by BFTAdmin | May 14, 2019 | News
Looking after our forest and wetland at Matuku Link is hard work: baiting, trapping, weeding, planting… and with all of your help we’re doing it well. But in a mast year like this, extreme fruiting triggered by two warm winters, not only the birds are...
by BFTAdmin | May 14, 2019 | groups, News
Our volunteer Derek March led the Kiwi Conservation Club (www.kcc.org.nz), the junior conservationist group, on a trip through Matuku Link celebrating the life and love of eels. With KCC coordinators Jean and Raewyn, everyone enjoyed the talk, the walk, seeing and...
by BFTAdmin | May 8, 2019 | News
May Working Bee – trapping and baiting instructions Sunday 19th May – 10 am to 1 pm, followed by a shared lunch (optional but recommended!), 111 Bethells Road. As well as our regular Working Bee work (eating ice creams, having a natter, enjoying the...
by BFTAdmin | Apr 29, 2019 | News
This working bee Sunday started with fog, clouds and drizzle…and it is the last day of the school holidays, so I didn’t expect many helping hands. It turned out to be the opposite! Some Kiwi Conservation Club (www.kcc.org.nz) families, raising the next...
by BFTAdmin | Apr 19, 2019 | Barn, News
Thanks to an amazing grant of $40.000 from TTCF, The Trusts Community Foundation, we were able to get our roof replaced, just before the winter rains set in. A team of hard working men from ReelRoofing did a fine job installing the sheets of pre-painted corrugated...
by BFTAdmin | Apr 14, 2019 | News
Usually Ark in the Park and Forest & Bird Waitakere run ‘Nightwalks with Nature’ in summer near the Ark headquarters at the Cascades car park. But due to kauri dieback restrictions, that is out of bounds so they partnered up with Matuku Link to do...
by BFTAdmin | Apr 7, 2019 | News
As most people will be doing other things (Easter egg hunt?) on our usual Third Sunday of the month in April, we’re getting together on the Fourth Sunday in stead. So our next Working Bee will be on: Sunday 28th of April, from 10 am We hope to see you there to...
by BFTAdmin | Mar 13, 2019 | News
In an effort to control possums, trustee John Sumich and volunteer Anko placed self-resetting GoodNature A12 traps around the northern perimeter. It will help control the possums, as does our baiting regime and other traps we have out there. But having self-resetting...
by BFTAdmin | Mar 13, 2019 | Barn, News
The goal of repurposing the existing old barn into a Sustainable Wetland Education Centre is now much closer with $40,000 to be spend on a new roof, insulation and a new waste water treatment system. The removal of the asbesthos cladding from the barn was a big step...
by BFTAdmin | Feb 12, 2019 | News
It felt a bit like a birthday party…and in a way it was: World Wetlands Day at Matuku Link! With cakes, candles, ice creams, picnicking families and hungry eels, it definitely was a party like no other. A lot of people already knew each other from working bees...
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