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Published: 24 April, 2019

Whakatū Marae

Kaumātua Flats

Tēnā koutou katoa

 

Whakatū Marae Committee Inc. wish to advise that applications are now being accepted for consideration to occupy a 1 bedroom Kaumatua flat situated on the marae.

 

An application form and policy regarding eligibility and conditions of occupation are attached. Applications can be forwarded to the Chairperson, Whakatū Marae Committee Inc, PO Box 124, Nelson 7040 or to the Kaiwhakahaere, Kim Ngawhika kim.ngawhika@whakatumarae.co.nz. Applications close 14th of May 2019.

 

We would very much appreciate it if you could please distribute this email to your whanau members.

 

Whakatū Marae Eligibility Conditions Kaumatua Policy - (578 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file) »

Whakatū Marae Application for Kaumatua Whare 2019 - (21 KB unknown) »

Published: 16 April, 2019

Hands on Discovery

At Marlborough Museum

26 Arthur Baker Place

1 p.m. Wednesday 24 April 2019

 

Family friendly Tour and Exploration of Artefacts with Logan Coote, Marlborough Regional Collections Manager.

“We will start with exploring the Museum Collections and have some hands-on activity fun for kids of all ages.”

 

ALL WELCOME Bookings Essential Limited Places

Book in by end of Monday 22 April

 

Marlborough Museum

578 1712

info@marlboroughmuseum.org.

Hands on Discovery Hands On Discovery - (349 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF file) »

Published: 16 April, 2019

Nelson City Council

Nelson Nature Fix

16 April 2019

After a break over the summer, welcome to the first 2019 Nelson Nature Fix - a regular snippet about Nelson's natural environment, and what we can do to look after it.  If you know anyone who you think might enjoy getting a regular nature fix, please pass this on and encourage them to sign up. You can read back issues here.
 

Along came a spider.....

The infamous katipo (Latrodectus katipo) spider is an endangered native species and one of our threatened coastal species. It is estimated that there are only a few thousand katipo left making it rarer than some species of kiwi.  

 

 

 

This species is at risk of extinction and is in decline throughout NZ. In 2002, there were only 26 populations known in the whole of New Zealand, including a couple of sites in the Nelson region.
 
The main factors contributing to its decline are loss of habitat and declining quality of the remaining habitat. Katipo live among sand dunes, much of which has been modified for farming or urban development. Invasive plants like marram have also led to the decline of suitable habitat.
 
The name katipo is from the Māori katipō, meaning "night-stinger". It is a small to medium-sized spider, with the female having a round black or brown pea-sized body. Red katipo females, found in the South Island and the lower half of the North Island, are always black, and their abdomen has a distinctive red stripe bordered in white.
 
Webs are typically established in low-growing dune plants and other vegetation such as the native pingao or driftwood. Katipo feed mainly on ground-dwelling insects, caught in an irregular tangled web spun amongst dune plants or other debris.
 
Katipo need fairly specific habitat to build their webs. Native pingao typically grows with bare patches of sand between the plants, leaving space for the spiders’ webs. Plants like marram, an invasive grass which was originally planted to stabilise dunes but is now considered a weed, grow in denser stands which make it difficult for the katipo to construct a web able to catch their insect prey.
 
Although they have a fearsome reputation, katipo bites are very rare. No deaths have been reported since 1901 and the most recent reported bites were to a Canadian tourist in 2010 and a kayaker in 2012. Bites are rare as the katipo is a shy, non-aggressive spider. The katipo will only bite as a last resort; if threatened the spider will usually fold up into a ball and drop to the ground or retreat to the nearest cover. They are more scared of you than you are of them!
 
What is Nelson Nature doing to help katipo? Helping to conserve precious dune habitat in Nelson, by protecting against weed invasion and by restoration planting.
 
What can you do to help katipo? Keep to marked trails in the dunes, get involved in dune restoration projects and don’t collect driftwood.
 
Keep yourself and the katipo safe by giving your clothes a good shake if you’ve left them lying on driftwood.

 

Published: 15 April, 2019

A Survey of Introduced Species Management

Tēnā koe,


How iwi perceive, use and manage introduced species is important for the environmental future of Aotearoa New Zealand.

 

We are surveying representatives from iwi, hapū, and marae communities to understand how they are relating to, preparing for, and/or responding to introduced species. This information will help us identify unique iwi, hapū, and marae community innovations, shortcomings in current approaches, and opportunities for linking tribal and non-tribal entities and organisations in regional introduced species management. We hope to gather information that may help iwi, hapū, and marae communities, their descendants, and their introduced species management partners in the future.

 

The survey will take around 10-20 minutes to complete.

 

Introduced Species Survey 2019

 

We hope that you will be willing to forward this survey link to people (whānau, tribal representatives, others involved in environmental management for iwi, hapū, and marae communities) who you think would share relevant information for a survey of this kind.  We hope to encourage as much engagement as possible in order to elicit rich information about our environmental management concerns, opportunities, and practices. All information will be shared with you in order to support your continued efforts.

 

We will not ask or record your name in this survey. We will record the name of the entity, organisation or community you are affiliated with in some way so that we can sort out geographic and cultural differences in our survey sample. We will keep the information collected for this study secure and confidential. 

Please email us if there is anything that you would like to know about this study.

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