Community group

Community Waitakere is pleased to be part of Project Twin Streams and is responsible for community engagement along the Henderson Creek. Community Waitakere's involvement with PTS enables wider community development through a focus on the environment, people’s impact and a means of exploring sustainable living choices.

The Clevedon landcare group has formed over concerns for the health of the Wairoa river, including sedimentation and bank erosion. They have recently formed and intend to tackle projects such as eradication of problem willows, weed control, public river access and river-side walkway, riparian fencing and planting of native trees.

We are the local F&B branch for the Auckland City area. We focus on conservation in the Auckland City area. We have local trips, bush walks and meetings. We have an active children's section (Kiwi Conservation Club) which has it's own trips and meetings. We run an annual primary school conservation competition, and we financially support some tertiary student ecological research. We are involved with and support local conservation projects and campaigns and provide information about conservation in Auckland.

Awhitu Landcare Group meets regularly and the focus of the group is controlling coastal erosion, eliminating weeds and pests and re-generating native bush and bird-life.

We hold community planting days during winter and interesting walks and fieldtrips during the year.  

Auckland Zoo's Wildlife Health and Research Centre is a national and international conservation support facility specialising in the study and prevention of disease threats to wildlife.

Ark in the Park is a Forest and Bird (Waitakere Branch) community restoration project in partnership with the Auckland Regional Council carried out in the Cascade Kauri Park in the Waitakere Ranges. Aiming to incorporate over 2000 hectares of predator controlled parkland, accessible to 1.2 million Aucklanders and visitors.

One thousand hectares of mixed farm, forest and native land with 40 land-owner members in the eastern Whitford catchment area. Started with possums; considering other pests 2007.

Conservation volunteers make an important contribution to conservation in New Zealand and we'd like to thank all our volunteers from New Zealand and overseas for your help.

Volunteers help with many different conservation tasks such as bird counts, historic building restoration, habitat restoration, hut maintenance, weed control, whale strandings, tree planting, and giving talks. What you do depends partly on your skills.

Please see our website for more information on where you can assist with our volunteer program.