Supporting Environmental Community Groups
to Reach Their Full Potential
Restore Rodney East is all about weaving connections between environmental groups, local stakeholders, and the wider community across eastern Rodney, from Puhoi in the south to Te Arai in the north, in the upper Auckland region. By working together, we’re nurturing lasting, positive change for our local ecosystems and the people who care for them.
Why Restore Rodney East?
Since the early 2000s, there has been a growing national awareness of the impacts of invasive species and human development on our precious and unique ecosystems of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local groups and organisations across Rodney East have worked for many years to protect and enhance the natural environment and the many unique ecosystems our community values.
Currently, there are more than forty Rodney East initiatives ranging from large landscape-scale programmes with fully formed governance and funding models, right down to individuals conducting heroic solo efforts to improve those ecosystems. An identified challenge is to ensure this effort and good work can be sustained and grown, and potential gaps and overlaps within and between activities are minimised. More than ever, we must acknowledge, nurture and nourish current and historic work undertaken across Rodney East to improve environmental outcomes.
Behind the RRE Logo Kererū Design
Kererū
They are symbolic of guardianship. Kererū and Parea are now the only bird species big enough to swallow large fruit, of trees such as karaka, tawamiro, and taraire, dispersing the seed over huge distances. The disappearance of these iconic birds could be a widespread disaster for the regeneration of our native forests.
Fish - Kokopu / Inanga or Eel
Represent healthy rivers and streams, freshwater management and biodiversity.These species rely on streamside cover to provide cool, sheltered habitat. Water temperature and clarity, dissolved oxygen, toxic substances and nutrients all have an effect on the feeding, spawning and health of fish.
Koru
The Koru is a symbol of new life, regeneration, growth and harmony. The shape is commonly associated with the unfurling of a fern frond. The Koru is reflective of the earth’s elements, sun, water, and soil of which all life depends.
Mountains & Rivers
Representing the land, trees, rivers and native species that depend on our native flora and fauna. It is a taonga (treasure) that does much to define us both locally and as a nation. This provides habitat for all of our native species.
Land / Sea / Hand
The hand holds and supports everything, representing the collaboration of RRE, working together with community groups, who are passionate about the environment. Papatūānuku (Earth Mother), is land which emerged from the sea giving life to all things. Seabirds, shellfish, fish and other animals depend on the health of the land, for the health of the sea.
