by | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
We were blessed with a weekend of warm and not too windy conditions. Group size was limited to 14 since house 3 was unavailable. We had a number of new people in the group – some of our stalwarts had already assisted with the petrel feeding and others had dropped out...
by | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Second working bee on the wetland – 15-17 February 2019 10 FOMI volunteers went over to the island on the Friday afternoon and went through Biosecurity and H&S before setting up in accommodation for the weekend. The aim for this month’s working bee was to...
by | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
News release from Friends of Mana Island, 11 February 2019 About 50 small seabird chicks from the Chatham Islands have been translocated by a volunteer conservation group to predator-free Mana Island, off the Porirua coast. It is the first stage of an ambitious...
by | Dec 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Getting a 4000 litre water tank onto the Charmaine Karol on the Friday afternoon was the first challenge of this trip. We managed it, just. It left no room for our volunteers to climb aboard via the back steps so it was up the side of the boat and through the front...
by | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
FOMI Work Trip 17-19 August, 2018 It was all hands on deck Saturday morning to move 80 waratahs, pitfall pails and cups, around 20m of downpipe pipe, cow’s ear tags + the tools needed to install all of these in place. Wheelbarrows were used top and bottom the hill....
