Conservation Volunteer Bookings

Enjoy a day at the beach by helping us restore the dunes. On this day we will be restoring sites identified as Key Native Ecosystems (KNE) on Wellington's southern coast which provide important habitat for little blue penguins/korora, and native lizards. This is one of our most popular projects- book a spot before they fill up! Free transport to and from projects provided!

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Get to know your local community at our working bee with local community group, Friends of Tawa Bush. Tawa Bush was once filled with forest giants such as kahikatea and rimu as well as an undergrowth of ferns and nikau palms. Join us as we protect the forest by tackling invasive weeds. Tools, training and transport provided.

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Houghton Valley was once covered with native bush and full of bird song before it was cleared for farming. Over recent years the local community have worked hard to restore the woodland, by planting native trees and introducing pest control to protect native wildlife. Help us bring the birdsong back to Houghton Valley! Tools, training and free transport provided.

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This year Conservation Volunteers has made a commitment to plant another 10,000 trees at Ätiu Creek Regional Park to help restore this park back to native bush and achieve our aims of turning this area into a predator free peninsula. We have plenty of Community Planting Days coming up that we would love for you to join!

This beautiful and little visited park has extensive harbour frontage with large tracts of native forest supporting a range of flora and fauna which provides habitat for the nationally threatened New Zealand dabchick and brown teal. This is a stunning coastal area that is now under intensive regeneration. We would love for you to come out and escape from the city for the day to help restore this beautiful site by planting hundreds of native trees and shrubs along the gully to filter contaminants before they reach the waterway and provide important shade and habitat for native fauna. We can provide transportation on site from our office in Eden Terrace for a limited number of volunteers, please get in touch to learn more and book your spot. The activities will run from 10am to 12pm followed by a BBQ for all our volunteers!! Join our community planting day and bring the family for a fun day!

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The team at Conservation Volunteers NZ is very excited to continue our work in the Owhiro Stream catchment with a new restoration project. We have received a grant from MPI’s Matariki Tu Rakau fund to plant 20,000 natives in the area over the next three winters, starting this year in July. Tools, training and transport provided.

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The Papakura catchment has seen a lot of change over the years with land clearance and loss of stream bank habitat. This project area is part of a large catchment and it will take a lot of community effort working together to restore the streams that flow to the Manukau Harbour. 

This is the start of a big, exciting, potential series of projects that will enhance the health of the catchment. The plants will help to stabilise banks, prevent erosion, reduce sediment entering the water as well as providing habitat for birds, lizards and insects.

This is within the Forest and Bird’s South East Wild Link project area and these native plants and trees will provide potential important habitat for Kaka, Bellbirds, Kereru and Tui as well as New Zealand’s only native mammal, the long tailed bat.    

We are restoring a section of the Papakura Stream with native plants and trees. We will be working with the local community and will also have groups of volunteers helping with the site preparation, planting and maintenance of the site. The plants will be eco sourced and provided by Te Whangai Trust. 

We need your help, join us for a fun day!!

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We are excited to share this new project with all of our local communities and volunteers. With new planting sites in Owhiro Bay, join us in regenerating these areas with native rakau which will help stabilize the bank and filter the stream which flows into Taputeranga marine reserve. Tools, training and transport provided!

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Nestled along the upper reaches of the Waitemata Harbour in Paremoremo lies Sanders Reserve. It’s a fantastic 16.5ha multi-use recreation area with great views of the Harbour.

A local community group, Sustainable Paremoremo have been working hard on the restoration of this area over the past few years by planting over 20,000 native trees. CVNZ have partnered with this small volunteer group with the aim of helping maintain the area.

We'd love to have your help.  Come and enjoy the amazing views while helping to plant thousands of native trees.

Bookings are essential.

phone 0800 56 76 86 or email info@cvnz.org.nz

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Join Conservation Volunteers NZ on our brand new Papakura Stream Restoration Project. This new project aims to restore and protect stream banks and water quality, as well as habitat for native species, through fencing (with Future Posts – recycled plastic fence posts), planting native trees, water quality monitoring, and community engagement on both public and private land.

On this day we will visit Brookby Heights as we help landowners to restore their wetlands and the nearby Papakura Stream by planting thousands of native trees! Afterwards we will have a free sausage sizzle (meat and vege) for all of our volunteers! We would love for you to join us! 

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Come lend at a hand at the CVNZ nursery where you can be involved in the propagation of thousands of native seedlings, destined for our new restoration project in Åwhiro Bay. Volunteer activities include: potting some of our seedlings and weeding of plants and the nursery itself. Tools, gloves, training and transport provided.

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