 Kelda, maineis Hamish Febe. I am the Regional Coordinator for Conservation Volunteers New Zealand in Christchurch. I've worked with CBNZ for two years. We have lots of different projects throughout the Canterbury region. The kind of activities that our volunteers are involved in is not only planting trees, but we also do a lot of releasing or weeding around plants. We organise rubbish pick-ups. We do work with threatened species, so we do track work. So anything practical, we love to get stuck under. This year in Christchurch alone, we did 13.6 hectares and we've picked up 4.7 tonnes with a rubbish. We have planted 11,000 trees, which is a phenomenal effort by our volunteers. My name is Eleanor Bissell. We are at Travis Wetland in Christchurch. We've been involved here since 1994, so yes, that's a while. In the late 1970s approximately, this was a dairy farm and now here it is, this wonderful wetland. We need wetlands for our species that are becoming quite rare. Most of our wetlands in Canterbury have disappeared. It's just a wonderful habitat and it's a great place to be. Right from the start it was all volunteers. We've had Conservation New Zealand volunteers. They said, hey, we'll come out and help you too. Hi, I'm Julia from Germany and I'm a volunteer in Conservation Volunteers in New Zealand. I knew I wanted to do some volunteering in conservation because I just wanted to be outside in these nice surroundings and doing some new stuff I never did before. They do weeding and seeding, planting trees, and we were, for example, in Punakaiki in a tree nursery. We planted in two days 400 trees and that was actually really nice. All the people as well, they're very dedicated to their work and it was really nice to got to know them and know that you do something good and giving something back to nature. Yeah, it's nice. My name is Heidi. I come from Switzerland. I'm working here for four weeks. I like this organisation and I like the work in the nature. That's good for me, yes. It's really lovely to have so many different people volunteering and honestly we couldn't do it without volunteers. It's just too much work. It's a very steep mountain that we have to climb but I am hopeful. When there are lots of people out there that are incredibly passionate about conservation, that gives me hope. There's so much work that we can do and we can't do that without the amazing contribution that our volunteers give us. So you guys are awesome. We love you. I think we have to keep plugging at it. It's not something that's going to happen naturally and it's conservation groups and volunteers who are going to be the backbone of it. We can't give up. Thank you so much for watching the video. We are so thankful for all the support we get and we would love it if you would subscribe to the channel by clicking here. Help us continue our journey recording and sharing the music and stories of the world.