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2012
Red Shirt Oracle Volunteers - 20 April 2012
Cannons Creek Pa Harakeke (Flax) Clean Up - 14 April 2012
'Before and After' - Guided Walk - 3 March 2012
'Meet at the Top' - Guided Walk - 19 February 2012
'The Real Cannons Creek' - Guided Walk - 29 January 2012
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2011
End of Year Picnic for Members and Supporters - 26 November 2011
Human Birds - 26 November 2011
Thanks, everyone! All this year's trees safe in the ground! - 21 November 2011
Bird Survey - 6 November 2011
Volunteers from CQ Hotel, Cuba Street - 26 October 2011
International Exchange Students from Victoria University - 1 October 2011
Love This Valley - It's Yours: Conservation Week ending 18 September 2011
Trees planted for 2011 - 13 September 2011
Contact Energy Volunteers - 15 July 2011
MetService Community Service Day at Maara Roa - 6 July 2011
Honda TreeFund Planting Day - 25 June 2011
Seed collecting (II) - 12 June 2011
Schools 10th year Adopt-a-Spot celebrations - 10 June 2011
Porirua College Senior Students study Cannons Creek Valley - 30 May 2011
Clearing Gorse for Tree Planting - 28 May 2011
Tree planting has started for the 2011 season - 14 May 2011
Telecom volunteers help with Tree Care - 5 May 2011
Seed collecting - April 2011
Lifetimers' Leisure Club - Guided Walk - 31 March 2011
The Three Cities Bush Corridor - Guided Walk - 6 March 2011
Seed Collecting - Andrew struck Gold! - February 2011
The Real Cannons Creek - Guided Walk - 29 January 2011
Kapi-Mana News :: Porirua station's fresh lick of paint - 18 January 2011
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2010
End of year picnic - 27 November 2010
'Cultivating Kids' - 25 November 2010
Neil Bellingham receives the Encore Community Leadership Award - 17 November 2010
Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist School students - 4 November 2010
ICONZ, Plimmerton Presbyterian Church - 1 November 2010
Wonderful help from Volunteers - 20 October 2010
Transmission Gully Motorway Plans - 9 October 2010
Maara Roa Bush Restoration celebrates 10 Years - 18 September 2010
September Planting - 8 September 2010
Submission to GW re new Regional Parks Network Management Plan - 24 August 2010
Bush Corridor Steering Group - 24 August 2010
August Planting - 23 August 2010
Human Birds Programme - Throwing the Seedballs - 4 July 2010
Day 2 of Planting of Trees donated by "Honda Cars" - 27 June 2010
Day 1 of Planting of Trees donated by "Honda Cars" - 26 June 2010
Kowhai Grove Tree Planting - 26 June 2010
Greater Wellington Regional Council's new Parks Management Plan - 15 & 17 June 2010
World Environment Day display at Bunnings Porirua - 5 June 2010
Bunnings Porirua volunteers join project - 3 June 2010
Adopt-A-Spot plantings - 10/11 June 2010
Weather problems - May/June 2010
MetService volunteers work on "Green Firebreak" - 12 May 2010
Sunday Afternoon Working Bees - April/May 2010
Pest Control - April 2010
Track Maintenance - April 2010
Human Birds Programme - 28 March 2010
The REAL Cannons Creek - Guided Walk - 27 March 2010
Kowhai Grove tidy-up - 24 March 2010
ACC Volunteers help with Tree Care - 11 March 2010
Welcome back, Bellbirds! - March 2010
Plant Nursery News - March 2010
Glenview Storage & Workshop Door repair fund - Door has now been repaired! - March 2010
The Three Cities Crossing - Guided Walk - 20 February 2010
Human Birds - 14 February 2010
Rare Rata Vine in Flower - 14 February 2010
The Maara Roa Loop - Guided Walk - 16 January 2010
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2009
Glenview Storage & Workshop Door repair fund - has now reached $330 of $450 needed
Last working day - 28 November 2009
Porirua Harbour and Catchment Study
Friends of Belmont Regional Park /
Friends of Maara Roa
guided walks - 21 November 2009
Flax planting - 14 November 2009
Tawa U3A Botanical Group walk - 12 October 2009
How do the seedlings get to planting sites? - 21 September 2009
Planting progress - 19 September 2009
Conservation Week - Transition Towns Expo (6-19 September 2009)
ACC Volunteers - 2 September 2009
Bank of New Zealand Volunteers - 13 August 2009
Wellington SPCA Volunteers - 8 August 2009
Corrections Dept. Porirua - 8 August 2009
Report of Annual General Meeting - 8 July 2009
Nature Walk signs - July 2009
Kiwi Conservation Club kids get planting - 27 June 2009
Greater Wellington staff, Friends and volunteers get 2009 plantings started - 20 June 2009
Matariki Week - 'Restoring the Bush in Cannons Creek' talk and display - 13 June 2009
Primary Schools' 'Adopt-A-Spot' site plantings - 8-12 June 2009
Brandon Intermediate School plantings for 2009
Arbor Day 2009 celebration - 6 June 2009
'Porirua Stream Catchment restoration' site visits - March 2009
Maara Roa Loop Walk - 8 February 2009
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2008
Rata Community Partnership Award: 5 November 2008
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2007
Plantings for 2007 - reporting November 2007
French Students - reporting November 2007
Tracks Meeting - 28 September 2007
Belmont Regional Park - review update
French Students - August 2007
Planting Heritage Trees - 18 August 2007
Kowhai Grove
Project K
Helpers from Leaders' Forum - 28 July 2007
AGM Report - 19 July 2007
French Agronomy students from Toulouse - June 2007
Adopt-a-Spot plantings for 2007
Donations from "Keep Porirua Beautiful"
Possum Bait "Lure" Message
Open Day at "Trees for Survival" native tree Nursery - 12 May 2007
Sylvia Jenkin - Wellingtonian of the Year 2006 Award for Community Service
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2006
Conservation Projects' Dress-down Demo - 12 August 2006
Conservation award for Neil Bellingham - 9 August 2006
ANZ Volunteers - 26 July 2006
Plimmerton Presbyterian Youth Group - 22 July 2006
AGM - 19 July 2006
Planting Plan for 2006
Human Birds
Grant from Mana Community Grants Foundation
Catchment Management submission presented to Porirua City Council
Storage and Workroom at Glenview School
Bird Survey
Human Birds - What are they? - 11 March 2006
The "Family picnic and fun" event - 28 January 2006
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2005
Bird Sightings reported - December 2005
Stream Management Plan - December 2005
Article about
Maara Roa
by Dave Hansford, in the Dominion Post - December 2005
Victory over the sale of Waitangirua Farm - reporting November 2005
We're not alone! People who have helped with Plantings - reporting November 2005
Plantings so far - August 2005
Nursery at Porirua College - August 2005
Green Firebreak planting - August 2005
Glow Worms - August 2005
Schools "adopt-a-spot" plantings - June 2005
Bird Survey to be done — May 2005
Potting On - May 2005
Progress - Sale of Landcorp Farm - April 2005
*Breaking News* - Sale of Landcorp Farm - February 2005
Pit Park People, Palmerston North
Guided Walks - reporting early February 2005
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2004
About ourselves - reporting Spring 2004
Wetland siltation - reporting Spring 2004
Plantings - reporting Spring 2004
Milk cartons and cardboard collars
Young and learning - 7 August 2004
School "adopt-a-spot" plantings 2004
School "adopt-a-spot" marker poles - July 2004
Plantings so far - June 2004
Opening of the new Takapu Track — 29 Feb 2004, 1.00pm
Website online — 1 February 2004
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