EcoTiki New Zealand

About

EcoTiki Adventures Tours is located 30 mins drive north east of Rotorua city. Let your imagination guide through this pristine landscape of adventure.

Story

Kia Ora from New Zealand the youngest country on the planet. EcoTiki Adventure Tours welcomes its friends, visitors and current guest to one of the most enlightening experiences available to everyone young and old in New Zealand Aotearoa.

Committed to the protection and preservation of the natural ecology of the land, its water ways, it’s native plant and wild life.

EcoTiki Adventures Tours offers it’s visitors a chance to experience one of New Zealand’s pristine, secluded hideaways through exploration, adventure, sacred journey’s and cultural Emerson.

From horseback riding across hill ranges of Te Arawa region to the spiritual journey of the Ataahua Valley.
You could take part in the loves and lives of the Maori people of Te Arawa, Share in songs, dance, feasts, and ancient tales to Maori star lore.

This is an experience you will not get anywhere else in the world. Unique and authentic Maori experiences, stories and adventures designed to create lasting memories.

We seek to:
• Minimize Waste,
• Promote Recycling,
• Use eco-friendly products
• Reduce our Energy consumption and carbon footprint.
• Minimise our impact on the marine life.

Annually agreed strategic objectives and departmental targets within the company's business plan underpin our commitment and are regularly reviewed and monitored for effectiveness.

Where financially viable, we give preference to suppliers who themselves have sound environmental policies and practices.

Education is an important aspect of the experience we deliver and something we have spent a lot of time and capital on, with our aim being to send our customers away knowing that they have learnt something new about the natural environment around us and how precious such land, waterways, mountains and marine life is right down to the air we breathe to the seedlings we see.

We at EcoTiki Adventure Tours work hard to support our environment by undertaking a number of actions, environmental management programmes and adopting best practice protection and prevention policies.

This policy and all relevant obligations and responsibilities have been communicated throughout the organisation. If you are interested to know about what we do, please feel free to ask us.

Conservation, Protection and Preservation Commitment.
The people behind EcoTiki Adventure Tours have a very big and exciting vision. EcoTiki’s Maori Ora Canopy Tour is built deep in virgin native forest only 45 minutes drive from the outskirts of Rotorua.

It is a magnificent 950 hectare Reserve owned by Te Aonui Whanau Trust. Rotorua is the main tourist destination in the North Island hosting up to 3 million domestic and international visitors every year.

The forest is exactly as the early humans to New Zealand would have discovered on their arrival to these shores. However the introduction of humans and introduced mammals has had devastating consequences to our native forest.

Those that weren't cut down for their valuable timber, have been infested by introduced mammals such as rats, possums and stoats which every night kill approximately 70,000 birds in the New Zealand forests.

These introduced mammals are a major reason for the extinction of over 40% of our native birds. It is a major problem and one that certainly needs more political attention and resources.

However throughout the country there are numerous examples of successful conservation programmes where forested areas are being rejuvenated and the bird song slowly returned.

The problem many conservation projects face is they rely solely on volunteer programmes and donations. This makes progress slow and valuable resources tied up in trying to make the project happen rather than making it happen.

At EcoTiki Adventure Tours we have a big vision. We want to return the forest to a pre human state for all New Zealanders and international visitors to enjoy and for it to become a shining example of what can be achieved with some different approaches.

Our vision is that visitors in the future to Rotorua can come and experience this superb example of rejuvenated New Zealand forest complete with its intact bird chorus. Whether they enjoy it by taking part in our Tours or on the multitude of public walking trails we hope to install is beside the point.

Rather than rely on volunteers every customer on our Tours partly contributes to the programme. As we increase its awareness and as the community realizes this is actually happening we will encourage corporate sponsorship and other ways to encourage additional funds.

We hope this to become a forest of national significance.
Along the way customers on the EcoTiki Adventure Tours will learn about this project and hopefully be inspired to follow its progress in the years to come.

We hope to create an awakening to not only the problems that exist, but also the innovative and inspirational ways in which we can go about sorting those problems out.

So how are we doing so far – When we started in August 2012 customers would occasionally hear the sound of a rare North Island Robin deep in the forest. Only 8 months in and after intensive rat trapping we are pleased to say that most tour groups now get a visit on the platforms by these rare North Island Robins – a result of a safer environment to live in. So just imagine it 5 years in……and then 10 years.

Company: EcoTiki Adventure Tours Limited

Location: 38 km North East of Rotorua

Drive Time: 30 minutes

Official Brochure Distributor: http://jasons.co.nz/