Share a pre-meeting bring-your-own supper: a flask of hot drink, cup and a small plate of ‘nibbles’. Then listen to our speakers — limit 10 minutes / person. For a gold-coin koha, or even ‘folding money’, buy one or more of the books we put on display, and help build up the Jubilee Award Fund […]

Speakers: Lara Shepherd, Science Researcher, Te Papa and Leon Perrie, Botany Curator, Te Papa. Lord Howe Island is a small, remote, subtropical island between New Zealand and Australia that has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Despite its small size it has a wide diversity of habitats. Over 40% of its vascular plant […]

Speaker: Dr Debra Wotton – Director and Principal Ecologist, Moa’s Ark Research; Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury. Limestone outcrops in the eastern South Island are hotspots of native plant diversity, with many endemic herbs and a disproportionately high number of threatened species. Almost half of the specialist limestone taxa in the […]