Volunteer Welcome Session

Do you want to feel part of a community? Want to give back in a way that boosts mental health and helps nature? Urban Ark - Manawa Taiao is seeking volunteers who want to contribute to our mission to increase native biodiversity through community action.

This two-hour session is an intro to our work and our community. You will:

• Discover what Urban Ark is all about and where we are active: essentialy the central Auckland isthmus

• Learn how to safely set and check rat and possum traps (optional if that's not your thing)

• Become familar with key pest plants (weeds) and find out why they are a problem

• Hear how we go about controlling weeds

• Find out about planting native speices, both pioneer plantings and enrichment plantings

• Learn how and where you can help

• Share tea and biscuits while chatting to Urban Ark staff and other volunteers

• See the impact of weeding, planting and trapping on a small patch of urban ngahere