Ever wanted to know what environmental activities are
happening in your area?
Where your closest local
community group to become involved with is?
Been
wanting to learn how to take action in your backyard to
enhance the natural environment?
Auckland Council’s
conservation website Tiaki Tāmaki Makaurau | Conservation
Auckland gives answers to all those
questions.
Launching today, this one-stop shop is
ready just in time to support Conservation
Week.
“The newly created website helps
Aucklanders to do good for conservation by providing them
the tools and knowledge to take action to protect and
improve the natural environment,” says Councillor Richard
Hills, Chair of the Environment and Climate Change
Committee.
The new site provides resources readily
available to groups and the public to promote and grow
effective and responsible conservation practices across the
region.
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