Nga Uruora exists to initiate conservation projects which wouldn’t otherwise happen. While official bodies have increasingly, since 1997, offered help for conse
rvation, they do not have the resources, or the focus to protect all remaining remnants and are not always able to meet all the costs.
Being a community group, we are able to approach private landowners and offer and facilitate support for conservation initiatives.
Flexible Criteria: A key part of our approach is to provide help for remnants which are too badly degraded, or too small, to be eligible for official conservation assistance. As far as we are concerned, even individual trees are worth protecting as they are part of the character and history of the landscape and can provide a nucleus for regeneration.
We pride ourselves on not only promoting conservation, but actually getting out and doing the fencing, weed control, planting and so on. Our native plant nurseries provide locally sources and endemic trees.
Community involvement is central to Nga Uruora. We aim to involve as many people, from as many different walks of life as possible, not only in work, but in developing a feel for our natural environment. Volunteers, community groups, businesses, and even probation department community service workers are involved in all aspects of the organisation. Our native plant nurseries are located in schools to allow children to become involved.