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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every year, on the third Friday in May, thousands of people around the world participate in Endangered Species Day by celebrating, learning about, and taking action to protect threatened and endangered species. This year, we will celebrate Endangered Species Day on the slightly later date of Wednesday 26th May with a launch event for our brand […]