North Island Projects
If you would like to volunteer on the North Island of New Zealand, please see the list below for up and comming projects, if you would like further detail on any of these projects please contact the Auckland office. Volunteer teams depart the Auckland office at 8am.
Phone: 09 623 7282
Email: info@conservationvolunteers.co.nz
2nd - 6th August - North Shore Native Vegetation Enhancement
Help return Taiaotea Creek to its natural state by getting involved in this exciting restoration project. We will be adding to the great work already done to beautify and restore the Bayside Reserve and Taiaotea Stream so that the area can act as a natural eco system, creating habitats for native fish, insects and birds. The project will result in a healthier stream which will ultimately mean cleaner water at Browns Bay Beach! During this week we will be planting natives in the Taiaotea Valley.
16th - 20th August - Rotokare Wetlands, Taranaki
Rotokare Scenic Reserve is a stunning 230 hectare forested hill-country catchment with extensive wetlands and a 17.8 hectare natural lake. Mature tawa, rewarewa and mahoe dominated forest is home to tui, bellbird, keruru, grey warbler, and North Island robin, plus a variety of other bird species. The lake edge habitat consists of raupo, flax, and pukatea/kahikatea swamp forest – home to notable fauna such as fernbird, spotless crake. The streams and lake also hold eels and banded kokopu. Rotokare is one of the few remaining large wetlands in Taranaki and is the largest pest proof wetland in New Zealand! Help restore forest to the lake catchment, and protect one of the upper catchments of the Tangahoe River.
19th - 23rd July - Te Araroa
Te Araroa means, in Maori, The Long Pathway. It`s a proposed 3,000 km foot trail from top to bottom of the country. The route begins (or ends!) at Cape Reinga and goes down 90-mile Beach and will continue down to Bluff at the southern tip of the South Island. From Cape Reinga to Bluff the team will continue the Kowhai planting to create a stunning GOLDEN PATHWAY on the Waikato section between Meremere and Mercer.
This is another Catchment Care Project
28th - 29th July - Te Waihou Walkway
Join the CVNZ volunteers to help with urgently needed plant rescue on the Te Waihou Walkway. The walkway runs alongside the upper reaches of the Waihou River, where the water is crystal clear and pure, and has a 'got-to-be-seen-to-be-believed' blue colour. The Waihou River is fed by many springs and tributary streams from the Mamaku ranges. Water flows from the Blue Spring at a rate of 42 cubic metres per minute (9240 gallons per minute).The Blue Spring is internationally acclaimed, with the ground water from the Mamaku Plateau taking over 100 years to re-emerge in the spring. This is another Catchment Care Project.
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