Sustainable solutions: The Zoo wants your green waste

Auckland Zoo has over 1000 mouths to it is a suitable variety for the feed – from big cats to baboons, tīeke animals to eat), your contact to tuatara, capybara to cotton tops, information and whether you and providing for all these varied diets, are able to deliver. All plants including top quality meat, veggies, must be pesticide free. fruits and insects, is one of the Zoo’s Donations for animal most essential and necessary expenses. food

For example, red panda love bamboo Another way you can and eat at least 60 canes per week help the Zoo nourish their but they are fussy, preferring only the animals is through a financial Phyllostachs aurea variety. Once stripped donation, the information of the leaves the canes may be passed to can be found here at https:// capybara to remove all the branches. Rukiya the giraffe enjoying a feed of willow foliage. © Auckland Zoo. www.aucklandzoo.co.nz/get-

Foliage food is referred to as browse involved/donate-zoo-diets. and the browse team are always on the lookout for more foliage. This could be a good gift idea for an animal lover too.

In addition to edible browse, foliage is also used by the Zoo for Your donation could provide a hunk of juicy meat for the carnivores decoration, for hides, nests, visual barriers, enrichment, and sacrificial or some locusts for the precious primates. The options are shown on browse (e.g. to stop parrots destroying their enclosure). Thick branches the link but range from $10 to provide a red panda with its weekly or logs are essential for tooth wear to limit excessive tooth growth in requirement of kiwifruit and pear through to $200 to feed the Asian animals such as capybara, agouti, and porcupine. And bare branches of elephants their weekly diet of apples, bananas, oranges, celery and various diameters are needed for perches for parrots of various sizes. watermelon. The green edible browse the Zoo is looking for at this time of year includes: ZOODOO for your Garden • Mulberry • Honey locust The Zoo makes its ZOODOO compost, or a planter mix or rose mulch, • Hibiscus in flower • Pseudopanax available for sale. 40-litre bags cost $7.90 each with a 10-bag minimum • Banana palm • Any kind of ficus sale for this price. There is free home delivery for bagged products as • Puka • Liquid amber far out as Swanson, Waiatarua and Laingholm. Judging by the online • Poplar • Monstera testimonials, the compost is highly-rated and the delivery service

Foliage is not limited to these trees and shrubs, and if you are exemplary. All the proceeds from sales of ZOODOO go towards Working clearing out your vegetable garden, herbs and greens are also on the to Prevent Suicide. Visit https://zoodoo.co.nz/product-category/shop/ Zoo’s wish list. auckland/ for more information.

They are grateful if donated browse can be delivered, however this needs to be discussed in advance as they don’t want unauthorised deliveries.

If there is a reasonable amount of greenery, the browse team from Auckland Zoo will call by and collect. They can be contacted at browse@aucklandzoo.co.nz. They are more interested in an ongoing supply than unmanageable amounts but touch base and they’ll let you know what they can use. As hundreds of trees are currently being felled for property development, it’s good to know that some of them could be used to feed or care for animals. The browse team has already been utilising foliage from former Housing New Zealand properties where houses have been removed or demolished for new developments.

If you have branches or vegetation on the Zoo’s wish list or are clearing a patch of noxious ginger plant, send an email to browse@ aucklandzoo.co.nz with a photo of the plant (it’s the best way to tell if STIHL RE 90 ELECTRIC WAT $295 ER BLAST FREE PATIO ER STIHL MS 180 16" PETROL CHAINSAW $425 FREE CHAIN LOOPS x2

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