Welcome to The Tree Council
Trees have a unique place in our environment. Without them, human life as we know it would not exist. Trees conserve water, make our air breathable, absorb air pollution, and form the hub of enormous underground micro-environments that strengthen soil and foster insect life.
The Tree Council is a long-standing non-profit organisation established in 1986 to act as a steward for the trees of the Auckland region in New Zealand. The Tree Council exists to protect, conserve and improve the tree cover in the Auckland region, especially in urban areas.
JOIN / DONATE TO US and help protect Auckland’s trees.
If you need URGENT HELP with tree related issues click here.
If you want to search the Unitary Plan yourself to check if the trees are protected click here to find out how.
Auckland Heritage Festival Event 2026: Kai Rākau heritage food tree tour, BBQ and picnic
Learn all about the Kai Rākau NZ Food Tree Project & collaboration with The Tree Council on a Regional Heritage Fruit Tree Collection – and enjoy a FREE BBQ. All welcome – bookings are required.
This community-led initiative under the umbrella of Sustainable Paremoremo is dedicated to creating a living ‘museum orchard’. Since 2010, the project has lobbied for land, grafted, gathered and planted heritage fruit, nut, subtropical and native medicinal trees, preserving endangered varieties and to showcase what can thrive in the Auckland region.
The project also helps care for near-forgotten heritage orchard remnants throughout the Upper Waitematā, supporting biodiversity, community wellbeing, and the sharing of traditional food-growing and Rongoā Māori knowledge.
Join us for a family-friendly picnic and free barbecue among the heritage fruit trees, followed by a guided walk exploring the collection of food and medicinal plants. The event will take place on Saturday 17 October 2026. Please gather from 11.30am in Sanders Reserve at the corner of Merewhira (off Paremoremo Road) and Sanders Road. You can read more about the event here.
Bookings are required – please fill in the registration form here (so we know how many sausages to buy): https://forms.gle/AFETqT4yQw7ZWnyB6
and you can support us with a koha if you’d like to via this form: https://treecouncil.org.nz/donations/walk-koha/
Please support The Tree Council by joining or donating
The Tree Council thanks you for your interest in our work. If you would like to support us more, then please consider joining or donating. If you would like to join please click here. You will automatically be sent a receipt, which minimises our admin, so we would really appreciate everyone please using this link. Huge thanks to everyone who has made a donation in the last year – we really appreciate your support. Memberships run from 1 April to March 31, so renewals are now due.
We welcome donations to support our work, especially regular monthly donations, as this makes us more effective. We couldn’t take on legal challenges such as the judicial review of the schedule resourcing decision, or the Huia Water Treatment Plant appeal without your support.
The Tree Council is a registered Charity #CC34632. Donations (not membership payments) are valid for IRD Donation Rebate of 1/3rd.
Many thanks for your ongoing support. We cannot do our work without it.
Take Action
If you want to protect the trees on your own property click here to find out how to place a covenant on the title.
If you want to nominate a tree to be scheduled please fill in our online form here and we will do an assessment to see if it qualifies and make the nomination if it does. You can click here to download the Scheduling Criteria to see what kind of trees may qualify for scheduling.
PETITIONS and FUNDRAISING:
Please sign the petition to restore general tree protection.
Please donate to help pay for our legal costs and expert witnesses for the Environment Court appeal of Plan Change 94 at UNITEC in Carrington Road. Please pay by direct credit to our ANZ account: 11-5462-0230022-11.
Please donate to help pay our expert witnesses for the Environment Court appeal of the helipad consent at 38 Rawene Rd, Westmere. Please pay by direct credit to our ANZ account: 11-5462-0230022-11.
Are you confused about the regulations concerning Auckland’s Trees? Well you are not alone! We are working to protect Auckland’s trees but we need your help. Join The Tree Council today and help us advocate for better tree protection for our urban forest.
