1. Air New Zealand Environment Trust
(News/Current News)

     July 2010 Air New Zealand Green team visit island heralding the beginning of the Air New Zealand Environment Trust nursery expansion sponsorship   "..The Air New Zealand Environment Trust ...

2. Jim Holdaway Conservation Award
(News/Current News)

... nursery through the seed of your kindness you have planted on Motutapu and within all of us who work there. Trev has had a long involvement with conservation with involvement in the projects on Tiri ...

3. ANZET - Our New Sponsor
(News/Current News)

... of a major sponsorship deal with the Motutapu Restoration Trust. The funding will enable the Trust to expand the island nursery and double the forest footprint on Motutapu. " July 2010 Air ...

4. July 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

... native trees and plants, built a nursery to raise seedlings, controlled pests, collected seeds and cleared thousands of weeds. It's an unremitting task and someone's got to do the dirty work. After returning ...

5. November 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

Carol and Abby How on earth would we ever meet our Nursery targets if it were not for this ace Mother and daughter team !! Names: Carol and Abby Occupations Office Manager and High School ...

6. December 2009
(Get Involved/Volunteer Profiles)

Glenys and Val These girls are two of our very favourite nursery regulars !! Glenys and Val also take a keen interest in heritage aspects of the island (they just love that old stone staircase that ...

7. US Navy Magazines
(Heritage/Military)

... Trust nursery including this example pictured below.   The 'Bunkers' post war and today  After the war, in the early 1950s, the magazines were used to store wool by the New Zealand Wool Board ...

8. Auckland Heritage Festival
(Projects & Events/Events)

... Motutapu. The Trust runs regular volunteer days on the island for volunteers to participate in conservation activities such as tree planting, nursery work and weed control. The Trust is also in the process ...

9. 2010 Heritage Festivals
(Projects & Events/Events)

... and cultural landscapes' of Motutapu. The Trust runs regular volunteer days on the island for volunteers to participate in conservation activities such as tree planting, nursery work and weed control. ...

10. Auckland Heritage Festival
(News/Notices / Updates)

... as tree planting, nursery work and weed control. The Trust is also in the process of forming a group of volunteers to work on the military aspect of the restoration project. Ask your volunteer guides for ...

11. Motutapu Medication
(News/Current News)

... eradication will be successful and that the existing and newly planted forest will flourish as a result. The MRT, who have been busy raising funds, building and running an island based nursery to raise ...

12. Post War Timeline
(About Us/The Island)

... Duke of Edinburgh, representing sponsor World Wildlife Fund, opens the island nursery and plants tree Motutapu Restoration Trust begins Island restoration and revegetation programme. A major community ...

13. Kings Plant Barn
(Get Involved/Sponsors)

Kings Plant Barn, New Zealand and Auckland's leading Garden Centre. They supply tools for both our nursery and weedbusting activities.  ...

14. Scotts
(Get Involved/Sponsors)

Scotts, leaders in control release fertilisers,  provide our nursery operations Osmocote, a water soluble nutrient.  ...

15. Air New Zealand Environment Trust
(Get Involved/Sponsors)

Air New Zealand Environment Trust. You can donate to the Trust when you book your Air New Zealand flight. ANZET are generously sponsoring our nursery expansion which will allow us to accelerate ...

16. Daltons
(Get Involved/Sponsors)

Daltons supply all your garden and landscaping requirements. They supply our Gardiner Gap nursery with seed raising mix ...

17. Harrison Grierson
(Get Involved/Sponsors)

Harrison Grierson is one of Australasia's leading advisory and design organisations. They provide the Trust probono surveying services for our nursery expansion  ...

18. Volunteer on Motutapu
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... get involved in tree planting, weed control, nursery work and all sorts of other activities. We mostly do it on the first, third and fifth Sunday right throughout the year (except public holiday weekends) ...

19. The Nursery Expansion
(Projects & Events/Projects)

. Air New Zealand Environment Trust Motutapu Island Nursery   The Air New Zealand Environment Trust (ANZET) has entered into a two year sponsorship term to provide funding to our Trust for the ...

20. Nursery Diary
(Restoration/Ecological)

What's Happening in the Nursery ?   Our Nursery is located at the Islington Bay end of the island with views looking out across to Auckland's North Shore and over Gardiner Gap to Rangitoto. The ...

21. Tree Planting Diary
(Restoration/Ecological)

... A team of 48 volunteers planted 1100 two/three year old natives from the Trust nursery. In a few years time this planted area will provide a superb backdrop to the camp ground. On the 2nd August a real ...

22. Fencing Diary
(Restoration/Ecological)

... a priority - then shelter belts. Wetland areas - West Point, Pig Bay, Rakino, MOEC, Central Gully, Station Bay, Home Bay,Mullet Bay, Sandy Bay. October 2009 The new fencing around the nursery is completed ...

23. The DUAL2010
(Projects & Events/Events)

... volunteers. If you are one of our regular island restoration volunteers - take a break from the summer nursery and weeding work, enjoy a different volunteering experience on Motutapu. if you've never visited ...

24. Motutapu Radio Repeater
(Projects & Events/Projects)

... get done. Ability to know what is going on re equipment and plant transfers from school house/nursery to activity areas. Ability for parties to notify each other re possible delays and health/safety ...

25. About Us
(About Us/About Us)

... Motutapu Restoration Trust is a charitable trust which aims to restore the cultural and natural landscape of Motutapu. We undertake tree planting, nursery work, weed control and historic site preservation. ...

26. Our Achievements
(About Us/The Trust)

... of possums and wallabies from Rangitoto and Motutapu by the  Department of Conservation Fenced off forest remnants on the coastal fringe and inland Built a nursery to raise native plants on the island ...

27. Island Flora
(About Us/The Island)

... In the past 16 years approximately 75 hectares have been planted with over 400,000 native saplings raised in the Trust's island nursery by volunteers. The Home Bay Forest is the largest area of native ...

28. Volunteer Activities
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much" - Helen Keller OUR MAIN VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES : Nursery Work This work involves pricking out native seedlings from seed trays into ...

29. Volunteer Days
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... to volunteer, you may be interested in our 'Make a Weekend of it' Tree planting started in May and continues through September. With the nursery literally bursting at the seams we are looking for ...

30. Tree Planting - How to Guide
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... seed in our own nursery at Gardiner Gap (south western end of Motutapu) have had a long road and heaps of volunteer effort to get to where they are. One tree planted to survive is way better than two carelessly ...

31. Make a Weekend of It !
(Get Involved/Volunteer)

... Motutapu (approx 3 hours - 4 hours if you take the Rangitoto Coastal Track option. If you want to do it all e.g summit Rangitoto, lunch at Islington Bay, visit the Trust Nursery on Motutapu, check out ...

32. Our Beginnings
(About Us/The Trust)

... Fund for Nature New Zealand sponsored the establishment of a nursery to provide the trees for the forest planting. The native plant nursery was opened on the island on March 1992 by the international ...

33. Facilities & Activities
(Tourism and Recreation/Facilities & Activities)

... to do and see: Archaeological sites WWII military sites Coastal and farm walks Walk Motutapu (Walkway) Tree planting and restoration projects Restoration Trust nursery Motutapu Outdoor ...

34. Whats happening in the Nursery
(Category)

35. The Nursery
(Section)

36. About Us
(Section)

... include seed collecting, native tree planting, nursery work, weed control and historic site, restoration, preservation and interpretation The restoration programme offers an excellent opportunity for ...