Landowners

Join us as a Trees for Survival Landowner

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

Trees for Survival Charitable Trust works with landowners to support schools with the restoration of riparian areas and steep or eroding, retired farmland. We work with many passionate landowners, some who have hosted school planting days for many years.

Between January - April each year we are busy ensuring our schools have suitable planting sites for the upcoming planting season (May - August). Planting sites are selected in collaboration with our local area facilitators who can arrange to visit your site and talk through what is involved.

While there is no cost for the plants, we are looking for landowners willlng to fence and prepare planting sites, maintain for 2 years to enable plant survival and contribute to a memorable, fun, educational and rewarding planting day with a local school (providing lunch for the group to enjoy after planting is always appreciated)

Not only are you supporting restoration of biodiversity, you are strengthening relationships in your community and sharing a love for our environment.

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A word from some of our Landowners

Maxine & Hamish Clayton
Hunua Auckland

It was a fresh but sunny day for Howick Primarys planting day with Maxine and Hamish Clayton. Maxine and Hamish did a really great job of preparing the site in a short space of time. This site has plenty of water draining through it when the hunua area gets heavy rainfall. The planting will help to stabilize the area, filter the runoff draining through it, provide habitat and add to the local seed bank.

The students motored through planting, with Hamish on the auger, our wonderful parent helpers and even our amazing bus driver! With planting completed we made our way over to the house for a very generous lunch. After that was a really enjoyable time meeting the horses, grapefruit gathering and playtime on the lawn.

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Native plants planted at the Claytons in 2026

We'd like to recommend TFS to all landowners. The application process is straight forward and TFS responded quickly. Our TRF rep Kirsten, was an absolute delight: fun and knowledgable.

We were blown away by the health and quality of the seedlings provided. We were given 800 or so strong, healthy 50cm plus plants that had been carefully raised.

Howick Primary School students, parents and teacher were delightful. They tumbled out of the coach full of laughter. We loved their enthusiasm for everything; planting, lunch and feeding the horses with carrots. Real characters.

We look forward to watching our wetland grow and thrive. I feel proud that we're giving some back to the land and caring for our environment. Can't wait to do it all again next year.

– Maxine Clayton
Hunua

"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.”

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.