Reducing our carbon footprint

We are measuring, offsetting and reducing our carbon footprint. We have a number of initiatives and are working with suppliers to inspire them to do the same - down to recycling old banners to be made into items for everyday use.

Also, every flight includes a donation to the Rarakau Rainforest Conservation Project - Southland, Aotearoa.

This consists of a protected area of 738ha of Māori owned tall indigenous rainforest, in Southland. A wet rainforest that is adjacent to Fiordland National Park on the very southern coastline of the South Island, and located at the start of the Hump Ridge Track. The forest has a tawhai (silver beech) canopy, intermixed with miro and tōtara.

The forest is now protected by a conservation covenant. It is supplying Aotearoa-New Zealand's first (and so far only) carbon offsets from tall indigenous rainforest.

This project produces 2,458 tCO2 carbon offsets annually, certified to the Plan Vivo standard confirming that the carbon benefits are real, measured, reported, verified. No double counting has occurred. Its carbon offsets are issued by Markit Environmental Registry in London (the world's leading environmental registry).

Thanks to Ekos - a social enterprise that develops, pilots and scales up innovative approaches to financing a sustainable future.

Shoutout to Tomas Sobek for his great images of Aotearoa.