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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
IS ECO TOURISM

Driftwood Eco Tours has a simple philosophy, that if you give to the community, the community will give to you. This is the spirit of eco tourism and we would like to thank all of the people who are making our special journey possible since 2004.

Just click on the first photo below and scroll using the arrow on the right for a captioned slide show

Team at the Kaikoura A&P Show supporting pure New Zealand wool.

Terry Savage of D'Urville Island talks on Māori artefacts.

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Awatere Early Childhood Learning Hub

Leaning about paua processing at Chathams Island Food Company.

Sze Wing shows our clients a dead kiore, native rat.

Tim Wadsworth telling the merino story, at his woolshed in Marlborough.

Driftwood Eco Tours give a prize to the top junior shearer, Beau Cameron, at the Kaikoura A&P Show.

Gregory Webber of Ngāti Koata tells the story of Te Aumiti/French Pass

Maurice Manawatu of Ngāti Kuri, Kaikoura, tells the story of his ancestors.

Jeanette Aplin, author meets and shares her passion for D'Urville Island.

Bex Forgan of Patuki farm, D'Urville Island greets client.

Massive lobster at Chathams Islands' Food Producers.

Clients talk to Roma Elkington on a charter trip of D'Urville Island.

Clients inspect the Chatham Island pool, to which Driftwood Eco Tours donates $1000 for each tour to the island.

Climate Change Action Kids join a community river clean up day organized by Driftwood Eco Tours.

2Marlborough Institute of Technology's horticulture students helped plant some of the 100s of native trees donated to us by Nautilus Wines (Opawa Wines).

Driftwood Eco Tours were invited to see the Marlborough Girls College students project on wetlands.

Will mentoring the our QEII National Trust covenanted wetland.

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Opawa Wines donated hundreds of trees to the QEII National Trust wetland we managed, here we host their US marketing team on a kayak tour. Will gives a pre tour brief about the waterways of the Ōpaoa/Opawa River.

What can we do better?
We would like to know from you what we can do to make your tours more sustainable and interesting.
If you have any ideas we would love to hear from you. Just click on the link below.

Let us know your ideas

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