Adventurer Danielle raises funds Last summer, Wellington Zoo keeper, Danni Rae took leave from her job to walk the Te Araroa Trail and along the way raised sponsorship for four conservation groups, of which Puketi Forest Trust was one. Te Araroa is an internationally popular great walk that traverses the length of New Zealand, 3,000 km from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Thousands of people walk
Founding Trustee Ian Wilson Retires Founding Trustee Ian Wilson retired from the Puketi Forest Trust Board at our AGM in November 2021 after more than eighteen years of sterling service. Ian’s interest in the forest goes back much further than the early days of the Trust. Ian and his wife June moved to a dairy farm on Puketi Road in the early 1980s. According to
Jobs for Nature In 2021 Puketi Forest Trust was the proud recipient of a Jobs for Nature grant from DOC. The programme has two very clear aims, firstly to increase the pest control work that we can carry out in the forest and secondly, to provide jobs, training and experience for local people to move into conservation work in the long term. Jobs for Nature
A special day for the team The Jobs for Nature team at Puketi Forest Trust were hugely privileged to have been welcomed to the rohe of Ngati Toro in a powhiri at Piki-Te-Aroha marae. The marae is nestled in the foothills of the forest at Rahiri very close to where we have set up our pest control base. The pest control kaimahi had been waiting
