RRE support and empower local community initiatives by seeking out opportunities that make available a wider spectrum of skills, experience, leverage and resources to groups and their respective conservation projects.
RRE aim to make a major contribution in helping ‘lift the tide’ for all groups, organisations and volunteers, assisting them to realise their potential for biodiversity across Rodney East.
Restore Rodney East encompasses a diverse range of environmental groups in the eastern coastal areas in the Rodney District from Puhoi in the South to Te Arai in the North.
Find out how you can get involved in local environmental projects taking place in the Rodney East area by checking in with our Events Calendar.
Thanks to Predator Free New Zealand Trust & Eastern Bays Songbird Project for paying it forward with a load of victor’s rat traps. All going to a great use shared to our many community groups
RRE collaborated with Ngāti Manuhiri (NMST), to provide a cultural induction for 57 community group members to gain knowledge, and understanding of cultural values and practices and pre-colonial history, and understand the space we are
Thanks to a fantastic company doing so much for all the community. Our environmental community library will be up and running very soon. Thanks to Masons Storage for this generous discount.
We are pleased to announce that RRE has been successful in our first application to the ‘Lottery Grants Board’. This funding will be used to deliver continued support to environmental community groups in the Rodney
Restore Rodney East with support of Rodney Local Board distributed traps to Algies Bay in support of a Pest Free Mahurangi East Peninsula. RRE Chairman Tim Armitage (left), last week handed over the traps to
We celebrated the return of Kuaka (Godwit) from Alaska to New Zealand. The flight is about 12,000 kilometres! RRE joined in to celebrate and it was a great chance to support Snells Shoreline Conservation Community,
A collaboration with Restore Rodney East and Warkworth Forest & Bird, brought Prof John Cockrem to present in Warkworth to an audience of 55 people. John began penguin field work more than 30 years ago
The Restore Rodney East (RRE) AGM was held this month on September 13th. RRE was lucky to retain all the current committee members and elected officers, giving stability and continuity to the organisation. We were
Dean is Forest & Bird’s Northland Conservation Advocate and has been described as New Zealand’s dread-locked version of David Attenborough. Year 8 students at Mahurangi College had the great pleasure of spending time last week
Well done to the Snells Beach community. Putting aside our personal needs to benefit NZ wildlife is admirable. Snells Beach is a haven for shorebirds to feed, rest and nest, it is a pleasure to
For most of you every week is conservation week! Today I attended a planting day in Puhoi. It was good to get my boots dirty and some plants in the ground. Super impressed with a
We attended the Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust’s roadshow for the fight against the spread of Caulerpa Brachypus, an invasive seaweed. It was a great chance to get up to speed on the spread of Caulerpa,
Thank you to all the sponsors who work with and support Restore Rodney East.
Image credits to Tom Zhang and Ngā Manu Nature Reserve
