At the heart of Wānaka, you’ll find a community passionate about looking after the environment and giving back to the people and places that make it so special.
Below are the different ways you can help celebrate Wānaka and support our mission to leave this place even better than we found it.
Love Wānaka is a giving platform born from a shared love for this place and a collective commitment to protecting what makes it so special.
It connects locals, visitors, and businesses through one simple idea: when we care for this place, we care for each other.
Love Wānaka channels that care into action — supporting grassroots environmental mahi across our region, from restoring native habitats to protecting our waterways and nurturing biodiversity. It’s part of a wider movement within our community to safeguard the environment at the heart of our home, and it’s an invitation for visitors to join us in looking after the places they’ve come to enjoy.
To Love Wānaka means that you value being conscious about the decisions you make and how they impact this place, now and into the future.