SUSTAINABILITY

Our commitment to sustainability

Canyoning New Zealand is focused on meeting the needs of their present without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same. This is our commitment to care for New Zealand, for now and for future generations.

Our commitment to sustainability initiatives affects our everyday work, from simple waste minimisation and recycling efforts to a larger goal of becoming New Zealand’s most sustainable canyoning company.

Canyoning New Zealand is privileged to be able to share these special canyoning locations with our customers.
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We take special care when walking through our beautiful New Zealand landscapes because our lands, the plants and the animals are all precious to us.

Our promise is always to endeavour to enhance the parks use and appreciation and make it accessible to people who may not otherwise use it.

Canyoning New Zealand shares the same objectives as the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC).

It’s important to us to prevent, where possible, the further decline or loss of indigenous species from both within the park and adjacent lands and waters and to support the communities actions for protecting threatened species.

Tiaki – Our duty of care for people and places!

When we are born, we are born as kaitiaki (Guardians) of the whenua (land).  It’s up to us as people to preserve, honour and take care of our surroundings.  Being up close and personal to nature, we can connect with our customers and our environment.

• We pick up and drop off right beside council recycling bins to ensure any rubbish on trips is easily recycled effectively.
• Committed to limiting the amount of single use plastic by using washable cups for refreshments and restaurants for our lunch inclusions.
• Educate staff around the use of power and office resources to minimise our usage where ever possible.
• Our vehicle fuel use is limited by providing one central pick up and drop off location for customers.
• At our operations base we have separate recycling bins for paper/cardboard, glass and plastic.
• We monitor the use of water by using measured amounts for washing our wetsuits and the sun for drying them.
• Our wetsuit detergent is measured and biodegradable.
• We run staff team building rubbish pick up days out at our canyoning sites each season.
• Our canyoning maintenance days include the removal of any wilding pine trees.
• Our company owns pest control traps that are set and cleared regularly.
• We encourage our customers to donate a small amount with their ticket price that we use to purchase and plant trees.
• We hold staff team building tree planting days to plant the trees donated by our customers.

We have calculated our carbon footprint for fossil fuels at 5 tonnes of Co2.

Help us reduce our carbon footprint!

Every dollar counts! – Donate $5 towards new trees that we plant to help off set our carbon emission.

To prove our commitment to off-setting our impact, we promise to purchase and plant up to our goal of 230 trees needed this year to ensure this happens.