Successful project profiles

Thanks to the Environmental Initiatives Fund, there is some great work being done throughout the Auckland region by the community, take a look at the stories below:

Historic Clydesdale watering-hole being restored

The Waiau Pa Historical Trust is restoring an old well which once supplied water for teams of Clydesdale horses in the Franklin district. Read more...

Protecting native species on Great Barrier Island

A project which is helping protect native species on Great Barrier Island received funding from the Auckland Regional Council’s Environmental Initiatives Fund. Read more...

Lunchtimes never a waste at Glendowie Primary School

Glendowie Primary School students are the ultimate waste busters. After every lunchtime they sort and recycle all their left over food scraps and rubbish. Read more...

From bog to wetland on a Karaka property

Ray and Kathy Reynolds have transformed a boggy area on their Karaka property back into the wetland it once was. Read more...

Jennifer and Lance Gravatt - Iffley Meadow Farms Limited

Jennifer and Lance Gravatt are passionate landowners. In 2005 they started a major project to restore land including a wetland ecosystem of a tributary of the Hoteo River, which forms part of their Tomorata farm in Rodney. Read more...

Karaka Rangatahi Trust

The Karaka Rangatahi Trust, guardians (Kaitiaki) of a Karaka property are making sure that it is preserved for future generations. Read more...

Maybil Partnership

Lesley Powell and Kathleen Bellamy three years ago embarked on a major project to regenerate their Wellsford property. When Lesley and Kathleen bought their 140 hectares Tomarata property in 2005 they could see it had a lot of potential. They set up a beef breeding and fattening unit on their property and were keen to improve the condition of their land and farm in an environmentally sustainable way. Read more...

Gill Adshead - Manaia Properties Ltd

Rodney landowner Gill Adshead in 2006 embarked on a project to restore an area of native bush on her property which borders the Kaipara Harbour. Read more...

St Mary’s Primary - Northcote

St Mary’s Primary School students have transformed an unloved area of their Northcote school into a captivating native forest. Read more...