Central Districts Poultry & Pigeon Club meeting
Club Meeting - Sunday 31 October being held at the Levin A&P grounds (in the Presidents Room)
meeting to start at Midday - All Welcome
Tea & Coffee provided, but please bring your own cup and snacks!
Guest Speaker - Sue Clarke - has extensive poultry knowledge from keeping her own small flock & training for 3 years in the UK, followed by 30+ years working in Levin breeding and hatching commercial Layers and Meat birds' Sue was also the co author to the very successful books "How to Care for you Poultry Volume 1 & 2" - there will be some copies available at the meeting.
Sue will be talking about preparing your birds for breeding and incubating their eggs
If you have any questions you'd like to ask, please email on cd.national.2020@gmail.com and we'll pass onto Sue so she can do her research in advance.
the Committee meeting will start after the presentation, at around 2pm
at Level 2 we'll need to be wearing masks - and we won't be able to share food, but fingers crossed we're at Level 1 by then
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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