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Open Space^TM magazine

Check out the QEII Open Space magazine, Nov 2009 (PDF 1.7MB)

Download November 2009 articles:

3,000th QEII covenant

Safeguarding dryland grey scrub in North Canterbury

QEII covenants on council-held land

Seabirds: The impact of rats

Restoring the hills on Mangarara Station

Find out more about Open Space magazine ....

Next issue: Late March 2010

QEII Partnerships

• Landcare Research
• New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust
• New Zealand Historic Places Trust
• Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand

Landcare Research

Research programme: Sustaining and Restoring Biodiversity

QEII is one of the project partners in the Landcare Research programme Sustaining and Restoring Biodiversity with representation by the Chief Executive on the Governance Board.

The research is publicly funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.

For more about outcomes of the research ....

Research programme:  Restoring resilience of indigenous forest fragments

A group of researchers from Landcare Research, Waikato, Canterbury and Massey Universities, and AgResearch has been exploring new detail about what happens when forest fragments are fenced against stock and have key pests (ship rats and possums) controlled.

Working in 53 forest patches in the Waikato, the team has measured the state of key ecological processes such as litter decomposition, plant regeneration and invertebrate abundance when fragments have been fenced for varying periods of time, and when pests are controlled.

They have also measured ship rat abundance in fenced and unfenced fragments, tested to see if rats reinvade isolated fragments after rats are eradicated, and measured bird nesting success in and out of pest-managed blocks.

The work started in March 2007; the first scientific papers started emerging in December 2008, and by June 2009 when funding ceases, the team will have developed simple ways for end-users like QEII National Trust, DoC, and Regional and District Councils to use this research to better plan fragment management and administration.

For more information email John Innes

New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust

A partnership has been developed between QEII and the New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust which operates the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

This is a robust, peer reviewed process with the aim of promoting and recognising sustainable and profitable farming practice.

QEII covenantors are frequent winners of Ballance Farm Environment Awards, showing how environmental values can be restored and enhanced while displaying that profitability need not be compromised.

For QEII winners in 2009, see page 22 of Open Space Issue 76 (PDF, 2.4MB).

Find out about entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards 2010 ...

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

QEII works closely with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on managing archaeological sites on land protected with QEII covenants.

See the New Zealand Historic Places Trust website for Legal Protection of Archaeological Sites and for more information on Archaeological Sites

For more about QEII covenants protecting archaeological sites

Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand

QEII is an associate member of the Fencing Contractors Association of New Zealand.

The aim of the association is to increase the profile of fencing as a recognised profession and encourage a high level of workmanship through training and standards.

Phone 0508 4 FCANZ (0508 4 32269)

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