Support
Back the work. Never buy the result.
Traps, plants, fuel, fencing and time help make ecological work possible. Back the resources it needs; ecological merit depends on the demonstrated result.
The Lower Shotover River, Queenstown. A working landscape with a bridge and planted margins; no recovery result is implied.
Bernard Spragg. NZ · CC0 1.0. Resized; responsive display crop.
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What support enables
Equipment, labour and constructive work on the ground
These DOC photographs show tangible conservation work and logistics. They do not show activity funded by NZ Ex Games, and no funding relationship is implied.
Planting with Whareroa Guardians Community Trust, Conservation Week 2017. Work towards recovery, not a verified outcome or NZ Ex Games-funded activity.
Source: Department of Conservation (NZ) · CC BY 4.0. Resized; full source frame retained.
Carrying traps at Travis Wetland. Documentary equipment and labour; no NZ Ex Games funding or endorsement is implied.
Belle Gwilliam / Source: Department of Conservation (NZ) · CC BY 4.0. Resized; full source frame retained.
Four ways in
Connect resources with the work
Use the contact details to discuss a specific place, purpose or resource need.
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Back the Games
Back ecological work and the platform that connects it: its record, Watch, the Living Map and ecological competition.
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Back the work itself
Resources pointed at a particular person, project, locality or piece of restoration work.
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Partners
Explore how your organisation, institution, business or philanthropic group could support ecological work.
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Challenges and prizes
Discuss backing a defined ecological objective — a wetland, a dune or a stretch of stream. Enquiries do not establish a funded challenge or prize.
Never purchased
Ecological merit
None
Support effect on score
Never bought
Discovery weighting
Free
Basic participation
Support is economic or resource backing. It may affect acknowledgement and reach, but can never purchase merit, Score, Points, Competition Standing, competitive advantage or Field authority.
Free participation
Taking part is not for sale
Travis Wetland, Christchurch. A named-place reference, not evidence of NZ Ex Games participation or ecological recovery.
Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; full source frame retained. Adapted image: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Field activity, Online investigation, Watch and Support connect people with ecological work. Basic participation remains free, including choosing to compete. Financial backing does not determine who deserves ecological recognition.
Discuss practical needs such as documenting a project, organising a team or making useful records accessible. Additional services must never be a condition of basic participation, discovery or fair assessment.
Support enquiries
What would you like to help with?
These are subjects for an enquiry. Payments, subscriptions and funding transactions are unavailable on this site.
Future support options · enquiries only today
Nobody is asked for anything until they already care
- 01WatchSeeing real places, people and work.Nothing. Watching is free and always will be.
- 02FollowKeeping track of a place, a ecological work or a team.Nothing. Following is free.
- 03PlayReading intelligence and making calls on unresolved questions.Nothing. Play is free by design.
- 04ContributeWanting the ground to get something it needs.A resource a ecological work genuinely needs — equipment, capability, a service.
- 05Back a Mission, a team or a placeCommitting to an ongoing purpose rather than a single item.Sustained resource backing, at the scale of a ecological work, a team or a place.
Resources for ecological work
Find a person, place or ecological purpose to support
- A person or a teamSomebody doing the work, or a group holding a patch of ground together.
- A ecological workOne unresolved question, and what it would take to settle it.
- A placeA gully, a stream, a wetland, a headland — the ground itself.
- A problemOne introduced animal or plant, wherever it is being fought.
ecological work economy — resources reaching ecological work
- Stocking a resource goal — A real resource placed where the field can release it.Enquire
- Pooled Cache contribution — A shared resource objective met together.Enquire
- Donated equipment — Their gear used on named ground.Enquire
- Loaned capability — Capability returned, work enabled.Enquire
- Donated services — Skill applied to a ecological work.Enquire
- Backing a team — A team kept in the field over a season.Enquire
- Backing a place — Sustained work on ground they care about.Enquire
- Backing a problem — Effort concentrated on one target.Enquire
- Matched backing — Their contribution multiplying others'.Enquire
- Supply at cost — Volume, reach and standing as a supplier.Enquire
Media economy — attention, story and audience
- Supporting an episode — Field material recorded and published.Enquire
- Series partnership — Association with real work, disclosed.Enquire
- Distribution and licensing — Rights to carry the record.Enquire
- Archive and footage access — Access to recorded field material.Enquire
- Material goods — A physical thing, with a stated margin destination.Enquire
- Events and screenings — A gathering around real work.Enquire
Institutional economy — organisations with obligations
- Council and agency programmes — Participation, coordination and reporting on their own priorities.Enquire
- Corporate ecological programmes — Verified participation by their people, disclosed.Enquire
- Education and schools — Structured ecological learning around live Missions.Enquire
- Research collaboration — Field data collected to an agreed standard.Enquire
- Philanthropic and trust funding — Ecological outcomes at programme scale.Enquire
- Platform services for groups — Tools, records and coordination — not standing.Enquire
- Money cannot buy points, standing or ranking.
- Money cannot buy evidence acceptance or a judging outcome.
- Money cannot buy ecological credit for work somebody else did.
- Contribution is disclosed, never hidden inside a result.
- Watching, following and playing stay free by design.
These options are subjects for a support enquiry, not purchasable offers. Use the contact details to discuss what the work needs; this site does not process payments.
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Taking part
Discuss support through the published contact details. An enquiry is not a payment, funding commitment or partnership agreement.
Where money stops
Back the work. Recognition follows evidence.
Money can buy traps, plants, fuel and time. It cannot buy merit, Score, Points, Competition Standing, competitive advantage, Field authority or a better reading of a river.
Shag Rock, Sumner. Coastal landscape context, not an NZ Ex Games result.
Bernard Spragg. NZ · CC0 1.0. Resized; responsive display crop.
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