Auckland

News - Upcoming and Recent Events - Past Events

A Rocha in Auckland: In August 2008, a number of A Rocha supporters met together to brainstorm and discuss the possible roles of A Rocha in the Auckland region. Subsequent to this meeting, an initiative group committee has been formed; this committee had its first meeting on 27th Sept 2008 and made some good progress. The next committee meeting will be in November.

With regard to practical conservation, the committee thinks it would be good to start by working alongside an existing conservation project. In particular, we are looking at the possibility of helping out with the 'Ark in the Park' in the Waitakere Ranges, as one of our group is very involved in this already through Forest and Bird.

News

Please click here (application/octet-stream, 70.1 kB, info) to download the latest newsletter sent to A Rocha supporters in the Auckland region.

Upcoming and Recent Events

For more information about upcoming events, please email us at new.zealand@arocha.org

Early 2010 - Celebration of International Year of Biodiversity. An opportunity to meet together to enjoy God’s creation, and to celebrate this special year.

Sat 17th Oct 2009 - Ark in the Park trip. We plan to help with baitlines - for more details, please click here (application/msword, 69.1 kB, info).

Past Events

June 2009 - World Environment Day Celebration. We celebrated World Environment Day on Saturday 6th June. We met at the Kodesh Christian Community in Avondale, starting at 9am to carry out some weeding and fertilising of the trees which were planted two years ago by Kodesh and A Rocha volunteers. We also started preparing an area for a community garden. After morning tea, we discussed with everyone the proposed objectives for an A Rocha group in Auckland.

Mar 2009 - "Global Warming: A Christian Response to a Burning Issue"

Christmas - Matuku Reserve

A Rocha supporters attended this public lecture presented by The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at The University of Cambridge, the School of Theology at the University of Auckland, and Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa. Guest speaker: Prof Robert White FRS, Professor of Geophysics, University of Cambridge. Also: Saturday 14th Mar 2009 (8:30 am - 6pm) - "Science and Religion in the 21st Century: Faith in Science, Science in Faith" Symposium. A programme (application/msword, 69.6 kB, info) is available. For more details on both of these events click here (application/octet-stream, 556.5 kB, info).

Dec 2008 - Christmas gathering.

This was an afternoon picnic at Matuku Reserve, which is a Forest and Bird Reserve in the Waitakere Ranges. 31 supporters of A Rocha gathered together, picnicing under a puriri tree. The guest speaker was National Trustee Richard Storey, who summarised the history and vision of A Rocha in New Zealand.

Oct 2008 - Field Trip to 'Ark in the Park', Waitakere Ranges.

Field Trip: Ark in the Park

Field Trip - Ark in the Park

We organised this field trip to find out more about Ark in the Park, with a view to working alongside this project. We were blessed with fine weather and had an excellent guide - very knowledgeable and passionate about the Waitakere ranges and a great teacher/communicator. Ark in the Park is impressive, but it was sad to see some kauri infected by fungus. A spray bottle with bleach will now be part of our kit for bush walks.

August 2008 - Hui.

A Rocha supporters in the Auckland region met at the end of August to "brainstorm" and discuss the possible roles and future of A Rocha in this region. Venue: Kodesh Christian Community. A future meeting is being planned - please contact us if you would like to be involved.

July 2007 - Kodesh Christian Community Planting Day, Auckland.

For more information about this planting day, please see Newsletter 4 in “News”.