by BFTAdmin | Dec 14, 2018 | groups, News
Sustainable Coastlines have been an amazing help to us this past year, and last Thursday wasn’t any different. After the introduction on the question “why we kill things here in New Zealand” talk by John Sumich, they were handed ‘sharks’,...
by BFTAdmin | Dec 14, 2018 | News
Our last working bee for 2018 was a Search and Rescue mission: some of the smaller plants, mainly manuka and kanuka planted by Ricoh in August, were getting smothered by dock. Armed with ‘sharks’, a very useful tool to slash through hands full of stems...
by BFTAdmin | Dec 9, 2018 | News
Volunteers are amazing, winning prizes is cool but we still need hard cash to succeed with all of our plans. Especially after the theft of our tools from the barn (which were uninsured and uninsurable because it is still a building site), we could do with donations of...
by BFTAdmin | Nov 20, 2018 | groups, News
The Portage and Waitakere Licencing Trusts did a large project two years ago, called “Million Dollar Mission”. A handful of charitable organisations, schools and clubs were selected, and Matuku Link was one of the. Everyone could vote once a day for their...
by BFTAdmin | Nov 20, 2018 | News
Getting up at ‘ridiculous-o-clock’ around 4.30 am on Saturday morning might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but last week we had a full contingent of volunteers and two Auckland Zoo staff rearing to go and do some surveying! Our aim was to hear puweto,...
by BFTAdmin | Nov 11, 2018 | News
With around 40 others we celebrated the second anniversary of Matuku Link. Funders, friends, family, volunteers: we all shared salads and sausages, went for a walk and tried to spot the bats but found glowworms instead! Most of our guests were suitably impressed with...
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