Forest & Bird - Lower Hutt Branch

04/06/2026

Have a passion for climate action and making a difference in your community? 🌏🫶

We're seeking community members to join the Community Climate Action and Resilience Funding Panel.

This is an opportunity to help support local projects and have a say in how funding is allocated to initiatives that strengthen climate resilience across our city.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. The panel will meet on Monday 29 June 2026.

Interested? Email [email protected]

27/05/2026

Watch the recording of our Protecting Conservation Land webinar. Learn what’s at stake for Aotearoa’s wild places and how to take action.

Your favourite mountain, beach, or river depends on strong conservation law. These places are protected today because of hard-won legal safeguards. But that’s now under threat.

The Government’s proposed Conservation Amendment Bill could fundamentally change how conservation land is managed, opening the door to development and weakening protections for nature.

The Bill would also make it much easier to exchange or dispose of millions of hectares of public conservation land, such as the Coromandel’s Cathedral Cove, Wellington’s Remutaka Ranges, or Dunedin’s Tunnel Beach.

Together, we can stand up to say that public conservation land is for people and for nature.

19/05/2026

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09/05/2026

Come along, to Wellington Hub’s very first movie night!

27/04/2026

An amazing discovery right here in Lower Hutt! 🐸

They were linked to three frogs that had escaped captivity during a flood in the 1970s.

22/04/2026

This picture holds all the avatar moths on the Denniston Plateau. Every single tuna kuwharuwharu longfin eel in every single river. Every tāiko petrel nest. All the wetlands and forests and marine species.

Everything we love and work to protect fits in a single frame. It’s all we’ve got, so let’s protect it.

Happy Earth Day 🌏

📸: NASA

13/04/2026

31/03/2026

Nature needs a team this election – will you help?

We're building a volunteer community to help give nature a voice, and we want you in it.

Every two weeks, we'll email you actions you can take for te taiao nature. Share a post, send an email to a decision-maker, help out behind the scenes, or join an in-person event in your community. Pick what suits you. Do one thing or heaps. It’s up to you!

Got your own mahi for nature? We'll help you share it with the community too!

We're bringing together our branches, members, volunteers, supporters, and people brand new to Forest & Bird. Whether you've got 10 minutes or a whole afternoon, there's a way in.

👉 Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=3T9-NMbw9Uu45fi_AZQ5rW29S5SVBslFuHBkZvmeVbRUMjVMR1VNQ1RVNEFHSEM2WURDVTRYR1Y2TiQlQCN0PWcu&route=shorturl

02/02/2026