Here are some cool facts from NZ Arb about each of our hero trees…   Click on photo to go to voting form Rākau āporo | Apple tree There are around 7500 varieties of apples are grown world wide. The most popular variety of apple in NZ is the Royal Gala. It was born and […]

Our names are Georgina, Annabel, and Meg.  We are 9 years old and live in Palmerston North. We are members of KCC and we are interested in helping to save endangered New Zealand species of birds and reducing waste to help protect the environment.  Because we are interested in this, we decided to fund raise […]

Suzanne, our KCO from KCC West Coast volunteered for eight days to help clean up the beaches around where she lives after recent Fox River landfill disaster. Extreme weather caused an old dump to erode (break down) and rubbish started floating downstream, and washing up about 300 kilometres along the coast, and through the native bush. Suzanne said it […]

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This series of time lapse images, taken by photographer and conservationist David Mudge, shows New Zealand’s only fully parasitic flowering plant. Copyright: Ngā Manu Images.

Hi I am Helena. I like outside. I have just turned 7.  I live in Nelson but I am from Wellington, I moved to Nelson last year but we haven’t lived here for a year yet. I have been doing the KCC challenges. We found out about the challenges on the computer last year. Writing […]

We were at the beach for a massive impromptu community fireworks display. Everyone was really amazing picking up their rubbish afterwards but it was dark. Sam decided he was going to go down to beach first thing in the morning at 6 am before school to make sure all the rubbish had been picked up. […]

Kids from Porirua East School made these wicked cool windsocks with the team from Pātaka Art + Museum. Aren’t they inspiring? Make your own windsock with these instructions and template: http://kcc.org.nz/portfolio/native-fish-windsocks/