by Save the Kiwi | Jul 8, 2023 | Everyday Kiwis
Al Grant is used to working long hours and in unpredictable environments. By day (and often by night), the police senior sergeant spends his time keeping the streets of South Auckland safe. But in his downtime, he volunteers his time to keeping kiwi safe. Al’s kiwi...
by Save the Kiwi | Feb 9, 2023 | Case Studies, Everyday Kiwis, Jobs for Nature, Kiwi Champions
Miro Parsonson hasn’t heard a kiwi calling near his family home for at least a decade. As a child, the 29-year-old remembers falling asleep to the shrill calls of kiwi in the forest that surrounds the home his parents built from scratch deep in the Far North’s...
by Save the Kiwi | Jul 20, 2022 | Everyday Kiwis
“Kiwi numbers in Whangārei Heads wouldn’t be anywhere near where they are without the support of volunteers.” Luke Ogle lives and breathes the environment. Born and raised in rural Northland, he spent a lot of time as a kid in the great outdoors, planting native trees...
by Save the Kiwi | Apr 7, 2022 | Everyday Kiwis
For Aaron Power, conservation is a way of life. Right from a very young age he always had one foot in the bush. A few decades on and now with kids of his own, doing what he can to protect Aotearoa’s environment for future generations remains a top priority. “The bush...
by Save the Kiwi | Feb 22, 2022 | Everyday Kiwis, Jobs for Nature
For many New Zealanders, the opportunity to work in the outdoors all day every day is what dreams are made of. For Māia Gibbs, the appeal of the outdoors has always run deep. The 21-year-old was born and bred on her family’s farm in Tongapōrutu, northern Taranaki. She...
by Save the Kiwi | Nov 29, 2021 | Crèche, Everyday Kiwis
Carol Larson is a volunteer at the Save the Kiwi kiwi crèche in Napier. As it turns out, her love of volunteering goes right back to when she was a child. Volunteering is in Carol Larson’s blood. As a child growing up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts in the United States,...
