Green and Blue: Land and Water
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'Hands-on' Projects
Conservation projects
What are the natural environments that your organisation relates to?
What spaces do your clients care about?
Every organisation and group can have a 'hands-on' project that enhances beauty and biodiversity.
Getting 'stuck in' together is a real win-win. Physical and mental health, relationships and sense of community, children, youth and adults working together ... these are all wonderful benefits as well as what you achieve for a local ecosystem.
Partnership
Practical Conservation projects tend to happen in partnership with others. Organisations such as city councils, regional councils, Forest & Bird, churches, residents associations.
Health and Safety: you will need specific policies for outdoors events to keep everyone safe.
What are the natural environments that your organisation relates to?
What spaces do your clients care about?
Every organisation and group can have a 'hands-on' project that enhances beauty and biodiversity.
- native plantings and urban wilderness spaces
- beach clean-ups
- planting alongside an urban stream
- wetland protection
Getting 'stuck in' together is a real win-win. Physical and mental health, relationships and sense of community, children, youth and adults working together ... these are all wonderful benefits as well as what you achieve for a local ecosystem.
Partnership
Practical Conservation projects tend to happen in partnership with others. Organisations such as city councils, regional councils, Forest & Bird, churches, residents associations.
Health and Safety: you will need specific policies for outdoors events to keep everyone safe.
LandWhat land does your organisation own, lease or rent?
How will you care for this land in a way that reflects your environmental values? Water use and flow-on effectsFind out what water your organisation uses, where it comes from, and what the environmental issues are around your water supply.
How does your organisation wash - where you wash your cars Networks:
Nature Space is a website for groups, individuals and landowners undertaking ecological restoration in New Zealand. |
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Deep attachment: Comment by Bronwyn Hayward
Bronwyn Hayward encourages environmental education, "beginning with direct environmental experience, locating the sites for effective citizen action in local places and valued communities. It encourages citizens to develop attachment to natural places, outdoor environments or sacred sites of cultural value. Opportunities for citizens to form deep attachment to places and ecosystems can occur through tribal, family or personal links, from informal ways such as childhood exploration and play through to more formal activities. Pleasurable outdoor activity offers important insights and sparks interest in the environment."
'Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand', p68-69
Bronwyn Hayward encourages environmental education, "beginning with direct environmental experience, locating the sites for effective citizen action in local places and valued communities. It encourages citizens to develop attachment to natural places, outdoor environments or sacred sites of cultural value. Opportunities for citizens to form deep attachment to places and ecosystems can occur through tribal, family or personal links, from informal ways such as childhood exploration and play through to more formal activities. Pleasurable outdoor activity offers important insights and sparks interest in the environment."
'Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand', p68-69
