The inaugural supreme Far North Go Green Award was presented to Project Island Song before a sell-out gathering of more than 150 at Russell's Duke of Marlborough Hotel on Thursday night.
Project Island Song is a voluntary organisation that is working to restore in habitat, eradicate pests and reintroduce native birds on seven islands of Ipipiri, the eastern Bay of Islands, in collaboration with the Department of Conservation, Guardians of the Bay of Islands Inc. and Te Rawhiti hapū.
It also won the Good Green Idea category.
The other winners were Cliff Colquhoun, from Kaitaia's Community Business and Environment Centre — CBEC (outstanding citizen), Sea Cleaners Far North (outstanding organisation), Hukerenui School (outstanding school), and Claudine Maynard (recycled fashion).
Project Island Song's project manager, Richard Robbins, said he felt very honoured to accept the award on behalf of the organisation's volunteers, staff, project partners and backers, "because it reinforces how we work."