All are invited to continue an incredible restoration journey begun by the late Chris Mercer along the Hinemaiaia River at Hatepe on the 4th April from 1.30pm

🌱 It’s time to mark your calendars and pull out your gumboots. Greening Taupō’s 2026 planting season is nearly here!

We are incredibly grateful for the time, energy, and dedication this amazing group brings to Greening Taupō week after week, helping to care for our restoration sites.💚

We’re incredibly grateful for the ongoing support of Bella Vista

🐭Predator Free Taupō is putting on a BBQ to celebrate Taupōs amazing trapping community. Come along to connect, share stories, and enjoy a laid-back BBQ together.

What an incredible end to the planting season! Volunteers and partners joined for final plantings at Spa Park, Hipapatua, and Whakaipō Bay, helping restore our local environment.

What does it look like for a community to ‘always be naturing’? After 10 years of Kids Greening Taupō, Media and Communications Advisor Krysia Nowak finds out. 

The Huka Challenge - Call Out for Volunteers

We would love about 30 volunteers for November 29th, 2025. Greening Taupo is once again supporting the Cycle Challenge by marshalling the mountain bike courses (out of the Forest) Let us know if you can help out 😁

Find out more why we feel incredibly lucky to have the First Credit Union as part of our Greening Taupō community

Give trees as a Christmas gift. Need a gift idea for your team, clients or family and friends? Gift something that looks after the environment AND supports a local community group this Christmas.

Kids Greening Taupō’s 10th birthday on Saturday (September 20) at Spa Park was an opportunity for those who helped establish the organisation and those running it now to muse on how it had survived and its success today.

Power Planting 2025. Growing Partnerships and Native Forests 🌿

To celebrate Matariki 2025, Greening Taupō was proud to support the Tauhara Collective for the second Matariki ki te Maunga event

This week for Our Changing World, we're doing things a little differently and we catch up with Claire Concannon in person! Claire has been out and about in the central North Island learning about a community conservation project.

On 9 December 1982, a helicopter accident on Mt Ruapehu claimed five lives. Two years later, a living memorial, the Tongariro Natural History Society, was established in their honour. Today, more than 40 years later, the work of this group continues.

During a Wicked Weeders session, we welcomed RNZ’s Claire Concannon, who joined us to see our restoration work in action and later shared our stories on Our Changing World.

The lower slopes of Mt Tauhara are getting a lot aroha with hundreds of children planting 6000 trees as part of a huge restoration project.

Planting Saturday, 19th July

We’re super excited to announce a new partnership with Unison and a community planting to celebrate