Waikato Past Events - 2008

Dec 2008 - 'Trees at the Meteor' at The Meteor, the steps to St Peter's Cathedral, and St Peter's Cathedral, Hamilton. For the past 5 years, Hamilton has hosted an Easter art festival called 'Stations of the Cross' (which in 2008 attracted 3500 people to the Hamilton Botanic Gardens). This December, for the first time, there was 'Trees at the Meteor': an installation based around an art competition

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Nov 2008 - Meeting at Hamilton Environment Centre, Hamilton. Agenda: 4 pm onwards - Cards and plant potting ...7 pm - "Trees" project, plus other thoughts and brainstorming…

Oct 2008 - Meeting. Topics discussed included: "Trees at the Meteor" event; esentation by Allan Turner of Waikato District CouncilTe Ra Tuhonohono; a presentation about SOAP (Social considerations, Opportunities, Administrative issues, Practical tasks); options for A Rocha projects in the Waikato.

Aug 2008 (9.30am) - Planting day, St James Gully Restoration.

Aug 2008 - Hui. It was great to reconnect, share and reflect about GOD’s wonderful creation and chat about what we would like to achieve over the next year.  If you missed it, another meeting will be planned for next month – we’d love to get to know you, so watch this space!

July 2008 - Clearing day, St James Gully Restoration.

July 2008 - Raglan Hui.

Waikato Past Events - 2007 & 2006

September 2007 - St James Gully Restoration Planting Day, Hamilton.

December 2006 - Maungatautari Ecological Island working day.

Maungatautari Ecological Island is a forested volcanic cone, and aims to be New Zealand's largest "mainland island" - an area completely surrounded by predator-proof fencing to enable the re-establishment of native bird species that in other places have been decimated by introduced mammalian pests such as rodents, stoats and weasels.

9 volunteers associated with the A Rocha Aotearoa New Zealand Initiative Group participated in a weed eradication working day on 2 December. We strongly agree with the A Rocha emphases on practical conservation and working in partnership with other organisations, and organised the working day to start contributing something practical to a conservation project while we are still in the “vision-forming” stages… and also to get to know and be inspired by an existing project.

For more information about this working day, see Newsletter 1 in “News”.

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