#otautahi — Public Fediverse posts

"Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park says it needs to raise $4.1 million this financial year or its cash reserves will run dry by next March."

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361078735/orana-park-dire-financial-strife-beloved-zoo-has-plan

"As Orana's CEO, Rachel Haydon says, "You can't mothball a giraffe", so while we activate our recovery plan we urgently need help from our community to 'bridge the gap' in our funding requirements."

#Aotearoa #Ōtautahi #OranaPark #GiveALittle #Fundraising

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/orana-wildlife-park-recovery-plan

"Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park says it needs to raise $4.1 million this financial year or its cash reserves will run dry by next March."

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361078735/orana-park-dire-financial-strife-beloved-zoo-has-plan

"As Orana's CEO, Rachel Haydon says, "You can't mothball a giraffe", so while we activate our recovery plan we urgently need help from our community to 'bridge the gap' in our funding requirements."

#Aotearoa #Ōtautahi #OranaPark #GiveALittle #Fundraising

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/orana-wildlife-park-recovery-plan

"Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park says it needs to raise $4.1 million this financial year or its cash reserves will run dry by next March."

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361078735/orana-park-dire-financial-strife-beloved-zoo-has-plan

"As Orana's CEO, Rachel Haydon says, "You can't mothball a giraffe", so while we activate our recovery plan we urgently need help from our community to 'bridge the gap' in our funding requirements."

#Aotearoa #Ōtautahi #OranaPark #GiveALittle #Fundraising

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/orana-wildlife-park-recovery-plan

"Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park says it needs to raise $4.1 million this financial year or its cash reserves will run dry by next March."

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361078735/orana-park-dire-financial-strife-beloved-zoo-has-plan

"As Orana's CEO, Rachel Haydon says, "You can't mothball a giraffe", so while we activate our recovery plan we urgently need help from our community to 'bridge the gap' in our funding requirements."

#Aotearoa #Ōtautahi #OranaPark #GiveALittle #Fundraising

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/orana-wildlife-park-recovery-plan

One of the sites at Travis Wetland where we set up our invertebrate sampling yesterday was in the new southern woods.

I helped with a planting day for this back in 2014, when it was still a wet field. Now, it feels like a real forest, with a canopy well above my head and lots of wild seedlings scattered about underneath. It's amazing how quickly trees grow when the ground is always wet.

Here are two photos of the same part of the wetland in September 2014, when trees were being planted, and now. It's like magic!

Many of the trees planted here were sourced from Pūtaringamotu, Riccarton Bush, the old growth fragment of kahikatea swamp forest in central Christchurch. Pūtaringamotu is a much drier site than it was when the city was founded so it's fantastic to see a new swamp forest emerging.

(Now we just need to rein in our carbon emissions to stop the impending sea level rise that will otherwise submerge all these sites in a few centuries.)

#UrbanEcology #ForestRestoration #wetland #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nature

The kōwhai trees are in fabulous full bloom across Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ. They're blooming about a month late this year and are making up for that with a huge number of flowers.

That's making the korimako and kererū in the Cashmere hills happy. The korimako are pollinating the kōwhai flowers, which I guess also makes the kōwhai happy, to the extent that a kōwhai tree can be happy. The kererū, on the other hand, are eating the kowhai's flowers and young leaves.

korimako: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315198237
kererū: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/315196715

#NZ #nature #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #birds #pollination #herbivory #Anthornis #Hemiphaga #kererū #korimako