Events

Upcoming Events

May 30 to June 2, 2008 - "Eden to Aotearoa: From Biblical Hope to Ecological Action"

This will be ARANZ's first national conference. For more information and registration forms, see "Conferences".

Palmerston North Initiative Group

7 June 2008, Tree planting near Palmerston North, followed by Planters Party

For further information, please contact John Flenley (phone 06-357 6844)

Christchurch Initiative Group

Saturday 17 May from 2-4pm, "Autumn release of trees" at Sign of the Bellbird.

This is a tidy up of grass/weeds around recently planted trees. We need half a dozen more volunteers. Please bring a drink, gloves and a beanie. It would be helpful to know who is thinking of coming so we can try to car pool to reduce our carbon footprint. For further information, please phone Mark (03-980 5002).

Past Events

April 2008 - Seed collection and seed sowing (Palmerston North Group Initiative Group)
January 2008 - Parachute Music Festival, Hamilton

Parachute 2008

Parachute is a 3-day music festival held annually, which showcases New Zealand and international Christian music. Attendance at the festival is approximately 30,000 people. This was a great weekend, and very very hot and sunny! We met a bunch of interested people who chatted with us (and signed up about 63 supporters). There were many absolutely amazing people who were excited to hear about A Rocha and who are doing some great things themselves already too... so it was rewarding work and we hope to build on the connections we made.

September 2007 - St James Gully Restoration Planting Day, Hamilton
July 2007 - Kodesh Christian Community Planting Day, Auckland

For more information, see Newsletter 4 in “News”.

July 2007 - Native Seedling Planting Day, Ngahere Park, Palmerston North

For more information, see Newsletter 4 in “News”.

June 2007 - Native Plant Seed Collection, Palmerston North

For more information, see Newsletter 4 in “News”.

May 2007 - Environmental Colloquium, Bible College of New Zealand, Auckland

For more information, see "Conferences"

January 2007 - Parachute Music Festival, Hamilton

The A Rocha Aotearoa New Zealand Initiative Group had an information stall at the Parachute Music Festival for the first time in 2007. The weather was hot, the work exhausting, but ever to rewarding... we talked and talked and talked to so many people - youngsters, teenagers, and the young at heart... for 2 half days and 2 full days from 8:30 in the morning until 10 at night! Wow!

For further information, see Newsletter 2 in "News"

December 2006 - Maungatautari Ecological Island working day

Working day at Maungatautari Ecological Island

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, see Newsletter 1 in “News”.