EcoZip Flying Fox Adventures

29/09/2026

🥇 We’re Gold. Again.

We’re delighted to say that EcoZip has retained our Qualmark Gold Sustainable Tourism Business accreditation.

And Gold isn’t just a nice badge for the website.

Qualmark describes Gold businesses as the “best-in-class sustainable tourism businesses in New Zealand”, delivering exceptional customer experiences and leading the way in creating a world-class visitor destination.

For our guests, that means you can book EcoZip knowing you’re choosing an independently assessed New Zealand tourism experience with high standards across customer experience, sustainability, safety, people and the way we look after the places we call home. Qualmark itself says its accreditation gives travellers confidence when choosing New Zealand experiences.

We’re also rather proud that our Waiheke experience currently carries a 4.9/5 rating, and Kaikoura has a 5/5 rating, from thousands of Tripadvisor reviews, putting us among New Zealand’s most highly rated tourism experiences.

Of course, none of this happens because somebody sticks a Gold logo on the door.

It happens because of the brilliant people in our Waiheke and Kaikōura teams who look after our guests, our safety, our forests, our wildlife and each other every single day.

So this Gold belongs to them. 💚

Come and see what all the fuss is about.

26/09/2026

Join us for an unforgettable evening on our next star flight!💫

A magical night spent zip lining under Kaikoura’s incredible night sky. A feeling you need to experience once in your life.

Saturday 10th October at 7pm - we can’t wait to see you there!

Book through the link in our bio ✨

17/08/2026

Last week, 254 eco-sourced native plants left the nursery and headed out to volunteers who planted them in the ground 🌱

These plants were donated to the Pohowera Park project. A beautiful new restoration project in the old pine plantation area along the coast of SH1, here in Kaikōura.

For the past few years, countless members of our Kaikōura EcoZip whānau have got their hands dirty collecting eco-sourced seeds, propagating, potting, weeding, watering, shifting, repotting, rebuilding and caring for thousands of tiny seedlings. Starting in 2023 with a couple of hundred seedlings tucked away behind HQ to more than 4,000+ plants now growing under our care in 2026, it has been a massive team effort.

This sums up what we intended EcoZip to be when we started it. We’re much more than adventure tourism. Kaitiakitanga, caring for and protecting our natural environment, is at the heart of what we do. Our nursery is one of the ways we can turn that value into action, growing eco-sourced native plants for restoration, conservation and community projects across Kaikōura.

254 plants in the ground and this is just the beginning!!! 🌿🌱🥹

13/08/2026

🏆 A little bit of exciting news from EcoZip…

We’ve been nominated in the Australia & New Zealand Adventure Tourism Awards and, rather wonderfully, there’s an Eco-tourism vote.

So this is us shamelessly asking for your help. 😄

If you’ve zipped with us on Waiheke or in Kaikōura, loved the views, survived one of our terrible guide jokes, wandered through our native forest, or simply like what we’re trying to do, we’d be hugely grateful if you’d cast a vote for EcoZip Adventures.

It takes just a moment, costs absolutely nothing, and would mean an enormous amount to our team.

👉 Vote for EcoZip here: https://adventuretourismawards.us.launchpad6.com/2026/entry/190

And if you feel inclined to share this post too, we certainly won’t complain.

Thank you from all of us at EcoZip. 💚🌿

EcoZip Adventures delivers unforgettable zipline and eco-adventures in two of New Zealand’s most spectacular locations: Waiheke Island and Kaikōura. But we’re about much more than flying through the trees. Conservation has been part of EcoZip’s DNA since day one. Our tourism activ...

10/07/2026

**Good news from Kaikōura!** 💚

After what can only be described as a proper soaking (and then some!), our team has finally been able to get back on site to see how EcoZip came through last week's wild weather.

The verdict? We've been incredibly lucky.

There's plenty of mud, gravel where it shouldn't be, and one rather impolite river that decided our access road was optional... but the damage is thankfully much less severe than we'd feared.

Armed with shovels, wheelbarrows and a healthy supply of Kiwi ingenuity, we'll be spending the next few days clearing tracks, tidying up and getting everything back into tip-top shape. We expect to be welcoming guests again in around three days

Most importantly, everyone is safe.

A huge thank you goes to Kaikōura's firefighters, volunteer first responders, Civil Defence teams, council staff, marae volunteers and so many locals who dropped everything to help. Watching a community pull together like that reminds us why we're so proud to call Kaikōura home.

And thank you to everyone who has checked in, sent messages and wished us well over the past week. Your support has meant a great deal to the whole team.

We can't wait to get back out there, clipping people onto ziplines instead of picking up shovels. See you very soon!

21/06/2026

Who’s joining us for our next star flight? 💫

A magical evening spent zip lining under Kaikoura’s incredible night sky. A feeling you need to experience once in your life.

Saturday 11th July at 4:30pm - we can’t wait to see you there!

Book through the link in our bio ✨

20/06/2026

**BREAKING NEWS**

In collaboration with our mates at BATCH WINERY and Fullers360, we're giving away up to $5,000 in ferry travel, on-island transfers, and w**e tastings as part of your end of year celebration!

WIN Your Ferry & On-Island Travel for Your End-of-Year Work Function!

Looking for an unforgettable way to celebrate your team this year?

Confirm a group booking for an EcoZip Adventures experience and lunch at Batch W**ery, with your event date falling between 12 October and 24 December 2026, and you'll go in the draw to WIN a premium Waiheke Island experience valued at over $5,000!

Prize includes:
• Complimentary Fullers360 return ferry travel for up to 50 guests
• Complimentary on-island bus transfers
• Complimentary Batch W**ery w**e tour and tasting

How to enter:
1. Book an EcoZip Adventures experience, including the scenic forest walk to Batch W**er including our special lunch package at Batch W**ery
2. Confirm your booking and pay your deposit by Friday, 2 October 2026

Swap out the ordinary and treat your team to a day of adventure, stunning island scenery, award-winning w**e, exceptional food, and first-class travel!

The perfect end-of-year celebration starts with a ferry ride to Waiheke Island.

Book now:
📧 bookings@batchw**ery.com
📧 [email protected]

Prize drawn on 9/10/26

01/06/2026

At EcoZip, we've always believed that tourism should leave places better than we found them.

That's why we're delighted to announce our sponsorship of the Kororā Monitoring and Research Project at Pōhatu/Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula, through our friends at Moana Mark

The project supports more than 30 years of research and conservation work focused on Canterbury's endemic white-flippered kororā (little penguin). From monitoring breeding success and survival rates to habitat restoration, predator control and GPS tracking studies, the programme is helping researchers better understand and protect one of New Zealand's most treasured seabirds.

For many of us, memories of New Zealand involve time spent on, in or around the ocean. Protecting the species that call our coastline home is something we're proud to support.

This sponsorship is another small step in EcoZip's ongoing commitment to commercial conservation; using tourism as a force for good and helping fund projects that create meaningful environmental outcomes.

A huge thank you to the team at Pōhatu and to Moana Mark for making it possible for businesses like ours to directly support important conservation science.

Because great adventures should leave a legacy.



A strong accompanying image would be a kororā emerging from the water at dusk, or one of the researchers working with tagged penguins in the colony.

05/05/2026

When the journey up to your zipline adventure is just as good as the zipping itself! ✨✨

The views just get better and better the entire way up.

Who’s coming this winter? It may be chilly but winter in really is the most beautiful time to be here ❄️

18/04/2026

Who’s got this experience on their New Zealand bucket lists? 🤔