In June 2024, Oriens teamed up with Project Parore, a community-led environmental restoration organisation which champions sustainable land use and environmental protection at the northern end of the Tauranga Harbour.
Oriens Capital contributed 750 native shrubs and small trees (primarily mānuka and kānuka). The Oriens team rolled up their sleeves to plant them alongside the Project Parore crew, other volunteers from a local school and the landowners at a site in Aongatete, north of Tauranga. The two hectare site was recently retired (from grazing) and is a combination of wetland and steep land with proximity to the northern Tauranga Harbour entrance. This planting day was the start of a larger project on this site which will see 3,500+ native trees and shrubs established in the coming years.
Project Parore works alongside individuals, landowners, hapū and iwi, councils, other community groups and businesses with a key goal to protect and restore land and waterways in the northern Tauranga harbour catchment area. Retiring steep and marginal land, regenerating wetlands and planting stream banks is critical in minimising the sediment load reaching the harbour. This in turn helps to protect and restore habitat and the wildlife that depend on it.
Oriens plans to continue working with Project Parore in future years, and although we do not have the ability to officially offset our operational carbon emissions through this initiative at this time, instead, Oriens’ goal is to make a positive environmental impact locally, contributing to a positive climate future as well as the restoration of land, waterways and habitat in our local community.
