Landowners

Trees for Survival works with landowners to revegetate riparian areas and steep or eroding retired farmland.

We work with lots of passionate landowners, some who have hosted Trees for Survival schools planting days for many years.

Between January - April each year we are busy ensuring our schools have planting sites for the upcoming planting season in May - August and are in touch with interested landowners to identify and assess new sites.

As new schools come on board, we look to match schools with suitable sites.

We require our landowners to fence and prepare the planting site for planting and then maintain the planting for 2 years. Our facilitators liaise with landowners on site suitability and requirements, help with the planning for planting days and undertake plant monitoring.

We are always happy to hear from landowners who are interested in partnering with a Trees for Survival school.

Landowner Expression of Interest

2M+

Total native plants planted

146,280

Total native plants planted in 2023

186

Schools involved in 2023

5,500

Students involved in 2023

12km

Waterways planted in 2023

Become a Trees for Survival landowner!

Planting sites are carefully selected in collaboration with landowners and our local area facilitators who can arrange to visit your site and talk through what is involved.

Do you live along an environmentally at-risk stream or bank and are keen to revegetate the land with New Zealand native plants raised by school children? Get in touch!

Become kaitiaki of our unique New Zealand environment by becoming a Trees for Survival landowner.

Ko au te whenua, ko te whenua, ko au.
I am the land, the land is me.

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A word from one of our landowners

Todd & Anneke Reeves, Waiuku

Todd and Anneke are enthusiastic landowners who have hosted Trees of Survival planting days for three years often with family and friends helping out.

Over consecutive years the Reeves have fenced three creeks on the property which feed into the Manukau Harbour in preparation for Trees for Survival schools to plant.

The Reeves are fantastic hosts – often pre drilling holes for planting and providing the school group with an excellent lunch. Returning students can see the result of their work with the gradual transformation of the creeks with their planting.

2,600

Native plants planted at the Reeves to date!

As kaitiaki (guardians) of the land, our family really value the partnership with Trees for Survival and the local schools that come and plant each year.

Planting days are something we all look forward to. There are so many positives about being involved; not only is the land being reinvigorated, but it is so inspiring to see the knowledge and skills the children are learning.

Thank you, Trees for Survival, for making this possible.

– Todd and Anneke Reeves
Waiuku

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"Trees for Survival have been planting trees on our property in Clevedon for 2 years now. The hard work they have done planting is adding to the corridor of natives they have previously done in this area. Enhancing the bird life, and helping restore waterways."

"2022 is our first season of being a TfS landowner and it’s been an absolute pleasure. We’ve had 1302 trees planted so far by school students, and have another 770 ready to be planted very soon. Not only is it fantastic seeing students have a blast and learn about restoring our environment, it’s also given our conservation project a boost and is helping us to achieve our sustainability goals."

"This is our 2nd year supporting our local School, along with TfS, and planting trees on our Hill Farm. We hope this will eventually improve our waterways, bring more birds to the area and give the children a feeling that they are leaving a legacy that they can come back and visit in the future."

“We are incredibly grateful to be part of the TFS programme. At Camp Adair, we recognise the need to transition as much of our land back to native bush. For too long, we have been focussed on mowing large areas of grasslands that provides no environmental benefit to our ecosystem. The new TFS is planting will help develop a forest of native trees that will enhance our mountain bike experience at Camp Adair. And a massive thanks you to the AGGS girls who did a magnificent job planting over 1,000 trees this year."

“Trees for Survival has been a great organisation to be involved with. When we first started to consider riparian planting on our river flats, Trees for Survival were a very helpful source of guidance and information. The first year – 2019, Maraetai Beach School and sponsors planted approximately 1,400 plants! The following year Clevedon School planted about 800 plants and in 2021 Maraetai Beach School was back again with about 850 plants. We take much pleasure in seeing the establishment and growth of the plants over the last 3 years and hope the students involved also do when they drive past!”

“As a land owner I am hugely grateful to Trees for Survival for opening up my eyes to the importance of planting natives not just for the bird life but for the multitude of other species that need this habitat to survive. This is the second planting we have had on our property and won’t be the last. The kids were knowledgeable, incredibly well-mannered and brought a magic to the day that only children can bring.”

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Principal Partners

We are incredibly thankful to our Principal Partners whose generous support ensures we can bring Trees for Survival to more schools, educating more students, and planting more trees than ever before!

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Trees for Survival is a Rotary initiated project, originally established by the Rotary Club of Pakuranga in 1991.
We are thrilled to receive ongoing support from numerous Rotary Clubs with club members regularly helping at our planting days.