Newsletters (Landnotes)

   
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Land Notes - Issue 24

October 2011

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Land Notes - Issue 23

April 2011

This issue includes:

  • Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust’s new book, to celebrate 10 years of protecting biodiversity ($20)
  • Summary of conservation achievements over 10 years
  • 2012 Tui & Friends Calendar ($18)
  • New jeweled gecko booklet (free)
  • Guided walks on 12 and 26 November, and 3 December 2011
  • Getting conservation value from pest control
  • Banks Peninsula bugs/invertebrates
  • Western Valley multiple owner covenant
  • Bellbird Bush covenant
  • Contacts list

This issue includes:

  • A new approach to conservation covenants
  • Letter to the editor
  • Sycamore-seize the moment
  • Restoration helpers, we need you
  • Wildside predator control success
  • Romancing the Tūi
  • The Mighty 7.1 and 6.3 earthquakes

   
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Land Notes - Issue 22

September 2010

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Land Notes - Issue 21

May 2010 

This issue includes:

  • Public biodiversity & private land conservation
  • The importance of thoughtful predator control
  • DOC Traps to be available at cost through BPCT
  • The Wildside Conservation Project
  • New Wildside Coodinator role
  • Panama Rock Open Day
  • The latest on lizards
  • Ferns of the Port Hills
  • Guided Walks:
  • October 2010 to April 2011
  • Misty Peaks, Akaroa
  • Panama Rock Le Bons Bay
  • Flea Bay/ Pohatu
  • Hinewai Reserve
  • Fishermans Bay
  • Omahu Bush, Port Hills
  • Kereru count and peninsula walk
  • Kotare Vale, Puaha Valley
  • Freshwater fish
  • Te Oka Reserve

This issue includes:

  • Tūī update
  • Banks Peninsula's Special Plants
  • Open space covenants
  • Every time glorious
  • Landscapes change as we change
  • Bossu Road Ridge
  • Sooty shearwater/ titi update
   
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Land Notes - Issue 20

September 2009 

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Land Notes - Issue 19

May 2009 

This issue includes:

  • Kaituna Bush; Neighbours working together
  • Tui Monitoring
  • Natural History of Banks Peninsula
  • BP Biodiversity Workshop in Akaroa
  • Using natives as wind breaks
  • Wondrous Weta
  • Bird monitoring results

This issue includes:

  • Introducing Brooke Turner
  • Tūī homecoming, Radio Tracking & Tūī Tucker
  • Pest Control at Hinewai Reserve
  • Tūī capture on Maud Island
  • The treasures of Prices Valley
  • Outstanding Peninsula Places
  • A tale of two climbers
   
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Land Notes - Issue 18

September 2008 

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Land Notes - Issue 17

May 2008 

This issue includes:

  • Manaia Covenant, Okuti Valley
  • Prevention of Sheep Measles
  • Gorse Workshop
  • Guided Walks for tui project
  • Kowhai signals the arrival of spring
  • Old Man’s Beard (Clematis vitalba)
  • Banks Peninsula Bird Counts

This issue includes:

  • Return of the Tūi
  • Akaroa daisy (Celmisia mackaui)
  • The Novice Bird Counter
  • Risk of Tb Spread to Cattle from Seals
  • The Chilean flame creeper
  • Gorse Workshop
  • Restoration Group Update
  • Sightings wanted! Feral goats,deer & pigs
  • Is Bracken all bad?
   
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Land Notes - Issue 15

April 2007 

 

This issue includes:

  • Kenneth Bush Covenant – Kotare Vale
  • Off to the Duvauchelle and Little River Shows
  • Inwood’s Covenant
  • Tui restoration update
  • Restoration Group; Operation Boxthorn
  • Coordinator’s corner
  • Penguin protectors
  • Feral goats going, going,
  • The Great Possum Hunt