We love native trees.
Let us show you why.
Native trees can live for thousands of years. They keep thriving and adding to Aotearoa's indigenous biodiversity.
Native trees clean up waterways and protect ecosystems: stabilising soils, reducing sedimentation and moderating waterflows. They help to absorb nutrient run off from intensive agriculture.
Native trees are awesome for climbing, jumping, swinging, and hiding in. And sometimes falling out of...
Native trees improve our mental wellbeing and health. Studies show that adults and kids who spend more time in nature are healthier physically and emotionally.
Our breath-taking forests are part of the New Zealand experience, highly valued by Kiwis and international visitors. From the Great Walks to our local reserves they provide us with places to exercise in, spend time with our families or simply to marvel at.
Native trees store carbon from our atmosphere and help reduce the effects of climate change.
Native trees provide homes for our native birds, bees, lizards and insects. The survival of some of our most precious native species relies on having native trees to feed on and live in. And our forests, gardens and local reserves provide the best outdoor classrooms in the world!
Contemporary Kiwi cuisine is second to none. Native forests help to feed the bees for mānuka honey, grow edible delicacies like pikopiko and clean the waterways where fish breed and koura live.
Native trees are culturally and spiritually important to us. The positive impact native forests have is vitally important to the mauri (life force) of our ecosystems. They are helping us in our role as kaitiaki.
Our special native trees are unique to New Zealand, you won't see them anywhere else in the world. They ground us and inspire us to share our Kiwi talent and individuality with the world.
The benefits of native trees are wide reaching and it's easy to show them some love!
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Out there is a place with no walls or boundaries, where nature surrounds you. Right now we can’t enjoy our beautiful country as we normally would, but we can still add to its beauty, for our future and for future generations.
More native trees in the ground means greater biodiversity, cleaner waterways, better physical and mental health and a whole country full of beautiful destinations to explore.
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Every tree counts, so whether you donate 1 tree or 100 trees it all makes a difference.
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