About us
Since 1988, Forest & Bird’s Kiwi Conservation Club | Hakuturi Toa (KCC) has been connecting Kiwi kids to New Zealand’s amazing wildlife and wild places. KCC reaches 10,000 kids throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Join in the fun and help us get the next generation protecting our wildlife and wild places.
Starting at just $24/year, KCC members receive:
Our quarterly Wild Things magazine. The magazines are aimed at ages 5-13 years and make topics like wild rivers, marine reserves and worms understandable, engaging and fun using a range of articles and activities. Each issue also contains calls-to-action, so that kids and families can use their hands, eyes and voice to make a real difference for nature. Download a free pdf of a Wild Things activity and view a Wild Things magazine issue at the bottom of this page!
The opportunity to go on KCC Adventures anywhere in the country alongside their family. In many places around New Zealand, volunteer coordinators (KCOs) arrange outings/meet-ups for members to explore their local beaches, forests and everywhere in between. Some clubs also get involved in local conservation projects like tree planting, creating lizard gardens or making nesting boxes for kororā | little blue penguins.
Entry to our various nationwide challenges, projects and competitions; to be a KCC Reporter on our blog; and to maybe even get published in Wild Things!
Click here to renew your KCC membership!
Volunteering with KCC
‘KCO’ stands for ‘KCC Coordinator’. KCOs are an integral part of the Kiwi Conservation Club. KCOs are volunteers – they are regular people who are passionate about sharing the natural world with children and their families. There are no set qualifications or skills a person must have to become a KCO. A KCO’s role is to run interesting, fun outdoor (and sometimes indoor) trips for local KCC members and their families.
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form here!
We’re looking for KCC Reporters to tell us about their favourite wildlife & wild places.
KCC reporters are children of all ages who send us stories, photos, videos & drawings about their favourite wildlife and wild places. You can send these in an email to kccinbox@forestandbird.org.nz, or post us a drawing in the mail, you can send it to Wild Things, PO Box 631, Wellington 6140.
You can send in anything – a written story, a movie, some photos, a drawing, a poem – or any kind of creation! You could tell us about your latest KCC adventure, draw a picture of your favourite animal, plant or habitat, write a story about New Zealand’s weird and wonderful wildlife or do an interview with someone who also loves nature.
"At the end of last autumn, I found a praying mantis and kept her for a pet. Then she laid eggs in a foam called ootheca which I think is a cool word! We found out she eats flies, caterpillars and worms 🐛. She laid three ootheca and we waited for them to hatch in spring.
While Molly sadly passed away, her ootheca hatched – the baby praying mantises were tiny and we expected them to be green, but they were brown / transparent. We popped them in our herb garden because we have an aphid problem and we’re hoping they will help us control them."