Protecting Nature

Creative Adventures integrates responsible, low impact policies into all aspects of our private and small group New Zealand tours.

If we look after the Earth ~ the land, air, oceans and waterways, and all the creatures that inhabit them with us, the Earth will sustain us for countless generations. Thus we have a strong commitment to preserving and improving our natural environment.

Despite being renowned as a "clean and green" nation, the New Zealand landscape and biodiversity have to contend with a multitude of threats ~ most of them due to human activity and introduced predators. The New Zealand government's Department of Conservation and a variety of conservation groups work hard to preserve our native flora and fauna.

International travel and tourism, like most human activities, produces CO2 emissions. Some tourism activities and services have the potential to damage the environment that visitors come to enjoy. Being a small-group tour operator, our impacts on natural places will easily be less than large coach tours.

In operating our business we take as many steps as possible to minimise our emissions of CO2, including the use of late-model, fuel-efficient vehicles. Our office processes minimise the use of energy, paper and other resources. All staff are working to achieve our stated Sustainable Business objectives:

• Minimise our impact on wildlife and natural places
• Minimise our contribution to landfills, air/water/soil pollution, climate change
• Minimise our impact on, and contribute to, communities around New Zealand
• Sustain the ability of future generations to enjoy what we have today
• Minimise our use of community and government resources
• Provide an enjoyable, educational, natural and authentic experience to guests
  

Please click here to view our Sustainable Business Policy (PDF).

We prefer to select activities that do not damage environmental values and work with operators who practice the same sentiments. However, we understand that despite all our efforts we can't be "impact neutral". The best way we can mitigate our impact is to act and contribute in other non-business ways.

We commit our personal time and money to local and national conservation issues. Also, built into our tour pricing is an amount for "Conservation funds". These funds are donated to a variety of local and national community-lead conservation organisations. They include:

Friends of Flora Valley Friends of Flora are a grass-roots conservation group in the Nelson province. The members of this group volunteer their time to protect the natural habitat of the "Whio" (blue duck) and other endangered native species of the Flora Valley in the Kahurangi National Park. If you tour the Nelson area with us you may meet them personally. We think you would enjoy the wilderness of the Flora Valley and learning about the Friends excellent pest-prevention work.

Pohatu Penguin Colony

Francis and Shireen Helps protect the White-flippered Penguin Colony on their farm at Pohatu-Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch. Ten years of their dedication, including trapping of introduced predators and creation of nesting boxes, have seen an encouraging increase in penguin numbers.

Friends of Nelson Haven & Tasman Bay Protecting the Nelson and Marlborough regions' increasingly threatened estuaries, shores and coastal waters since 1973.   The Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society New Zealand’s largest independent conservation organisation with members nation-wide earning the respect of politicians and the public.

See our Links page for more information about these organisations.
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Creative Adventures New Zealand
Email: info@creativeadventuresnz.com
Phone: +64(0)3-218-7581
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18 Lees Street, Gladstone, Invercargill 9810, Southland, New Zealand