Welcome to Environment Network Manawatū

Be part of the solution to environmental challenges

Who are we?

Environment Network Manawatū is a network of over fifty member organisations that fosters and encourages environmental initiatives in the Manawatū, in areas ranging from sustainable living to wildlife conservation.

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Gift Opportunity

Gift a Predator Trap Donation

For a special occasion, or just to say you care!

Donate to our local biodiversity this year.

A donation will allow a predator trap to be deployed in the Ruahine Ranges

Volunteers checking and re-baiting a trap (image credit: A. Behrens)
A DOC 200 trap sitting above the clouds in the Ruahine Ranges(image credit: A. Behrens)
A volunteer carries a trap into the Ranges (image credit: A. Behrens)
Volunteers checking and re-baiting a trap (image credit: A. Behrens)
A volunteer rests at the top of a long climb (image credit: I. Rasmussen)

Why donate as a gift?

A predator trap deployed in the Ruahine Ranges is the perfect waste-free gift to help bring kiwi back to the area.

Rats, stoats, possums, wild cats and hedgehogs destroy bird life by attacking small chicks and eating eggs. When you donate a trap as a gift, your money will be put towards the installation of traps to kill these alien predators.

We are hoping to deploy up to 1000 traps in the Ruahine Range over 2021. Your donation will help in significantly decreasing predator numbers and increasing bird life in the area.

Find out more and Gift a Predator Trap Donation at this link.

Volunteer of the Month

Janet Wilson of Ruahine Whio Protectors

Saving the whistling whio

For over a decade, Janet has tramped miles in the rugged Ruahine Ranges to ensure the survival of the blue duck or whio, that only lives in New Zealand’s back country. “Those of us who are heavily involved feel we are leaving the backcountry a better place than we found it.” The high country of Aotearoa is home to fewer than 3,000 whio, so this species is rarer than the kiwi. Read more here.

Environmental Initiatives Funding

ENM administers the Environmental Initiatives Fund to support Palmerston North-based community initiatives that improve environmental outcomes. Small Grants (up to $500) and Large Grants (between $500 and $12,000) are available for projects that align with PNCC’s Eco-City Strategy priorities, and any identified priorities of the network.

Applications for Small Grants (up to $500) can be made by individuals and organisations at any time - Find out more here.

Applications for Large Grants have closed for 2021 and are expected to reopen in early 2022.

Read about the 2021 grant recipients at this link.

Upcoming Events

Jul 30

Fridays for Future

Jul 30, 2021, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Every Friday The Square, Palmerston North City

In support of #fridaysforfuture, Extinction Rebellion Manawatū holds a safe, peaceful and family-friendly action, by the City Council building in The Square, for climate justice visibility, conversation and information. Bring placards, chalk, song, climate info to share and talk about, theatre, costumes, ideas to work on with others. All welcome!

Aug 01

Manawatū Estuary Working Bee

Aug 1, 2021

1km west of the end of Pinewood Rd Foxton Beach

Many Sundays from early morning until about midday (depending on tides and other factors) a small team meets in the 'dune garden' area of the Manawatū Estuary, to care for the dune wetland, record native flora and the fauna that make their homes there, and keep out the exotic species. Interested people can just turn up and look for the fluoro orange sunhat, or email manawatu.estuary@gmail.com to find out the plan for this week.

Aug 01

Orchard Working Bee

Aug 1, 2021, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

(Every Sunday)

Timona Park, Feilding

The Timona Park Orchard Trust exists to encourage community involvement in the growth of fruit trees for the benefit and enjoyment of residents and visitors. Please contact prior if you wish to attend a working bee, by phoning 06 357 4939 or emailing timonaparkorchardtrust@gmail.com.

Aug 01

Ahimate Reserve Working Bee

Aug 1, 2021, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

First Sunday of each month, 9:30-11:30am

Ahimate Reserve (formerly Waitoetoe Park) Awapuni, Palmerston North 4412

Join the Ahimate Reserve Community, weeding, tree and shrub releasing, mulching and tree planting. All Welcome. Meet at the sandwich board at 9:30, or look for the flag in the park, along the riverside track.

Aug 02

Art Group: Love Cycling

Aug 2, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Monday 19 July, 2 & 16 August Snails: Artist run spaces, 103 Taonui St PN

Climate art group is a hands-on collaborative workshop for creatives who would like to contribute to art-based projects for climate action. Let's Love Cycling is a series of three sessions with a kaupapa of raising the profile of cycling in our city with the hopes of getting more people out of cars and onto bikes. Led by Kirsty Porter.

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Welcome to Environment Network Manawatū

Be part of the solution to environmental challenges

Who are we?

Learn more about us:

Follow ENM

Gift Opportunity

Gift a Predator Trap Donation

Volunteers checking and re-baiting a trap (image credit: A. Behrens)

A DOC 200 trap sitting above the clouds in the Ruahine Ranges(image credit: A. Behrens)

A volunteer carries a trap into the Ranges (image credit: A. Behrens)

Volunteers checking and re-baiting a trap (image credit: A. Behrens)

A volunteer rests at the top of a long climb (image credit: I. Rasmussen)

Why donate as a gift?

Volunteer of the Month

Janet Wilson of Ruahine Whio Protectors

Saving the whistling whio

Environmental Initiatives Funding

Upcoming Events

First Sunday of each month, 9:30-11:30am

Ahimate Reserve (formerly Waitoetoe Park) Awapuni, Palmerston North 4412

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