What the Tiaki Promise is about: see how we care

Tiaki means to care for people and place. The Tiaki Promise is a commitment to care for New Zealand, for now, and for future generations.

New Zealand is precious, and everyone who lives and travels here has a responsibility to look after it. By following the Tiaki Promise, you are making a commitment to New Zealand. To act as a guardian, protecting and preserving our home.

Nau Mai, Haere Mai Ki Aotearoa,

Welcome to New Zealand

Conservation project Children's Bay Park

Children’s Bay Park is a 200 Hectare peninsula of land located in Akaroa Harbour just 80 minutes from Christchurch. It is a beautiful piece of land surrounded by two harbours. Approximately 100 Hectares is in the native bush. The other half of the land is an operating farm running a small high-quality herd of Angus cattle that graze the grass faces and ridges.

Spaceships has been involved for many years now helping to replant areas of the property, re-fence the gullies so the native plants can grow, create wetlands to help filter any stock runoff and provide habitat for local birdlife, pest trapping and more recently public walking tracks.

Replanting native plants

Over the last 10 years, over 25,000 plants have been planted. These plants include flaxes, Totora, Redwoods, Nikau palms, Kanuka, Manuka, and various grasses. All this planting along with the pest trapping has helped the native bird population make a great recovery.

Multiple new fence lines have been installed and several ponds and wetlands created with many more to come. More recently we created a walking trail that links the township of Takamatua to Akaroa. This has now become a popular short walk with spectacular views of the harbours on both sides.

Over 25,000 plants have been planted at our conservation project in Akaroa

Experience this conservation project on the free walking track

The Children’s Bay Walk or ‘The Rhino Walk’ (named after the life-size sculpture of a Rhino at the top of the hill) has become a popular free walk for locals and visitors and we encourage all our Space Travellers to drive over to Akaroa and walk the track. Keep your eyes open for a family of giraffes also!

Spend the night at the campsite

Akaroa is a highlight in the Canterbury region and a great place to spend a night or two. There is a great TOP 10 campsite and plenty of other accommodation options, beautiful restaurants, a quaint seaside town with a relaxed vibe, plus a world-class trip to go swim with the worlds smallest dolphins, which is rated as one of the best experiences in New Zealand.

The Children’s Bay Walk is a popular free walk in Akaroa

Thank you, Space Travellers

We thank all our customers as your support helps us to continue to reinvest into Children’s Bay Park and enables us to continue to plant, maintain walking tracks and trap pests. We hope you enjoy these recently taken images of the Park and that some of you make it over to Akaroa and go and immerse yourselves in the Park. Happy travels