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What We Do
We believe that everyone can make a difference to the health of our environment and society. Through our projects, volunteers can get involved by planting and caring for native trees, eradicating pests and weeds, protecting threatened species, and helping to make our natural spaces accessible to everyone. Our projects focus on restoring our wild places and protecting this beautiful natural environment we are lucky enough to call home. Here are just some of our achievements since 2006:
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Latest News
Forest at the Heart of Wellington grand finale event
On Saturday, 18th September, our Wellington team had over 60 volunteers join us for a final planting day to celebrate the completion of our Forest at the Heart of Wellington project. It was a great celebration of all of the work that has gone in to planting 100,000 trees over the last six decades in Wellington, […]
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Dallington Landing Red Zone Planting Project
Dallington Landing, Rotary Forest of Peace and Remembrance Christchurch’s red zone, formerly residential housing, and vacant space since the February 2011 earthquake is being replanted in natives as part of the Rotary Forests of Peace and Remembrance. This is a New Zealand wide project to celebrate the centenary of the Rotary Foundation and aims to establish 100 forests throughout the country over the next decade. The forests are intended to tackle climate change through the reestablishment of native eco systems in as many communities as possible around […]
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Task Force Green
Following significant flooding resulting from a one in a 100 year rain event in Canterbury in late May, the government has offered assistance to affected farmers and landowners through their Enhanced Taskforce Green (ETFG) programme, and CVNZ have come on board to help out. ETFG is administered by the Ministry for Social Development (MSD) and is a relief programme that can be instigated when there is a […]
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CVNZ Record Tree Planting for World Environment Day
Last week, on Friday 4th June, CVNZ ran our fifth annual Corporate Tree Planting Challenge to celebrate World Environment Day and it was (mostly) a huge success. Heavy rains and flooding meant our Christchurch event was postponed but the sun came out in Auckland and Wellington. Our Christchurch event took place on a slightly later date […]
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Launch of the Papakura Stream Restoration Project
This week we launched our newest initiative, The Papakura Stream Restoration Project, at Brookby Wildlife Habitat. Sixty volunteers from Mondelez New Zealand, Fonterra Brands, Aleph Beauty, Million Metres Streams and community volunteers joined us for the day to plant 2,000 native trees and wetland grasses in a kahikatea wetland that runs into the stream. We […]
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Mondelez and CVNZ partner to protect the Papakura Stream
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand is proud to announce Mondelez New Zealand as the newest partner of our Papakura Stream Restoration Project. Mondelez NZ sponsorship will fund the installation of fence posts made by Future Posts from all the soft plastic that you drop off to your supermarket collection points for recycling. Fencing waterways is vital to […]
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Conservation Volunteers respectfully acknowledges tangata whenua, their rich and dynamic culture and their ongoing affinity and cultural obligations within Aotearoa. As a people Māori are intrinsically linked with the natural world and the well-being of natural resources within their region is the basis of their mana. We pay our respect to tangata whenua and their culture, and to elders both past and present.