Calendar of Events
Here are some of the key events that the Rimutaka Forest Park Charitable Trust and key partners are planning for the balance of 2009:
Upcoming Events
- Dog Training for Kiwi Avoidance
- Volunteer Days - Catchpool Restoration Project
- Kiwi Releases
- RFPT End of Year Barbeque
Hunting dogs and pets being prepared for their kiwi aversion training session with Jim Pottinger at the Catchpool Education Centre.
The next Kiwi Aversion Training weekend will occur in March, 2010. (More...)
Recent Events:
The Big Back Yard
22nd November - 2009
11.00am to 3.00pm
Lower Hutt i-SITE
25 Liangs Road,
Lower Hutt
Come and see the Trust's display and kiwi tracking demonstrations at this wonderful annual event attended by so many of our regional outdoors partners and associates. For more information, please visit this link.
2009 Stoat Trappers' Ball
RFPT Annual General Meeting
Come along to our AGM on Tuesday, 8th September and learn all about "The Possum that Ate New Zealand!"
That's the title of our guest speaker's presentation. Doug Eckery is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at Victoria University's School of Biological Science. He is keenly interested in the fertility control of introduced pest species, such as possums, which have had such a devastating impact on our native New Zealand forests.
The AGM starts at 7.00pm and will be held this year at the Wainuiomata Library, in Queen Street, Wainuiomata.
All welcome!
RFPT Kiwi Release - Wainuiomata Marae, Saturday 18th April, 2009Up to 16 adult North Island Brown Kiwi are being translocated from Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf to Rimutaka Forest Park just after Easter. They will arrive at the Marae on Saturday afternoon for a brief ceremony before being taken "up the hill" to their new home in the Rimutaka Forest Park.
If you'd like to see some real, live kiwi just before they are released, please come along to the Wainuiomata Marae. All welcome!
