VISIT US THIS LONG WEEKEND! Finally the sun looks like its back to greet us this weekend and we are celebrating for all sorts of reasons with extra activities on offer for you to enjoy. With the support of our volunteers we are running a sausage sizzle fundraiser on all 3 days from 10am – 1:30pm. All sausages will [...]
Leon Perrie - Curator of Botany at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Leon's research is focused on the taxonomy and evolutionary history of New Zealand’s ferns and lycophytes, and he has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. A current priority is supporting the completion of the fern and lycophyte chapters for the electronic Flora of New Zealand. He also [...]
Mike Joy - Victoria University of Wellington Mike will be speaking on the subject of 'Source water: the crucial missing 'water' from the new Taumata Arowai Three Waters legislation. Mike has developed bioassessment tools used by many Regional Councils and consultants and has published scientific papers in many fields from artificial intelligence and data mining, freshwater fish ecology, freshwater bioassessment [...]
Alison Ballance - Broadcaster and writer, Nelson (Te Apārangi Sponsored Speaker) Alison Ballance shares stories of her favourite wildlife encounters. She sheds light on her 35-year association with kākāpō, discovers the amazing journeys of New Zealand’s great white sharks and charts the ups and downs of the long-running conservation effort to save takahe. Alison is a freelance natural history writer [...]
9 - 24 July 2022 - 10am - 5pm Find the locations of 8 Golden Kiwi Eggs hidden in the reserve and answer the questions to enter our weekly prize draw to win a Friends of Ngā Manu Family Membership ($100 value and valid for 12 months). A winner will be drawn at random on Sunday 17th July & [...]
Harriet Bright will be familiar to many, known artist residing on the Kapiti Coast and a facilitator and coordinator for school projects with Mahara Gallery & Ngā Manu. We are thrilled to have her running this very limited workshop. This day of nature and art will be a combination of drawing games with a nature focus. This workshop is strictly [...]
Manpreet Dhami - Manaaki Whenua, Lincoln (Te Apārangi Sponsored Speaker) Manpreet Dhami is a Senior Scientist at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research and a microbial ecologist by training. She is interested in how species interact and evolve together through symbiosis, coexistence and competition. She performs experimental research to assess the contributions of microbial interactions to host health and function in systems [...]
Join us at Ngā Manu Nature Reserve for Conservation Week 2022 from 5-11th September and take action for nature We're excited to present a week full of conservation, discovery and family fun including an after-school conservation club and a weekend full of ranger talks to introduce some of our wonderful reptiles and birds., There's demonstrations on organic waste and pest [...]
We are delighted to offer a one-off puppet show during October School Holidays at Nga Manu Nature Reserve. Once in a Full Moon is a story set one evening deep in the New Zealand bush, where a lonely kiwi looks up at the sky and mistakes the full moon for a giant egg. Can kiwis fly? Can the moon fall [...]
