By good luck and good management, hundreds of volunteers planted 17,000 trees from the TOSSI nursery before the Covid Delta variant struck, locking Auckland down for seven weeks. Planting the steep and slippery slopes of Slip Gully was a challenge and after four seasons of dedicated volunteers struggling up and Read more…
Next year TOSSI reaches 20 years! It will be a time for celebration of all the achievements at Tāwharanui. A book was suggested to follow up on The First Ten Years written by Maggie Cornish, an important historical record of the establishment of the Sanctuary by a keen bunch of Read more…
Sometimes in the city, when you see everyone frenetically rushing about on their daily business, you wonder if we are ever going to reduce our emissions, save our planet and its wildlife. Then you come across people such as Brian Midgelow-Marsden of AECOM who was alongside me helping put out Read more…
Volunteers at Tāwharanui are fortunate to have the opportunity to keep in touch with the natural world and adapt to the changes. And changes in nature can happen quickly. So as well as monitoring bird species, volunteers are now monitoring cat traps. Twenty-five cat cages have beenset out around the Read more…
The world is a changed place with tragic losses of people and jobs, creating a reason for a reassessment of the way we live. Hopefully we can recalibrate on a global scale and make some corrections for a more sustainable future. Lockdowns gave people time to exercise and get back Read more…