Volunteers form an integral part of our habitat restoration, wildlife monitoring and environmental/conservation research projects. The volunteer team is headquartered near to Wellington and our program area is based largely in the Greater Wellington region. However, several of our projects also provide the opportunities to work in other regions of New Zealand. The work that you will be involved with is typically a combination of direct habitat restoration (e.g. predator control, tree planting, invasive weed removal) and environmental/conservation research such as bird monitoring, marine mammal monitoring and ecological projects. Examples of projects we are currently involved with include: * Replanting native forests (on the mainland and also on off-shore islands) * Monitoring native birds to examine the efficacy of predator control * Stream quality monitoring as part of a regional stream health project * Recording dolphin species and movements within Wellington harbour * Restoring degraded dune ecosystems * Removing pest plants from several native ecosystems (e.g. dunes, forests) * Predator control within native forests in Wellington and the Coromandel * Trail construction and park maintenance within wildlife reserves * Trash and weed removal from harbour islands- involves kayaking to the islands (summer only) Please note that some projects are seasonal. |
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