Volunteers who have been building trails and planting trees for ten years in the green hills of Wellington. This is regenerating bush directly next to ZEALANDIA Ecosanctuary Te Māra a Tāne where volunteers maintain a trap and bait network to protect the rare birds spilling over the fence.
A project to clear exotic and invasive pest plants and manmade rubbish from a neglected reserve with artificial bog and transform it into one that resembles a natural forest and wetland.
Our mission is to restore a large-scale wild kiwi population to Wellington’s backyard. Our commitment is to create a future where we share the land with the bird we take our name from.
Our Vision - Working towards a world in which people and nature flourish together.
Our Mission - We exist to strengthen the health of communities and ecosystems for mutual benefit.
Our vision is to restore native flora and fauna to the Prince of Wales Park through planting and trapping, including turning the rugby fields into wetlands. We may also build tracks and a community garden.
Our focus is on removing invasive weeds, supporting regeneration of native species and controlling animal pests. Join us for a working bee!
The Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves is a local environmental care group. We work to promote and enhance the conservation and long term preservation of bush reserves in Tawa.
Providing ongoing care of Waipāhihi, Karori Stream, improving quality of wai and biodiversity. We aim to understand and educate the community around current condition, causes and ways to improve for future.
Our mission is to preserve and improve the natural ecosystems and native plant and animal species of Wellington City. Our vision is to restore bird corridors and bring birds back to Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
By harnessing their passion to create change, they are inspiring and involving young people to protect planet earth and do their part to reverse the crisis facing nature in New Zealand.
Our aim is to stabilise the steep banks of the lower Stebbings stream, protect the stream from sediment runoff, provide shade to the stream, enhance the area for aquatic and bird life and provide an attractive area for walkers.
The nursery is helping to put back what we have lost … habitat; supplying young healthy plants to Zealandia, community groups and our own projects from our plant propagation facility.
We are removing pest plants and doing a little infill planting.
Our group meets on the third Sunday of the month. 1:30 - 3:30pm April to September. 2pm - 4pm the other months.
Kia Mouriora te Kaiwharawhara Sanctuary to Sea is a collaborative whole-of-catchment restoration initiative with a 100-year vision that the mouri/lifeforce of the Kaiwharawhara is healed, through working in partnership with mana whenua, organisations and communities throughout the whaitua/catchment.
A main goal of the Mākara Peak Mountain Bike Supporters is to restore the park to a healthy, thriving native forest full of native animals.
A group of dedicated volunteers striving to restore the riparian zones and increase the biodiversity of Mākara and Ōhāriu waterways through habitat restoration, pest trapping, and native planting.
One of Wellington's oldest reforestation projects and is on land that is part of Tapu Te Ranga Marae in Island Bay. Our mission is to restore a forest ecosystem, apply the principle of kaitiakitanga and establish a partnership, and foster community involvement through recreation, education, etc.
We are a group of local Mt Victorians who look after a patch of regenerating bush on the northern slope of Mt Victoria. We meet once a month for plant care and during winter plant natives.
A group of local residents keen to develop a closer connection with their local reserve and help look after it by controlling predators of native birds: rats, stoats, and possums.
Mountains to Sea Wellington connects people to nature, building understanding through science and exploration, and inspiring communities to care for the environment.
Our kaupapa is being neighbourly with our neighbours, leading social change in responsible pet ownership. Users of the reserve are laying out the welcome mat for the spillover birds: by trapping pests and engaging in bush restoration efforts.
Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust is a public charitable trust made up of people who care deeply about the preservation of this internationally significant New Zealand bush and forest reserve.
This group aims to connect the community to progressively control Old Man's Beard across Wellington. We want to encourage and help volunteers tackle the easier stuff on public land and in their own backyards, so the WCC can tackle more of the hard-to-get OMB.
Our vision is preserving and enhancing the biodiversity of Paekawakawa Reserve to create a community reserve that connects with the local network of green spaces and promotes understanding of the natural, cultural and historic heritage of the area.
A community minded project to eradicate or suppress the introduced predators of South Mākara. Our aim is to give our native birds and invertebrates a helping hand by dealing to the stoats, rats, possums and other predators snacking on them.
The purpose of Pest Free Tawa is to clear our suburb of rats, mice, stoats and possums.
By providing nest boxes, predator control, and plant cover around Wellington's South Coast we are creating safe places for little penguin kororā to breed.
Community group to rid Churton Park of predators and encourage native birds and lizards back into our gardens. Backyard trappers welcome!
Predator Free Grenada Village is in the north of Wellington City. We hope that by eliminating predators we’ll see more native brids, skinks, lizards and other small natives back in our community.
Predator Free Houghton Valley - community trapping project working towards a predator free Houghton Valley and assisting the goals of Predator Free Wellington.
Bring back the birds! A backyard tapping group, covering Island Bay, Owhiro Bay and Southgate!
Working together to bring back wildlife glory to Karori. An easy-to-use trap at 1 in 5 households will get us there!
Our purpose is to restore native flora and fauna in our suburbs by backyard and reserve trapping.
Predator Free Miramar is a volunteer, not-for-profit, community effort to rid the Peninsula of rats and mice, and bring back the birds and the bush to Wellington’s eastern suburbs.
Backyard trapping community group working towards Predator Free Mt Cook, Newtown, and Berhampore.
Predator Free Ngaio & Crofton Downs aims to increase the native bird population by removing the rats, mice and mustelids from the suburb. We provide traps to backyard trappers and also work with the council to trap in the reserves.
Welcome to the Predator Free Northland group! We are a western Wellington suburb trying to rid the area of mammalian pests, following the fine example of Crofton Downs, Wilton, Ngaio, Wadestown, and Khandallah.
Predator Free Wellington aims to make Wellington the first predator free capital city in the world – aiming for zero possums, rats and mustelids. It will give us a natural city that flourishes with native wildlife and a dawn chorus that will be the envy of other cities. More local trapping groups listed here.
Sustainable Coastlines has a vision of restored mauri for our moana. We operate nationwide, connecting people with nature and inspiring change.
We're a group of volunteers on a mission to restore the native flora and fauna in Tanera Park and Gully back to its pre-1840 state as much as possible.
The role of the Trelissick Park Group volunteers is to focus on animal pest and weed control, planting of native plants, home plant nurseries, advocacy, publicity and education.
Tawatawa is a nature reserve in South Wellington being lovingly restored to native forest in partnership with the Southern Environmental Association.
It’s quite simple: we aim to restore ecological health to the Miramar Peninsula. More specifically, we’d like to see every household on the peninsula growing at least one locally native plant species.
A grassroots conservation team taking action to restore and protect the ecological potential of Te Ahumairangi, adjacent to Wadestown, Tinakori, Northland and Wilton.
Connecting moana, ngahere, people and communities. We have created a long term vision, many generations in the future, to revive and restore the natural biosphere of the Haewai / Houghton Valley area.
This is a group for those who wish to get involved in the restoration of Tyers Stream Reserve, are interested in the Waitohi catchment or water quality in Tyers Stream. We have working bees on an irregular basis, please contact Lynn on 027 3371 830 or email for more information.
Wild Aro’s a group of locals coordinating backyard and bush trapping in the valley. Part of the Predator Free Wellington network.
Managed by Karori Sanctuary Trust, a not-for-profit community-led organisation. The Trust’s vision is to be a world-class conservation site portraying our natural heritage that captures people’s imagination, understanding and commitment.