It is named after the book Ngā Uruora: The Groves of Life - Ecology & History in a New Zealand Landscape by ecologist Geoff Park.
[2] Ngā Uruora has an agreement with the QE II National Trust to undertake planting, weed and pest control on the escarpment.
The dominant native vegetation is Coprosma propinqua, Ozothamnus leptophyllus and Olearia solandri, with scattered kanuka-karaka-kohekohe forest remnants.
[5] Ngā Uruora volunteer Peter Kentish of Paraparaumu won a Kāpiti Coast Civic Award in 2017 for his work.
[10] At the beginning of 2017 Ngā Uruora installed a community webcam at the top of Paekākāriki Hill Road overlooking the Kāpiti Coast.