Christchurch Conservation

Christchurch — The Papanui Innes Community Board today hosted community groups and local school students for the first stage of an historic replanting in Papanui.

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Christchurch — Canterbury Museum will open a major international touring exhibition telling the epic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole next month.

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Christchurch — Christchurch’s much-loved visitors, the bar-tailed Godwits, have at last returned to Christchurch bringing with them a sense of hope and a taste of spring.

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Christchurch — US building restoration expert Professor Marcus Brandt is returning to Christchurch next week to continue his advocacy for a wooden spire for the city’s Anglican cathedral.

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Christchurch — Council has approved a Heritage Incentive Grant of up to $884,750 for conservation and maintenance work for the former Woods Brothers’ Flour Mill buildings in Addington.

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Christchurch — Tomorrow morning another Canterbury resident will move out of town.

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Christchurch — Do you want to find out more about godwits, those amazing birds that undertake the lengthy journey from Christchurch to Alaska and back each year? To celebrate this year’s departure of the birds, godwits expert Keith Woodley will address bird lovers at the annual Farewell to the Godwits (Kuaka) event at the Southshore Spit on Sunday.

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Christchurch — Staff at a Christchurch, New Zealand, wildlife park are mourning the loss of the "Christmas miracle" kiwi chick that they'd painstakingly hatched and hand-reared for the past three weeks.

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Christchurch — A Christmas miracle is being celebrated in New Zealand with the arrival of a very special kiwi chick.

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Christchurch — About 40 Bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) arrived on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary yesterday afternoon, to be followed today and over the next few weeks by up to 2000 more.

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Christchurch — The Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), farewelled by Christchurch in March, is due to arrive back to the Avon-Heathcote Estuary within the next two weeks.

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Christchurch — Beaver Tree Services are shedding light on the Auckland Island pigs at Christchurch’s Willowbank Reserved later this week.

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Christchurch — The Christ Church Cathedral bells are set to peal at noon today to welcome the earlier than anticipated arrival of the godwits.

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Christchurch — The birds of Travis Wetland in Christchurch - some of them very rare - are under threat from cats hunting all the way into the central wetland.

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