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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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Have your say on the Papakura Stream

Conservation Volunteers New Zealand is currently working on an environmental initiative, The Papakura Stream Landowner Engagement Survey, and we would love to invite landowners and businesses situated along the streamside and in the catchment to have their say. The purpose of this survey is to engage with residents, mana whenua, businesses, landowners and industry along […]
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Join our Summer Volunteering Programme

Planning your Summer Holiday and wanting to do something different and meaningful this year? Why not join our Summer Volunteering Getaway to restore habitats, make new friends and be immersed in nature? Enjoy a meaningful getaway in Punakaiki, Christchurch, Wellington or in Auckland while supporting the wonderful conservation efforts being made across Aotearoa. Here are […]
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Join our team! We're hiring - Casual Team Leader, Auckland

Casual Team Leader – Auckland

Casual position The Team Leader is responsible for the safety, welfare and supervision of volunteers doing practical conservation work on our programs in Auckland, ensuring our volunteers enjoy a positive project experience whilst working within the boundaries of occupational health and safety requirements. While Team Leaders have a base location, the ability to be away from the base location […]
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OVERNIGHT VOLUNTEERING – JOIN THE WILD HEART PROJECT

Through overnight volunteering on the Wild Heart Project, volunteers can get to know some of our wild places around Aotearoa (New Zealand) while protecting this beautiful natural environment we are lucky enough to call home. Many of us have felt cooped up these last few months, so why not join our overnight volunteering projects to […]
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Free Trees for Backyard Planting

Please note: (Due to overwhelming demand,  we are no longer accepting requests for free trees. We are all out)           CVNZ has teamed up with Mondelēz New Zealand to give away 1,500 free native trees and shrubs to households in Auckland (available now) and Christchurch (available soon) to help attract native birds […]
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Join Us this Planting Season!

Community Planting Days are back! 🌳⁠ We had planned for this winter to be our biggest planting season yet. CVNZ is committed to planting tens of thousands of native trees around New Zealand but now, due to Covid -19 changes, we need your help more than ever to get these trees in the ground. Many of […]
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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.