Poll: If you had a bit of spare cash, would you 'buy' into a pest-free island?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Kiwis have always had a soft spot for our animal friends. With so many unique and quirky birds and marine species calling Aotearoa home, it’s only natural that we feel a deep drive to protect them 🐧🦭

These days, we’re getting pretty creative about how we do it too. The latest idea? You can actually buy a symbolic piece of one of New Zealand’s most remote islands as part of the Auckland Island Restoration Project.

If you had a bit of spare cash, would you 'buy' into the project?
And maybe the bigger question — should we be looking at doing the same kind of thing for wildlife refuges on our main islands too?

If you had a bit of spare cash, would you 'buy' into a pest-free island?

• Yes - restoration needs creativity
• No - Is this sensible?

Vote View Results

• 60.8% Yes - restoration needs creativity
  60.8% Complete
• 39.2% No - Is this sensible?
  39.2% Complete

556 votes

Highwic Sweetpea and Plant Fair Saturday 22 November | 10am - 2pm

Highwic from Highwic - Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

Sweetpea Garden Display – Plants for Sale - Cut Flowers - Vintage Garden Tools – Food – Coffee – Activities – Historic Pressed Plant Exhibition and Demonstration

The orchard garden will be in full bloom with a specially planted display of sweet peas, and a wide range of stallholders will be on site selling perennials, sweet peas, shrubs, climbers, grasses, heritage roses, natives, cut flowers, as well as vintage garden tools, flowerpots, and much more. Members of the botany team from Auckland Museum will be demonstrating how you can press your own plants.

Highwic house and the retail shop will also be open to visit, including a very special opportunity to view a display of pressed ferns and plants from the 1800s, brought out from the collection especially for the event. Also on display will be a personal collection of vintage watering cans.

Get creative and bring along a wonky vegetable creature, or make one on the day, for the 'Wonky Vegetable Creature Competition'.

See event page for more info.

Private Tutoring

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Interested people please message me and i’ll pass on her number.