NZPCN Biennial conference Whangārei 2024 
The role of the NZPCN is to facilitate and advocate for plant conservation as well as providing information and support to plant conservation practitioners, landowners, and managers. Our biennial conferences are highly regarded as the best place to meet people who are passionate about plant conservation and to network and collaborate on shared issues and challenges. Our next conference will take place in Whangārei in October 2024 with the overal theme “Ka mua, ka muri – walking backwards into the future”. With this we will be able to celebrate 21 years of NZPCN, and hundreds of years of plant conservation in Aotearoa, and reflect on how all that has happened informs the future. Keynote speakers include:
- Geoff Davidson will be speaking about the Native Forest Restoration Trust’s legacy of protecting forests across the motu for more than 40 years
- Dean Baigent-Mercer will speak to work being done to protect Northland’s special native ecosystems.
- Lisa Forester will talk about some of the incredible work done in Northland to protect its unique wetland ecosystems
- Taoho Patuawa will speak about threatened native plant conservation
The essential conference details are listed below, and the conference booklet can be downloaded here.
Registration has now close.
Conference dates: 6 – 9 October 2024
Conference venue: Forum North, 7 Rust Avenue, Whangarei 0110
Conference theme: Ka mua, ka muri – walking backwards into the future
Timetable:
Sunday 6 October: workshops & registration; welcome event (evening)
Monday 7 October: talks/presentations
Tuesday 8 October: talks/presentations; 21st celebration dinner (evening)
Wednesday 9 October: field trips
Mix and Mingle (welcome event)
Come and catch up with fellow plant conservations and enjoy a drink and nibbles. Nibbles and first drink included, A cash bar will be available.
21st celebration dinner
Enjoy a night of celebration with a dinner celebrating 21 years of NZPCN. Reminisce on all the work that has been done and support future conservation with the charity auction. We will also use this as an opportunity to acknowledge our conservation heroes with the NZPCN Awards. Dinner and events included in the registration fee.
Workshops and field trips
More about conference workshops can be found here.
More about field trips can be found here.
Accommodation
There is a wide range of accommodation available within easy walking distance of the conference venue, ranging from Bed & Breakfasts through to large motels with in-house restaurants. The conference organisers make no endorsement of any establishment but some of the closer accommodation providers can be found here.
Conference organising committee:
- Taylor Davies-Colley
- Marley Ford
- Bill Campbell
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