Northland Branch

Northland Branch

Welcome to the NZAEE Northland branch page where you will find the latest Northland branch news. 

If you have any branch news or Northland Environmental events or dates you would like posted please contact the NZAEE office, email nzaeecontact@gmail.com.

To contact the branch directly, please contact: Sioux Campbell, scampbell@doc.govt.nz

Northland branch news - April 2009

Despite a decision at the last AGM to "wind down" a bit while attendance numbers are low, members were still keen to "do things" at our first informal get together in February.  So - we've decided to run a Green Drinks session (hosted by DOC) at the end of April with our new regional Enviroschools co-ordinator, Teresa Rudgely, talking about - no secrets here- Enviroschools!    While it might all seem terribly obvious to EE/ESF-minded folks, it's also obvious there are a lot of people in Northland who know nothing about Enviroschools, so time to enlighten them.

Thanks to the Northland Regional Council for taking the initiative to support Teresa (maybe our branch submission to the regional LTCCP last year helped after all ...) and to DOC Northland for putting some money in for the first time as well.

The Whitebait Connection programme (one of the programmes supported by the Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust) is also hosting a Northland freshwater information and education hui in April.  This follows an earlier hui hosted by NZAEE Northland in 2007 and will pick up and develop some of its outcomes.   Lack of information, knowledge and understanding of the significance of freshwater resources is an important issue around the region, so the hui is a very welcome initiative.  There has been a positive response to the invitations so far from many sectors - more to come in the next newsletter.

Sioux Campbell
Branch chair