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...
by BFTAdmin | Oct 9, 2018 | awards, News
John Sumich was the deserving winner of the “Kahikatea” award, for an outstanding individual volunteer taking action on a local environmental issue. As John is tackling all the environmental issues in one, with his “From the Ridges to the Sea”...
by BFTAdmin | Oct 8, 2018 | Barn, News
In between the days John Sumich is running his practice as doctor, he comes to Matuku Link to build the barn… and do loads of other jobs. The past weeks he has been using the materials supplied at ‘mates rates’ by Placemakers in Cook Street (thank...
by BFTAdmin | Sep 21, 2018 | awards, News
We thought being a finalist for the ‘Restoration’ category of the inaugural Mayoral Conservation Awards was already a great effort and quite an achievement. The other finalists in this category were: Restoration of Mangemangeroa Reserve Tararata stream...
by BFTAdmin | Sep 10, 2018 | groups, News
Ricoh was one of the funders earlier this year for our “Million Metres Streamside Restoration” project, and came last week to help us plant the trees that they helped fundraise for. For of us, Helen from Ricoh, Alaina and Georgie from Million Metres and...
by BFTAdmin | Sep 10, 2018 | Barn, News
The fibrolite as cladding might have been a good idea 40-odd years ago, it definitely isn’t a good one now. Fibrolite contains asbestos fibers which could cause a specifically nasty kind of lung cancer. It usually takes a decade or more to develop, which led to...
by BFTAdmin | Aug 21, 2018 | News
A great working bee was had on Sunday 19th of August, with such good weather people were stripping down to t-shirts and shorts! The non-native willows from the neighbours, shading out our planting areas, got a good haircut by Geoff, who had a great time with his new...
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