~2,500 species threatened
One of the highest extinction rates on earth
Bucket connects everyday Kiwis directly with conservation projects on the ground. This site explains the idea and gives you step-by-step testing instructions before you head to the live platform at bucket.community.
New Zealand has one of the highest extinction rates in the world. The people working to fix that are doing it on a shoestring, self-funded, volunteer-led, and chronically underfunded.
One of the highest extinction rates on earth
Relying on bake sales, working bees, and personal fundraising
Without new funding streams, vital conservation work stops
That's why Bucket exists.
With Bucket, you're in control from the start. You choose where your money goes, you follow the work as it happens, and you see exactly what it achieves.
Step 1FILL
Chuck as little as $5 into your personal Bucket wallet. It sits there, ready and waiting, until you decide where it goes.
GIVE
Have a look through verified conservation projects from all over Aotearoa: predator control, native planting, riparian restoration, and more. Then put your funds behind the ones that matter most to you.
GROW
See exactly what your bit achieved. The groups you're backing report back with the real outcomes: hectares protected, predators removed, native trees in the ground.
Bucket's still in testing, and we're inviting a small group of people to be among the first through the door, setting up accounts, backing real conservation projects, and telling us straight up what works and what doesn't. What you tell us directly shapes what Bucket becomes before we open it up to everyone. Fancy giving it a crack?
Do it in your own time, at your own pace. Most people are done within a couple of hours.
What makes Bucket different.
Give to your own projects, in your own way. A Circle just means you're not doing it alone, whether that's with your family, your workmates, or your mates down the road. You can see what everyone in your circle is backing, cheer on the wins, and make conservation something you share with people, not just something you do for them.
Or give on your own and watch it add up alongside people who care about the same things you do.
Our main circle, open to everyone. Browse and back conservation projects alongside a growing crew of Kiwis who care.
For anyone keen on protecting Te Whanganui-a-Tara and the surrounds: support local projects looking after native birds, coastal ecosystems, and green spaces.
Backing Manawatu conservation? This one's for you.
Every dollar goes to a specific conservation project run by a specific group. Once the work's done, they report back to you directly on exactly what your money achieved.
Choose the project. Back the doers. See the mahi.
Bucket is being built by Neil Cole, Malcolm Rands (co-founder of Ecostore), Sheridan Jamieson, and Rahul Govindan, four Bucketeers who reckon conservation groups deserve better tools and more reliable funding.
Thanks for being here. We're stoked you found us.