The Palmerston North Girls' High School Enviro Group aims to promote, inspire, and carry through environmental awareness, responsibility, and action at PNGHS and in the wider community.
Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective empowers wāhine/women and their whānau to have more control over their health and fertility. Community development and caring for the natural environment is an important part of a holistic approach to health.
This group is working to install and maintain trap lines in green belts and beside walkways in the Fitzherbert area of Palmerston North, to reduce pest numbers and thus enhance biodiversity in urban bush areas.
Volunteers working in partnership with the Palmerston North City Council have converted this disused clay quarry into a lush urban park with native vegetation, birds and fauna.
These volunteers give practical gardening and cooking tutoring when invited to a school, setting up vegetable gardens, providing cooking lessons, and mentoring to sustain these activities in the long term.
Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre is all about conservation in action. The Mount Bruce Reserve in which the Centre sits is a restored forest and captive breeding site. Open to the public daily, with talks and tours.
Pūriri is an informal collective of community volunteers, celebrating natural darkness, and advocating for the protection of all life that depends on natural cycles of light and darkness.
This group actively campaigns to retain and enhance public green spaces, which are vital to encourage people in urban areas into the outdoors to improve both their physical and mental well-being.
Environmental arts projects and education, fun and learning: school visits, workshops and collaboration. REACT specialize in Giant Puppet making, large scale constructions, lanterns, costumes and masks, for parades, school activities and local carnivals.
RECAP: The Society for the Resilience and Engagement of the Community of Ashhurst and Pohangina Inc.
Working to create social and ecological resilience at the local level to changes in climate, external resource supply and global finance. Workshops, courses, a community garden and orchard.
The object of the Branch is the promotion and advancement of science and technology in New Zealand, and the Manawatu region in particular. A programme of talks includes some on environmental issues.
The Ruahine Whio Protection Trust works to protect whio and their habitat in the Ruahine Ranges, and to raise the funds necessary for this work. Currently, a team of 30 volunteers is maintaining a line of about 500 stoat and rat traps in the Oroua River.
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