Projects
Projects are a way to pool your observations with other people on NatureWatch NZ. Whether you're interested in starting a citizen science project or just keeping tabs on the birds in a nearby park with your local birding club, Projects are the way to go.
Recently active projects from New Zealand
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Intertidal Zone
This project covers all records of living organisms (animals and algae) in the coastal zone between low and...
Kereru Discovery
The Kererū Discovery is a conservation project focusing on the kererū - New Zealand’s iconic native pigeo...
Kea Monitoring
Kea numbers are dropping and they are now a Nationally Endangered species. Finding out how many are left an...
Kārearea NZ Falcon monitoring
Kārearea, the New Zealand Falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae) is the only remaining bird of prey endemic to New ...
CoastBlitz New Plymouth
CoastBlitz is a BioBlitz on the coast. It aims to explore and document what lives there.
Here’s how it w...
Ecol202 Biodiversity Coast-to-Coast 2015 and later
Each year, Lincoln University's second year biological diversity class goes on a three-day "Biodiversity Co...
Backyard Biodiversity Bugs in Lincoln
This project aims to make people more aware of the invertebrate (insects, spiders, etc) biodiversity that l...
Blue Fleet Monitoring NZ
We know that the whole of the blue fleet landed in NZ Feb 2016 so this project is for recording other Blue ...
Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve
The purpose of this project is to provide an ongoing, accessible record of the marine life observed in the ...
Recently created projects from New Zealand
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Collection locations
Collection sites
Chatham Island Group
This project documents observations of both exotic and indigenous flora and fauna of the terrestrial and ma...
NZ Plant Phenology
This a project to encourage everyone in New Zealand to add phenology fields to your plant observations.
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Ranfurly Bay Scenic Reserve
listing and naming anything that lives and breathes in this area :)
Spartina invasions
This project will help with detecting Spartina invasions for weed control
Spartina (commonly known as co...
BioBlitz Bell Block Kaitiaki
This project has been set up for the Kaitiaki Group at Puketapu School. The aim is to record species found ...
RNZ Nights for Nature
Provide a conduit between RNZ and its audience for talking about nature.
Nature here is the inhabitants ...
Bush City bioblitz
How many insects, birds, fungi, and plants are now living in Te Papa's Bush City? We know what species wer...
