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Intro - Statistics for NZ endangered species (71 birds) https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs19entire.pdf

Para 1./ Ethical shopping app and B-corp company accreditation https://www.ethical.org.au/get-informed/issues/palm-oil/
https://bcorporation.net

Para 2./ Local election candidate policy on environment https://policy.nz/2022

Para 3. / Volunteering locally https://www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/volunteer/groups/auckland/#central-southern-suburbs
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Listed below are some volunteer-based groups that you can get involved with. You'll learn new skills, meet like-minded people, contribute to conservation, and increase your connection to your local community and natural spaces.

For more conservation volunteer opportunities in Auckland volunteer for a DOC project.
View conservation groups in your area
Across the region

Chinese Conservation Education Trust

Aim: To foster a love and understanding of New Zealand's special places, plants and animals among New Zealand's large Chinese community.

Chinese Conservation Education Trust website

Experiencing Marine Reserves

Aim: To raise awareness, understanding and involvement in marine conservation through experiential learning about marine conservation, e.g. guided snorkelling and kayaking for schools, and investigating marine biodiversity via a classroom presentation. Volunteer opportunity: fundraising.
Experiencing Marine Reserves website
New Zealand Bird Rescue Charitable Trust

Aim: To rescue, rehabilitate and release orphaned, sick and injured birds, native and non-native, some 4000-5000 each year. Volunteer opportunities: fundraising.
NZ Bird Rescue Charitable Trust website
New Zealand dotterel and shorebird advocacy and protection

Aim: To protect the New Zealand dotterel and other shorebirds in the Auckland region. There are many breeding and flocking sites for the endangered New Zealand dotterel and other shorebirds. Some of these areas have established community groups working to protect, advocate for and monitor bird populations.

See breeding site contacts for a list of known shorebird breeding sites in the Auckland region that have groups or individuals watching over them.

Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre

Aim: To provide life changing marine environmental education and outdoor experiences for young New Zealanders especially through schools. Volunteer opportunities: fundraising support or take the team to MERC for team building activities.
Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre website
Haurauki Gulf and islands

Glenfern Sanctuary

Aim: To provide a safe haven for endangered native species on the Kotuku Peninsula, including black petrel, brown teal, chevron skink and North Island robin.
Glenfern Sanctuary website
Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters' Trust

Aim: To support and contrribut to the conservation of Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island and its significance as a wildlife sanctuary of international importance.
Hauturu Supporters' Trust website
Motuihe Trust

Aim: To restore, enhance and protect the indigenous flora and fauna and the significant historic sites of Motuihe Island.
Motuihe Trust website
Motu Kaikoura Trust

Aim: To restore Kaikoura Island, a 564 ha island to the west of Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island/Aotea.
Motu Kaikoura Trust website
Motuora Island Restoration Society

Aim: To the native forest habitat on Motuora Island by planting native trees grown from seed collected on the island.
Motuora Restoration Society website
Motutapu Restoration Trust

Aim: To restore the cultural and natural landscape of Motutapu Island.
Motutapu Restoration Trust website
Rangitoto Island Historic Conservation Trust

Aim: To conserve and interpret the historic bach communities on Rangitoto Island for the benefit of all New Zealanders.
Rangitoto Island Historic Conservation Trust website
Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Island

Aim: To restore Tiritiri Matangi Island and establish an open sanctuary for endangered native species.
Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi website
Matakana Coast and Kaipara

CUE Haven native forest restoration

Aim: To restore farmland to native forest on the South Kaipara Harbour.
CUE Haven website
Leigh Penguin Project

Aim: To create a safe habitat for little blue penguins/kororā and other seabirds to thrive along the coast from Ti Point to Goat Island. Forest & Bird's Little Blue Penguin/kororā Project in the Warkworth area.

Email: leighpenguins@gmail.com

Mataia Restoration Project

Aim: To restore 400 ha of coastal native forest margins and saltmarsh wetlands on the Kaipara Harbour.
Mataia Restoration Project website
New Zealand Fairy Tern Charitable Trust

Aim: To support the Fairy Tern Recovery Project initiated by DOC in 1991. Volunteer opportunity: fundraising to support DOC volunteers at all current breeding and wintering grounds, so that participation is affordable to willing helpers.
New Zealand Fairy Tern Charitable Trust website
Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust

Aim: To protect the birds at Omaha Spit, their eggs and chicks, monitor the bird population and raise public awareness.
Omaha Shorebird Protection Trust website
Tamahunga predator trapping group

Aim: To protect native plants and wildlife in the forests of Mount Tamahunga and encourage recolonisation of birds by trapping rodents and mustelids.
Tamahunga trappers Facebook page
Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society Inc (TOSSI)

Aim: To create a refuge for native animals at Tawharanui Regional Park in partnership with the Auckland Council. Volunteer activities include: forest and wetland restoration, re-introduction of threatened species, monitoring animals and plants, pest control, nursery work, education and development of walking tracks.
Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society website
North Shore and Hibiscus Coast

Forts of Auckland

Aim: To preserve the history of the forts by assisting DOC to restore and maintain the historic sites at North Head and Fort Takapuna (Fort Cautley) as significant tourist attractions and areas of public interest.
Forts of Auckland website
Friends of Okura Bush (FOOB)

Aim: To restore an established coastal broadleaf and kauri forest. Volunteer activities include: pest animal and weed control.
Friends of Okura Bush website
Kaipatiki Project native bush restoration

Aim: To protect and restore the Witherford Reserve in Glenfield, North Shore City.
Kaipatiki Project website
Raroa Urban Nature Reserve Project

Aim: To make Raroa an urban nature reserve within the North-West Wildlink, that provides an oasis for skinks and birds, and a place for the community to enjoy.
Raroa Urban Nature Reserve Project on Forest and Bird website
Shakespear Open Santuary Society

Aim: To create an accessible haven for wildlife on Shakespear Regional Park, working with Auckland Council. Volunteer activities include: planting, monitoring, surveying repairing fences, tracks, picnic sites etc.
Shakespear Open Sanctuary Society website
Tuff Crater Restoration Project

Aim: To preserve and restore an extinct volcano in Northcote. Volunteer activities include: pest control - monitoring 55 bait stations, maintaining paths, installing benches, planting and weeding.
Tuff Crater Restoration Project website
Western suburbs, inner Waitemata Harbour

Ark in the Park

Aim: To restore the Cascade Kauri Park in the Waitakere Ranges including reintroducing native animals that would once have thrived in the area. Volunteer activities include: baiting predator traps, stoat trap checking, bird monitoring, weed removal, track maintenance and planting.
Ark in the Park website
Motu Manawa (Pollen Island) Restoration Group

Aim: To preserve one of the few significant wetland bird feeding and breeding grounds remaining in the Waitemata Harbour. Volunteer activities include: predator and pest control, weeding and conducting field studies; lobbying and submissions.
Motu Manawa (Pollen Island) Restoration Group website
Central and southern suburbs and Manukau Harbour

Mangere Mountain Education Trust and Education Centre

Aim: To promote and preserve the mountain as a cultural and educational resource for Maori and Pasifika children. Volunteering activities include fundraising.
Mangere Mountain Education Trust and Education Centre website
Whau River Catchment Trust

Aim: To improve the Whau River ecosystem for a healthier river and streams through community participation and kaitiakitanga. Volunteer activities include: planting native trees and shrubs.
Whau River Catchment Trust website
Eastern suburbs and Franklin

Friends of Mangemangeroa Society

Aim: To maintain and enlarge, with eco-sourced planting, the natural habitats of the Mangemangeroa Valley reserves. Volunteer activities include: removing non-natives, sourcing eco-seedlings, planting and weeding.
Friends of Mangemangeroa Society website
Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre

Aim: To promote awareness of coastal ecology, particularly the migratory shorebirds of the Forth of Thames. Volunteering opportunity: raising funds for research, education, training and active conservation.
Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre
Purewa Restoration Group

Aim: To turn a weed infested rubbish dump in Kohimarama into a beautiful native forest for the community, the second largest area of bush left in the Auckland central area. Volunteer activites include: controlling weeds, planting new natives, track laying and encouraging birdlife to return.
Purewa Restoration Group website
WekaWatch Kawakawa Bay

Aim: To protect the small population of North Island weka at Kawakawa Bay. Volunteer activities include: planting, weeding and pest controlactivities plus monitoring- regular surveys of the weka population in the core area every autumn.
WekaWatch Kawakawa Bay website

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Fri, 11 Jun 2021 - Fri, 11 Jun 2021 | Years 9,10,11,12,13

Students and their whanau are welcome to join the community tree planting day happening this Saturday on Māngere Mountain. The organisers are keen for people to register so they can manage the numbers.
Location - Te Pane o Mataoho / Te Ara Pueru / Māngere Mountain

Saturday 12 June AND Saturday 21 August 2021

10:00am to 1.00pm

Meet at the playground up from the Māngere Memorial Hall

See the website link for more information: https://maunga.nz/news/mahi-on-the-maunga-planting-days

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Palm oil is found in roughly 50 per cent of all packaged products on supermarket shelves including shampoos, baking oil, chocolate, cosmetics, chips, cookies, margarine and soaps.

Unfortunately, not only does palm oil promote heart disease, but the vast plantations that grow oil palm trees have contributed to the destruction of the rainforest of South East Asia and threaten the survival of animals such as the Orangutan in Borneo, the Sumatran tiger, and Asian rhinoceros. Additionally, burning after deforestation accounts for significant greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, it has recently been deemed a potential saviour as a renewable resource for use as a biofuel.

> See the Rainforest Action Network's ' What's your connection to rainforest destruction? ' info-graphic.

It is not always easy to identify products with palm oil, as Food Standards Australia and New Zealand allow it to be labelled simply as 'vegetable oil'. Generally if the saturated fat content is about 50%, there is a good chance that the vegetable oil will in fact be palm oil.
Certifications
Many large food manufacturers have joined the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative that encourages members to buy palm oil from sustainable sources. The RSPO certifies a range of palm oil supply options which vary in their degree of sustainability or environmental impact.

Identity Preserved Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) is oil that's 100% certified sustainable, and fully traceable to a single source.

Segregated CSPO is oil that's 100% certified sustainable from mixed sources.

Mass balance is a combination of certified and uncertified palm oil.

Book and Claim/GreenPalm is essentially a trading scheme whereby certificates are purchased by companies to offset their usage of uncertified palm oil. GreenPalm supports the production of sustainable palm oil - and companies that purchase certificates can make a sustainable claim - but the oil itself from this supply option isn't certified sustainable. 55% of RSPO-certified palm oil sales in 2014 were via GreenPalm.

[text from Choice report]. More details on supply chain options at SPOTT.

Of the four supply chain models above, only Identity Preserved and Segregated allow palm oil to be traced back to its source. Look for these. Mass Balance and Green Palm (Book & Claim) mix oils and use certificates for exchange which has been criticised as ineffectual.
Company progress
The following 'palm oil scorecards' are used in assessments by Shop Ethical!, adding to a company's rating. They show companies' progress in relation to palm oil sourcing.
See the Guardian's 'From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil' interactive.
Labelling in Australia

Palm oil is most commonly labelled generically as 'vegetable oil' which can be any kind of oil like canola or soybean.

In 2009, the 'Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation', made up of Ministers from across Australia and New Zealand, commissioned an independent labelling review. The review was chaired by former Australian Health Minister, Dr. Neal Blewett and involved extensive public consultation with the panel receiving over 6,000 submissions. Their final report, published in 2011 and titled 'Labelling Logic' had 61 recommendations with one of them being the clearer labelling of vegetable oils:
Recommendation 12 - Where sugars, fats or vegetable oils are added as separate ingredients in a food, the terms 'added sugars' and 'added fats' and/or 'added vegetable oils' be used in the ingredient list as the generic term, followed by a bracketed list ... added fats (palm oil, milk fat) or added vegetable oils (sunflower oil, palm oil);
In November 2016 the Victorian Andrews government declared Palm oil labelling a priority. On November 25, 2016 the 'Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation' met to further discuss, notes on progress from this meeting are here.

Net Balance Foundation " Palm Oil in Australia -Facts, Issues and Challenges". Commissioned by WWF-Australia and the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) exploring the challenges surrounding palm oil, and to provide a spring board for efforts to increase the supply of sustainable palm oil into the Australian market. (March 2013)

Choice magazine updated report focusing on the need for 'Palm oil labelling' (May 2013)

WWF Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard 2013 report looks at companies' commitment to, and use of, RSPO certified palm oil.

Greenpeace report ' Certifying Destruction - 'Why consumer companies need to go beyond the RSPO to stop forest destruction' ( September 2013)

More at unseenthemovie.com
In the store
Avoid products containing palm oil

Check the ingredients - see the various names for palm oil here.

Palm oil may be in a product but labelled simply as 'vegetable oil'. An indicator however is if the nutritional panel lists saturated fat and it's higher than 50%, and yet there no animal fat listed as an ingredient, there is likely to be palm kernel oil, palm oil or coconut oil, as a component of 'vegetable oil' (most likely to be palm). If the product contains margarine, it is highly likely that the margarine will have been derived from palm oil.

In cosmetic products, labelling is compulsory, however palm oil is usually labelled as 'Elaeis guineensis'.

For a list of branded products that do not contain palm oil, see the 'Helping you buy responsibly' section on the Borneo Orangutan Survival website.

See OneGreen Planet Responsible Palm Oil Shopping Guide for company responses to whether their products contain palm oil.

Check out Auckland Zoo's palm oil-free shopping guide and wallet card, Easter goodie guide, and study snack guide.

Shop for products with no palm oil or palm oil derivatives at palmoilfreeproducts.com.au

Send a message to manufacturers notifying them of your choices to buy or not to buy their product due to this issue. Use our Shop Ethical! app instore, or see our company profile pages for email addresses.

Choose products from companies that are sourcing RSPO palm oil

The WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard 2013 report assessed the palm oil buying practices of major companies in Europe, Australia and Japan, looking at these companies' commitment to, and use of, palm oil certified to the standards of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Victorian Zoo's Zoopermarket allows you to give feedback to companies for their adoption (or lack of) of certified palm oil.

See Palm Oil Action's Palm Oil Shopping Guide for a brand list of companies who are members of the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil).

About the RSPO - from the RSPO website; and wikipedia outlining some significant limitations and criticisms from various NGOs.

See companies in our database with praises and criticisms in relation to Palm Oil

Choose 'palm oil' button on our 'values screen' page for company assessments
Give feedback

Sign on-line petitions and join existing campaigns on this issues at our Take Action page.

Use emails from our company profile pages to a message to manufacturers and brand-owners about this issue.

Write letters and order 'protest postcards' from palmoilaction.org.au

Get Involved
Campaigns see change! The Dove Onslaught(er) video by Greenpeace, a remix of the Dove Onslaught video, targeted Unilever as the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world. This campaign in 2008 saw Unilever agree to an "immediate moratorium on deforestation for palm oil plantations".

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Palm oil is found in roughly 50 per cent of all packaged products on supermarket shelves including shampoos, baking oil, chocolate, cosmetics, chips, cookies, margarine and soaps.