EcoResto

Helping landowners turn marginal agricultural land into sustainable natural assets

Around 75% of New Zealand’s landscapes have been re-purposed for human activities. While this has given New Zealand a considerable amount of economic prosperity it has come at a tremendous cost to our native species and natural environment. Our flora and fauna have cultural and environmental value as well as (a vastly underrated) economic value often overlooked in the pursuit of commercial success. We aim to work with landowners and stakeholders to identify pockets of land that are degraded, unproductive, or unprofitable for reversion into native ecosystems.

Our Mission

Fundamental to our ethos is that New Zealand, after ~65 million years of isolation, became a repository of some of the highest levels of biodiversity on earth. Around 80% of our native flora and fauna doesn’t exist anywhere else on the planet. Unfortunately, since human habitation a very large number of our native species no longer exist here in New Zealand either. Moreover, our land practices impact the quality of our streams, rivers, estuaries and oceans. While some things we just are unable to undo, there is a real opportunity for us, as guardians of the land, to take a stance that is more deferential to the native ecosystems that were in place in New Zealand long before we were.

Our mission is to make things better today than they were yesterday and better tomorrow than they are today.

It’s that simple.