Where: 577 Waingaro Road (through the gate and follow signs to the planting site) When: Starting at 10:30am, Saturday 15 August We’re nearing the end of another planting season, and what a season it has been. Volunteers have turned up weekend after weekend, helping establish thousands of native plants across the Haakarimata landscape. We’re enormously grateful. Join us for another planting morning at 577 Waingaro Road as we continue developing the Karakariki Connection: stren

Volunteer Planting Day at Morepork Lane Sunday 2 August 2026, 10:30 am–12:30 pm15 Morepork Lane, Ngaaruawaahia Join the Haakarimata Restoration Trust and the Morepork Action Group for a community planting day as we extend the native planting area on Morepork Lane. Planting native trees within our predator-control grids is an important part of restoring Haakarimata. Every tree planted is an investment in the future of the forest and its threatened wildlife. Trees have been sup

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. This Sunday 5 July, 2500 trees are going in the ground for the Haakarimata - Te Otamanui bird corridor project. Over the past 3 years in Te Kowhai, an area of native planting has been establishing to help build a bird corridor between the western Haakarimata range and the Te Otamanui lagoon in the east and lake Rotokauri in the south east to aid native birds moving between these areas. After some amazing support from the Waipa Rere Noa trust donating the tr