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  • 30 years of Leave No Trace internationally

    September 25, 2024 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    Leave No Trace New Zealand is part of a global movement that started 30 years ago. LNTNZ is represented at the summit by Chris North, Toni Torepe and Lynette McLeod who are presenting on the project with Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua and mountaineers to get human waste out of the high alpine areas. The summit …

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  • Summer wishes to everyone from LNT

    December 16, 2022 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    The Leave No Trace New Zealand team wishes everyone a wonderful summer in the outdoors. While you are out there lets be careful of our precious places so here are our top tips: Plan Ahead and Prepare- think about where you are going and what you are doing. What gear will you need? What will …

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  • LNTNZ & the Kathmandu 2021 Coast to Coast.

    February 15, 2021 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    This past Friday and into the weekend, saw LNT board members come together at Klondyke Corner in Arthurs Pass, to support the Kathmandu Coast to Coast 2021 event. As a Service Race Partner, we provided expertise and support to ensure an event that brought thousands of people together, left little existing trace on the

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  • BIG Adventures, with little feet

    October 11, 2020 Comments (1) Blog Posts

    During pregnancy, one thing we knew for certain was that we were having an ‘adventure baby’, whether he liked it or not. As parents, we were not intimidated by the idea of taking a baby into the hills, only pondering at what age, and what kind of adventures were appropriate? Turns out a good place …

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  • Confessions of a First Time Cathole Digger

    August 31, 2020 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    This is a great blog from a contributor at the Centre for Outdoor Ethics. Many people find their first experiences of peeing or pooing in the outdoors to be confusing and difficult, when in fact with a few tips and preparation before leaving home, it’s really no problem at all.

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  • COVID, isolation, well-being and nature

    March 19, 2020 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    There are a large number of us now going into self-isolation.  That means less hanging out with large numbers of friends and less social time going out. Self-isolation could prove to be well, quite isolating.  So how do we look after our well-being? Fortunately nature is pretty generous with its powerful

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  • Leave No Trace and the Kathmandu Coast to Coast multi-sport race

    February 7, 2020 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    Leave No Trace has a strong presence at the Kathmandu Coast to Coast race as part of the partnership. LNT has been working to give key messages about disposing of waste properly, respecting Kea and planning ahead and preparing to avoid introducing pests and diseases into new areas. Richard Wesley and Chris North set

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  • Mountain Biking and LNT

    October 25, 2019 Comments (0) Blog Posts

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  • How do you know if you are too close to a wild animal?

    September 10, 2019 Comments (0) Blog Posts

    At Leave No Trace we put a lot of work into helping people understand that animals need their space. Humans take up so much of the world that when we go into areas where wildlife is at home, we need to make sure we do it on their terms. That means giving them space. Maybe …

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  • Moa Bones, An Example of Leave What You Find

    September 1, 2019 Comments (1) Blog Posts

    An article on the news this morning drew attention to the selling of moa bones on sites such as TradeMe. I thought it was an excellent truly New Zealand example of the leave no trace principle of “Leave what you find”. “As soon as there’s a trade, there’s an incentive to start illegally

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THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES

  1. PLAN AHEAD AND PREPARE
  2. TRAVEL AND CAMP ON DURABLE SURFACES
  3. DISPOSE OF WASTE PROPERLY
  4. LEAVE WHAT YOU FIND
  5. MINIMISE THE EFFECTS OF FIRE
  6. RESPECT WILDLIFE AND FARM ANIMALS
  7. BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS

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