The Kauri Rescue team were awarded a Judge's Commendation for the Rātā Award at the recent Love Your Place Awards hosted by Ecomatters and the Waitākere Ranges Local Board. The list of other groups in our category was immense and it was really inspiring to see so many people out there working so hard to protect the environment.
 
The citizens we work with, who are now playing instrumental roles in the running of the programme at the local level are the true winners of this award - particularly Dr Mels Barton and Ngaire Kingsbury and the many local ambassadors that are now enrolling in the programme and assisting with the monitoring and the promotion of the programme. 

Kauri Rescue is a model for successful community engagement and the award is recognition and endorsement of our collaborative approach and we are truely honoured to have received it.
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Photo below from left:  Dr Mels Barton, Kauri Rescue Junior Ambassador Thomas Forest Dawson and Ngaire Kingsbury collecting the award for the Kauri Rescue Team.

Download the latest newsletter to keep you up to date with our activities.

In this issue:
Programme Update
Matauranga Maori
Introducing our new kit coordinator
Soil Sampling - how we detect the presence of kauri dieback.

Kauri Rescue team members Dr Mels Barton and Dr Nick Waipara will be contributing to the talks being presented for Conservation Week at the Ellen Melville Centre.  Mels presents a talk on Monday September 17 and Nick on Friday September 21.  Download the the pdf below for details.

Check out the latest video on Kauri Rescue which Te Hiku Media developed following our Northland launch in October.

A great news story that provides useful information about Kauri Dieback and introduces Kauri Rescue.

​http://95bfm.com/bcast/saving-northlands-kauri-from-dieback

Tuesday, October 3 at 6 PM - 8 PM
Okara Park
51 Okara Drive, Whangarei, Northland 0110
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Join us for the launch of the Kauri Rescue project in Northland at Toll Stadium on Tuesday 3 October at 6pm. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Find out about this citizen science project working with landowners to treat their own sick kauri trees and save them from kauri dieback disease using both western science and matauranga Māori methods.

​Download our Press release about this launch

Dr Mels Barton talks about Kauri Rescue, how you can join the team and what you can do to limit the spread of dieback in our new video on Vimeo.  Check this out now

​Kauri Rescue will host a public hui in the Waiatarua Community Hall at 7pm on Thursday 31 August 2017 to support people living with kauri trees and enable those who don’t have their own kauri to help others keep their trees healthy.

Dr Nick Waipara will give practical advice on how to keep your kauri healthy, whether or not you have kauri dieback disease. Kauri Rescue Ambassadors Ngaire and Peter will also share their experience of treating their own trees with phosphite as part of the Kauri Rescue pilot trial.

​Our engagement with community has found that many people are unsure of how to determine if their trees are healthy and even if they are, people are unclear of how to care for their kauri to limit the risk of them being susceptible to dieback disease. This Hui will give you key information and valuable resources on how to care for kauri – your own or your neighbours.