Beach Clean-up: Wānaka Lakefront
Join WAI Wānaka for a beach clean-up event along Wānaka Lakefront. Check out their website for event details.
Get Your Feet Wet: Bullock Creek
Undertake a stream health assessment at Bullock Creek (the lake end) with WAI Wānaka. See their website for event details.
Beacon Point Road Restoration Group Community Planting Day
Join the Beacon Point Road Restoration Group, Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust and WAI Wānaka for a community planting day, supported by QLDC.
See WAI Wānaka website for full event details.
Beach Clean-up: Bremner Bay
Join WAI Wānaka for a beach clean-up event along Bremner Bay (Lake Wānaka).
See WAI Wānaka website for full event details.
Lakeside Road Enhancement Group Community Planting Day
Join the Lakeside Road Enhancement Group, Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust and WAI Wānaka for a community planting day, supported by QLDC.
See WAI Wānaka website for full event details.
Saving the World, One Butterfly at a Time
Join the Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust from Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland for an inspiring talk on the beauty, importance, and conservation of Aotearoa’s butterflies and moths. See this QLDC page for event details.
Wao Film Night- Think Like A Forest
South Island Premiere of Think Like A Forest
Curated and hosted by Wao, in partnership with Pure Advantage and WAI Wānaka, the feature of the evening is the premiere of Think Like a Forest, a compelling new documentary that makes the case for the Recloaking Papatūānuku initiative, an urgent and ambitious programme to restore our indigenous forests and wetlands at scale.
See Wao website for full event details.
Community planting session at Diamond Lake
Community planting session with Te Kākano at Diamond Lake. See their facebook page for event details.
Wao Summit 2025 Programme Launch
You're invited to Wao's Summit Programme Launch event, a friendly gathering of our audience, partners, volunteers, stakeholders, and supporters - with guest speaker Sara Walton.
See the Wao website for tickets and more information.
Community Planting Day
At Diamond Lake.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Get Your Feet Wet: Stoney Creek
Stream health workshop at Stoney Creek. See WAI Wānaka website for more information.
Forest & Bird: Wetlands Talk with Peter Langlands
Join WAI Wānaka and Forest & Bird for this talk with optional walk. See WAI Wānaka website for more details.
Community Planting Day
At Albert Town, Fisherman access.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Beach Clean-up: The Outlet & Microplastic Sampling
See WAI Wānaka website or social media for more details.
Community Planting Day
At Hāwea Domain.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Community Planting Day
At Templeton Park.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Beach Clean-up: Cleaning up the Cardrona
See WAI Wānaka events page for more details: https://waiwanaka.nz/events/
Community Planting Day
At Lismore Park.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Community Planting Day
At Bullock Creek Wetlands!
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
Beach Clean-up: Lake Hāwea
See WAI Wānaka events page for more details: https://waiwanaka.nz/events/
Harakeke plant guard weaving workshop
Presented and facilitated by Te Kākano in collaboration with us, Friends of Bullock Creek Trust.
Come along and learn how to weave a plant guard with harakeke whilst learning the tikanga associated with harakeke harvest and weaving.
Free event but bookings essential through the eventbrite link.
International Day for Biological Diversity
We all rely on biodiversity. Not only that, biodiversity and the life it sustains, has a right to existence beyond the benefits we as humans take from global and local biodiversity. Without biodiversity, many of the birds, animals and the ecosystems we love and enjoy and visit and live within would not exist, and the food and medicine we rely on would be gone.
Global biodiversity loss is real and is happening now and contributors like human-induced climate change, unchecked development, industrialisation and CO2 gas emissions are all to blame. We all have a responsibility to do what we can to support biodiversity and/or mitigate its loss, whether on a local or larger scale. International Day for Biodiversity raises awareness of the importance of diverse habitats and environments to not only human health and wellbeing but the health and wellbeing of the planet itself.
Check out https://www.cbd.int/biodiversity-day to learn more
World Bee Day
Bees are important pollinators and without the work they do in pollinating the crops of the food we eat, we would go hungry. Bees are under threat of extinction and World Bee Day exists to raise awareness of their importance globally. Check out the website to learn more about the beauty and importance of bees and how you can do your bit to help protect them.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/bee-day
Community Planting Day
Near the Hāwea Food Forest, Hāwea Domain.
See the Te Kākano website for more details: https://tekakano.org.nz/
World Migratory Bird Day
Help make our towns, communities and cities more bird-friendly, especially for migratory birds. Raising awareness and encouraging actions for bird conservation around the world.
See the website for more information: https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/