Urban Ark – Manawa Taiao supports conservation across 66 square kilometres (6600 ha) of Tāmaki Makaurau’s central isthmus – from Parnell to Pt Chevalier in the north down to Hillsborough and Lynfield in the south. This is a diverse region that is home to a quarter of a million people.
By enabling and supporting the work of community conservation groups we envisage thousands of households, plus schools and businesses working together to create a place where our native species can thrive. A place where kererū come in flocks, endemic skinks and geckos are abundant and native plants grow free of smothering weeds.
We want Urban Ark to be the Manawa Taiao – the heart of the environment. We work around the region’s six maunga to care for and protect these important taonga. We work along seven awa to help create biodiversity corridors connecting scattered patches of ngahere (forest) where we encourage our native species to spread and thrive.
With the help of 90,000 households across the region, we can bring back the native biodiversity that has been largely removed from our urban environment.