We believe it’s important to track our projects’ progress, celebrate our successes and acknowledge the many hard-working people who make them possible.
So we’ve created a storytelling space to showcase them all. Here you’ll find inspiring volunteer and donor profiles, project updates, media releases and the latest TET news. Don’t forget to bookmark the page, as we update our stories often.
We’ve also put together a Media Kit containing background information, fact sheets and stats, as well as links to a few high-resolution images. All media are welcome to download and make use of this resource.
Last year Rotary celebrated its hundredth year of activity in the Nelson Tasman region. Having already spent a number of years supporting the Battle for
We hoped for it but we didn’t expect it—so winning the Environmental category at the 2022 Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce Awards was a wonderful
TET Reflects on another successful year of connecting communities with conservation. Nau mai nga hua Nau mai nga pai Nau mai kia nui Kia Hawere
The fourth bi-annual Banded Rail survey took place on a sunny September Sunday morning on the shores of the Waimea Inlet. Some volunteers wore gumboots,
A Core & Restore dawn gathering at Onetahua/Farewell Spit opened the door to deeper connections. Lauren Walker believes in the power of connection and communication.
Chris Palzer’s ambitious aim is to make Aoteareoa predator-free by 2050. She’s begun the mahi by focusing on her own backyard, with the Mārahau Halo Trapping
TET is proud to work with NMIT’s Kaitiaki Whenua / Trainee Ranger programme to help support future conservation custodians of Aotearoa. The Kaitiaki Whenua – Trainee
With more than 51km of new fencing laid across 56 different properties in just 20 months, Restoring the Moutere’s recently-completed fencing contract was EPIC! This story
Former Tasman Environmental Trust (TET) board member Gavin O’Donnell is now in the process of a lifestyle change. Having been in farming and agriculture all
TET’s recently acquired drone is keeping a watchful eye on vulnerable young plants. TET-supported projects have surpassed 300,000 plantings. Yes, you read that correctly—over 300,000
Planting season 2022 – it’s going to be a big one! And Battle for the Banded Rail, always supremely well-organised, has published all its Waimeha/Waimea
Nelson Building Society (NBS) is getting behind local conservation efforts this year, generously funding 200 TET predator traps—and something special in the wardrobe line. Howie
TET’s coastal blue carbon project, Core and Restore, launched on 29 November with a dawn celebration on the shores of Waimeha/Waimea Inlet. The chorus of
With an invasive algal pest called Lindavia or “lake snow” discovered in Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa in 2019, safeguarding Nelson Tasman waterways is more important than ever.
Last year we sent our roving reporter to Ngatimoti School to hang out with some Year 8 students as they learnt how to build predator
Its time to get those plants out from under the weeds ! And Battle for the Banded Rail, always supremely well-organised, has published all its
Salisbury School in Richmond has been supporting environmental restoration in Nelson Tasman for decades—propagating, growing and donating native plants; landscaping its premises; and supplying eco-sourced
The Onetahua Restoration Project got off to a flying start in September when the Minister of Conservation announced that Predator Free 2050 is releasing $3
Phew! TET has blown its previous planting numbers to new levels with a whirlwind planting season. Thanks to funding from MPI-One Billion Trees, Ministry for
Our roving reporter recently caught up with Upper Moutere School’s principal, Grant Watson, and 35 keen kids at a restoration planting session at Beuke Bush.
Flood Residents living close to the Motueka River and its tributaries awoke on the morning of the 17th July to flooding that rivalled anything witnessed
Fiona del Bosco and Alastair Wilkinson own Lancewood Villa, an eco-retreat in the Upper Moutere. They’re in the process of converting eight of their 12.5
More than 200,000 used bamboo stakes have been saved from going up in smoke and are now enjoying another lease of life, thanks to a
They came, they saw, they planted! When the University of Canterbury’s Student Volunteer Army mobilised at Neimann Creek last month, they didn’t mess around. It’s
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