Hey Blue Kicker, when you live Down in the sun with the sweet two weeks Hey Blue Kicker, what do you mean Down in the sun with the kicker, yeah Bass, bells, basses, sweet and trimmer, sun, that's what I eat My name is Helmish Ferben, I am the regional coordinator for conservation volunteers in New Zealand in Prussia, I've worked with CBNZ for two years We have lots of different projects throughout the Canberra region So the kind of activities that our volunteers are involved in There's not only planting trees, but we also do a lot of releasing or sort of weeding around plants We organise rubbish pickups, we do work with threatened species, we do track work So anything practical, we love to get stuck in there This year in Christchurch alone we have weeded 13.6 hectares We've picked up 4.7 tonnes with a rubbish, we have planted 11.000 trees which is a phenomenal effort by our volunteers My name is Eleanor Bissol, we are at Travis Wetland in Christchurch I've been involved here since 1994, so it was our wild In the late 1970s, approximately, this was a dairy farm and now here at Tussles, wonderful wetland We need wetlands for our species that are becoming quite rare Most of our wetlands in Canterbury have disappeared It's just a wonderful habitat and it's a great place to be We're right from the start, it was all volunteers We've had conservation New Zealand volunteers They said, hey, we'll come out and help you too Hi, I'm Julia from Germany and I'm a volunteer in conservation volunteers in New Zealand I knew I wanted to do some volunteering in conservation because I just wanted to be outside and these nice surroundings and doing some new stuff I never did before They do weeding and seeding, planting trees For example, in Puna Kaiki and in a tree nursery We planted in two days, 400 trees and that was actually really nice and all the people as well They're very dedicated to their work and it was really nice to go to know them and know that you do something good and giving something back to nature That's nice, my name is Heidi I come from Switzerland I'm working here for four weeks I like this organisation and I like the work in the nature That's good for me, yes It's really lovely to have so many different people volunteering and honestly we couldn't do it without volunteers It's just too much work It's a very steep mountain that we have to climb but I am hopeful when there are lots of people out there that are incredibly passionate about conservation that gives me hope There's so much work that we can do and we can't do that without the amazing contribution that our volunteers give us So you guys are awesome, we love you I think we have to keep plugging at it and it's going to happen naturally and it's conservation groups and volunteers who are going to be the backbone of it We can't give up