Guidelines 368

• • Staying on track
  • Sweeping the tracks and boardwalks
  • Dawn Chorus event

Guidelines 367

• • Missing tracking cards
  • Good in the Hood – Coasties can you help support fundraising for us
  • Guides Day Out – updates and registration information
  • Chelsea Sugar visiting the motu
  • A guide’s story – leading a blind visitor

Guidelines 366

• • Ferry cancellation phone message
  • H&S Sign on sheets
  • Moana Rua track – finding your way

Guidelines 365

• • Some details for the Guides Day Out
  • Kawakawa Part 1
  • Birds:  The Formula 1 of the animal world
  • An interesting story from the field of Biomimicry.

Guidelines 364

• • Accessing your information in the SoTM subscriber system
  • The welcome return of a plant treasure
  • Moa and other big things
  • “Ask the experts” on speciation.

Guidelines 363

• • Health and Safety overview and update
  • The lanyards are here – where to find them and what they entail
  • Karamū, coffee and gardenia – all part of the large Coprosma genus

Guidelines 362

• • What’s new in the bum bags?
  • Three special hard ferns to look out for on the tracks
  • New polo shirts for volunteers and staff only
  • More opportunities to share your stories and your skills

Guidelines 361

• • Finalists for the 2024 Photographic Competition
  • Some of our beautiful winter flowers
  • What does the tuatara see with his third eye?
  • Launching the oral histories of Tiritiri Matangi

Guidelines 360

• • Changes to bunkhouse fees for SoTM members
  • Kōkako report for 2023-2024
  • ‘Ask the experts’ gets some expert answers about invertebrates from Chris Green

Guidelines 359

• • Managing ferry cancellations
  • The latest on the Kawerau track 
  • Homage to the nikau grove
  • An amazing picture of survival on the motu

Guidelines 358

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #358, 18th April

• New Wildlife Engagement Protocols for anyone who hasn’t read them yet
• Photographic Competition 2024 information – entries close 30 April
• What you can expect from John Sibley’s “Seagrass Meadows” Tiritiri Matangi talk on 29 April
• Summary of the 2023-24 kōkako breeding season.

Guidelines 357

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #357, 4th April

In this issue

• Health & Safety
• Wildlife protocols for guides
• Permanent bookings on ferries
• Flora news – puahou (five finger), ivy and karo
• Fauna – miromiro
• Ask the experts – pūriri grub

Guidelines 356

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #356, 21tst March 2024

In this issue

• Flora News – kahikatea
• Fauna News – Takahē update
• Concert
• Health and Safety
• Explore SuperGold card holder deal
• Events – Photography walks and Maritime Historic Day

Guidelines 355

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #355, 7th March 2024

In this issue

• Flora News – Inkweed and black nightshade
• Fauna News – Takahē translocation
• Swimmers’ itch
• Explore SuperGold card holder deal

Guidelines 354

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #354, 21st February 2024

In this issue

• Rangers’ contact details
• Magnify glasses
• Flora News – Kohekohe and pōhuehue
• Fauna News – Kōkako, pāteke, pūweto and kororā
• Ancient Tiritiri Matangi – Adventures in the deep

Guidelines 353

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #353, 7th February 2024

In this issue

• Guide development review
• Concert for the Birds – 9th March
• Houpara and elingamita
• Kōkako update
• Kākāriki nest updates
• Tiritiri Talk – The seagrass meadows of Tiritiri Matangi – John Sibley
• Ask the experts – kererū and takahē poo

Guidelines 352

Please click on the box to view Guidelines #352, 24 January 2024

In this issue

• protocols for wetapunga and tuatara encounters
• updates on hihi and kōkako
• essential read on the state of marine food in the Gulf
• check out the new format for the Guides section of the website