Does anyone have any foldable or stackable chairs that are needing a new home? We're looking for about 20 chairs for our monthly community meetings. We're hoping someone out there can help us out!

Happy Easter from Aroha Kaikorai Valley! We hope you enjoy lots of Easter Eggs. It's our hope that we enhance Kaikorai Valley enough to host these types of eggs - these are rifleman titipounamu eggs with their intricate nests. They weight 1.5g and the adult birds reach 6g. https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/rifleman

Here are the results of our AKV autumn birdcount. We had one observer see a lot of red-billed gulls! It was nice to see several Tūī and Bellbird too. Thanks to the 5 people who participated, and to Anja for making this lovely graph for us! Our next 5-minute birdcount is on 13 July 2025.

We've got a lot going on at AKV over the next few days! You're invited to join us for three events: 1. Thursday 10 April, 5.30pm-6.30pm, at Turboweb. Josh Smith is going to talk to us about the air quality project. He's put sensors around Kaikorai Valley and they're detecting a lot of interesting information! RSVP here: https://akv.nz/events/akv-april-meeting-air-quality#rsvp 2. Saturday 12 April, 2pm-2.30pm, Beth is going to be at the AKV shed to offer some practice runs and support for doing 5-minute bird counts. Come and learn tips on how to ID the birds around you, and to pop your counts into the trap.nz app. 3. Sunday 13 April, 10am-10.05am (or thereabouts). We need your help to count all the birds you see and hear in 5 minutes, and add them to the trap.nz app. Here's how to set up a bird count station at your house. https://help.trap.nz/books/trapnz-comprehensive-user-guide/page/setting-up-a-bird-count-monitoring-station . Any problems, we'll be available to help at the Thursday meeting, or come and see Beth on Saturday! Hope to see you this week 😃

Big shoutout to the team at Unifone who are hosting one of our air quality monitors. We're grateful to partner with you on this exciting project. To learn more about the air quality monitoring in Kaikorai Valley, come along to our April meeting, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Thursday 10 April. https://akv.nz/events

Join us this month for a community catch-up and to meet some awesome people! We’ll have Josh Smith joining us to introduce us to the air quality project. Come and learn about what’s in the Kaikorai Valley air that we’re putting into our lungs! Meet in the Turboweb building by the AKV shed, 381 Kaikorai Valley Road. We also have a few other AKV notices to share. All are welcome to come and join us! RSVP at www.akv.nz/events

💥Just Sayin💥 👍We have cracked 300 Possums on the score board. While we are not really excited to celebrate the death of any animal, what we can celebrate is the the amount of damage NOT being done to our environment. 🧮300 Possums each eat 300 to 400 grams of foliage per night. That's approx 90kg each night or 32,850kg of foliage per year! 🆕And we are just getting started! If you want to join our crew and be part of something amazing, check out our website and put your hand up to volunteer. www.akv.nz

Aroha Kaikorai Valley has been working on building a network of air quality monitors throughout Kaikorai Valley. Since last year, Josh has been collaborating with keen residents and businesses to host air quality monitors kindly supplied by AirGradient. This will help us to become aware of issues impacting the air we breathe in Kaikorai Valley. We're all affected by air pollution, whether we realise it or not. We’re still looking for more businesses & residents to host monitors, so please get in touch if you're keen to take part in this exciting initiative. Read more about what we’re doing here: https://akv.nz/info/air