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About Us

Ā Mātou

Our vision

Te Ara Kākāriki Greenway Canterbury Trust is an incorporated charitable trust with the goal of increasing biodiversity in Waitaha Canterbury.

Our mission is to create a ‘greenway’ – a corridor of native biodiversity Greendots between the Waimakiriri and Rakaia rivers, linking the mountains to the sea, Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere and Banks Peninsula

Having Greendot plantings every 2.5 kilometres will increase the biodiversity and habitat available for indigenous wildlife.

We want landowners, members of the community, and students, to understand why we are planting Greendots, and join us to work towards achieving our goals.

Te Ara Kākāriki

Our story

Te Ara Kākāriki was launched on November 18th 2005, after discussions from a group of passionate people developed into the idea of creating green corridors of native plantings linking the mountains to the sea across Canterbury.

At the time, the plight of the indigenous biota of the Canterbury plains had long caused considerable concern. Although there were several well-established conservation agencies focussed on the uplands and areas such as Banks Peninsula, there was at that time no large scale ecological or conservation programme for the lowlands of Canterbury.

The depleted nature of the lowlands (in terms of indigenous biota) of the Canterbury Plains was emphasized by both Katie Williams and Colin Meurk who wrote “less than 0.5 percent of the plains still support native vegetation”. The Christchurch City Council added to that by reporting “the loss of these native plant communities has reached a point where habitats for our native wildlife have been reduced to a level where they are now insufficient for continued survival.”

“…the loss of these native plant communities has reached a point where habitats for our native wildlife have been reduced to a level where they are now insufficient for continued survival.”

Native plant communities of the Canterbury Plains / Department of Conservation Report 2005

Some key milestones

On the 18th May 2007 Te Ara Kākāriki Greenway Canterbury was established as a charitable trust, and began to seek funding and work together with funders and partners, and the community. With their support together we have been able to achieve some key milestones including:

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2009

SPRING

the first 1000 seedlings were planted at 5 Greendot sites, across two planting days

2011

Focused

Inaugural Kids Discovery Plantout held at xxxxxxx ,mnbmnhgvmn

2019

Awards

Kid’s Discovery Plantout Programme wins the schools category at the NZ Plant Conservation Network awards

2020

100k plantings

100,000th native seedling planted at a special celebration at Joyce Reserve in Glentunnel

2020

100 Greendots

Celebration marking the 100th Greendot planted

2021

Gold Award

Awarded gold award for contribution to community volunteering at the 2021 Selwyn Awards

2021-2024

3 year project

Restoration begun at our two large legacy sites Te Pae o Ahuriri and Ōkakaraiti, thanks to Jobs for Nature funding. Over three years 50,000 plants will be planted.

Today, Te Ara Kākāriki consists of seven volunteer trustees who meet every six weeks to make decisions, with recommendations from the contractors. Each of the trustees also work with contractors on specific areas, such as Greendot planning, plantout days, funding applications, media and information, and Kids Discovery Plantout field day planning. Our contractors include coordinators and ecologists.

Meet the people who are TAK

Future projects

In the future we have plans to hopefully work on three large key projects. We are actively seeking potential sponsors or companies to partner with on the following projects.

Motu-kākāriki

This will be a large central biodiversity sanctuary of up to 1000 hectares

Huritini ki uta ki tai

Completing a source to lake riparian restoration of the Huritini River

Whakahaumanu Waitaha

Documenting the story of Canterbury Biodiversity Restoration

Please get in touch if you are able to help Te Ara Kākāriki fund these significant projects, or to connect with documentary makers.

large central biodiversity sanctuary (up to 1000 hectares)

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remember the past

Since 1986

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