Category: Impact Stories

Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust

Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust – A Successful Track Record  Excuse the pun, but it’s testament to the successful track record of the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust that many of the area’s walking tracks and an iconic bike trail are entrusted to their oversight. When the Little River Rail Trail Trust wound up in Read more…

Canterbury Community Gardens Association – Cantabrians love getting their hands dirty

Canterbury Community Gardens Association – Cantabrians love getting their hands dirty With more than 80 community gardens and food forests flourishing throughout Canterbury – and more sprouting up each year – the region has the most communal food-growing spaces in New Zealand. “We have the highest density in the whole country,” says horticulturalist Sandi Bobkova, Read more…

Avon Ōtakaro Network – No more plastic geese, thanks!

Avon Ōtakaro Network – No more plastic geese, thanks!   A small plastic goose sits on the railing of a series of wooden bins into which Avon Ōtakaro Network manager Hayley Guglietta sorts detritus that’s been scooped up from one of our city’s iconic awa (rivers).  The plastic toy will become a quirky souvenir of the Read more…

Te Ara Kākāriki – creating a corridor of green ‘dots’

Te Ara Kākāriki –  creating a corridor of green ‘dots’  Between the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers, spreading across the Selwyn district of Mid Canterbury, concentrations of native bush are growing in height and popularity although people are unlikely to get the chance to admire most of them. Green ‘dots’ – areas of regenerating bush containing Read more…