Pomona Island Charitable Trust
Our Patron and Trustees
Patron
Our patron is world-renowned botanist Emeritus Professor Alan Mark.
There are four Trustees:
Chair - John Whitehead
A retired local farmer, John has been actively involved in conservation in Fiordland for over 40 years. John is a very hands-on Chair, attending trap checking working bees regularly and being a dab hand at track clearance. John is a DOC-approved kiwi handler.
Treasurer - Neil Robertson
A nature guide for Trips and Tramps, Neil's speciality is birds. He helped catch and transfer robins and mohua to Pomona.
Trustee - Liz Scott
Well-known local GP and long-time volunteer on Pomona and Rona.
Trustee - Harry Bull
Harry is a skipper for Real Journeys and keeps visitors across Lake Manapouri informed about the restoration activities of the Trust. He represents Oraka Aparima Runaka on the Trust.
Patron
Our patron is world-renowned botanist Emeritus Professor Alan Mark.
"As Patron of the Pomona Island Charitable Restoration Trust, I have been most impressed by the resolve and commitment of the Trustees to achieve their laudable purpose in an orderly and credible way. Patrons don't normally become actively involved with the organisation they are asked to support with their patronage but I was delighted to be asked and then to organise and be involved with an important baseline ecological survey of Pomona and Rona Islands. The results of our survey will be important later, in assessing the effectiveness of the carefully planned ecological restoration exercise for these two largest islands in Lake Manapouri, generally recognised as New Zealand's most beautiful lake. As many people in the area will appreciate, this lake is very dear to my heart after risking my scientific career in spearheading a highly contentious conservation battle through the 1960s and early 70s to "save" the lake and adjoining Lake Te Anau from the ambitions of some leading politicians, developers and engineers of the time to despoil them with lake raising in order to gain some extra hydro-electric generation from this resource. Thankfully, we retained the lakes and lakeshores in their natural state and now I am proud to provide my support to the Trust as it restores Manapouri's two largest islands to their natural states."
TrusteesThere are four Trustees:
Chair - John Whitehead
A retired local farmer, John has been actively involved in conservation in Fiordland for over 40 years. John is a very hands-on Chair, attending trap checking working bees regularly and being a dab hand at track clearance. John is a DOC-approved kiwi handler.
Treasurer - Neil Robertson
A nature guide for Trips and Tramps, Neil's speciality is birds. He helped catch and transfer robins and mohua to Pomona.
Trustee - Liz Scott
Well-known local GP and long-time volunteer on Pomona and Rona.
Trustee - Harry Bull
Harry is a skipper for Real Journeys and keeps visitors across Lake Manapouri informed about the restoration activities of the Trust. He represents Oraka Aparima Runaka on the Trust.
Our Patron and Trustees
Patron
Our patron is world-renowned botanist Emeritus Professor Alan Mark.
There are four Trustees:
Chair - John Whitehead
A retired local farmer, John has been actively involved in conservation in Fiordland for over 40 years. John is a very hands-on Chair, attending trap checking working bees regularly and being a dab hand at track clearance. John is a DOC-approved kiwi handler.
Treasurer - Neil Robertson
A nature guide for Trips and Tramps, Neil's speciality is birds. He helped catch and transfer robins and mohua to Pomona.
Trustee - Liz Scott
Well-known local GP and long-time volunteer on Pomona and Rona.
Trustee - Harry Bull
Harry is a skipper for Real Journeys and keeps visitors across Lake Manapouri informed about the restoration activities of the Trust. He represents Oraka Aparima Runaka on the Trust.
Patron
Our patron is world-renowned botanist Emeritus Professor Alan Mark.
"As Patron of the Pomona Island Charitable Restoration Trust, I have been most impressed by the resolve and commitment of the Trustees to achieve their laudable purpose in an orderly and credible way. Patrons don't normally become actively involved with the organisation they are asked to support with their patronage but I was delighted to be asked and then to organise and be involved with an important baseline ecological survey of Pomona and Rona Islands. The results of our survey will be important later, in assessing the effectiveness of the carefully planned ecological restoration exercise for these two largest islands in Lake Manapouri, generally recognised as New Zealand's most beautiful lake. As many people in the area will appreciate, this lake is very dear to my heart after risking my scientific career in spearheading a highly contentious conservation battle through the 1960s and early 70s to "save" the lake and adjoining Lake Te Anau from the ambitions of some leading politicians, developers and engineers of the time to despoil them with lake raising in order to gain some extra hydro-electric generation from this resource. Thankfully, we retained the lakes and lakeshores in their natural state and now I am proud to provide my support to the Trust as it restores Manapouri's two largest islands to their natural states."
TrusteesThere are four Trustees:
Chair - John Whitehead
A retired local farmer, John has been actively involved in conservation in Fiordland for over 40 years. John is a very hands-on Chair, attending trap checking working bees regularly and being a dab hand at track clearance. John is a DOC-approved kiwi handler.
Treasurer - Neil Robertson
A nature guide for Trips and Tramps, Neil's speciality is birds. He helped catch and transfer robins and mohua to Pomona.
Trustee - Liz Scott
Well-known local GP and long-time volunteer on Pomona and Rona.
Trustee - Harry Bull
Harry is a skipper for Real Journeys and keeps visitors across Lake Manapouri informed about the restoration activities of the Trust. He represents Oraka Aparima Runaka on the Trust.
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