Catchment Care is an exciting initiative between Fonterra and Conservation Volunteers New Zealand to enhance our country's valuable waterways
and wetlands.
Our teams of volunteers have been working on water care projects across the country. They've been preventing erosion by planting and fencing along streamlines, weeding to remove invasive plants from waterways, controlling pests, collecting seeds and clearing rubbish. And it's not only our waterways that are benefitting. Planting trees re-establishes natural habitats for endangered animal and bird life, builds carbon reserves and gives back to
New Zealand's local communities. It's an initiative we're proud to be part of.
With an eye on the future, we've set an impressive target:
to enhance over 2,000,000 square metres of New Zealand waterways, wetlands and catchment zones by July 2012.
To achieve it, we'll be working in rural areas alongside landowners, regional councils, community groups and environmental agencies on projects that span the length and breadth of New Zealand.
With such a big goal in mind, we're on the lookout for keen volunteers. If you share our passion for the environment and would like to pitch in, let us know.

I was part of the Fonterra Team who assisted with the programme at Richard Dwyers property in Taranaki last week. Despite the weather and the terrain, we all had an enjoyable time. The rain held off but the wind didn't abate but once we got down into the lake gully, we were well sheltered and n
Gillian King