Our support partners, sponsors, and donors

Donations, bequests, financial support continue to be very important to Brook Waimārama Sanctuary.

We wish to sincerely thank our supporters in 2021-2022

STRATEGIC SUPPORTERS

DOC – Jobs for Nature & Kaimahi for Nature (in conjunction with NCC) Jasmine Social Investments NCC

SPONSORS

Booster Wines Cutting Edge Duncan Cotterill J&E Reuhl Jens Hansen Nelmac and Kūmānu Environment Morrison Square/Oyster Group NBS Nelson Pine Industries Ltd One Forty One Pic’s Peanut Butter Pitt & Moore Platinum Asset Management RWCA Stanley Black & Decker

GRANTS

Creative Communities NCC Environmental Grant Scheme Macpac Frimley Foundation NCC - Tuku22 Lottery Environment & Heritage WIRF (DOC)

BUSINESS CLUB MEMBERS

Absolute Energy ADAMA New Zealand Ltd BECA Ltd Booster Wine Group C & F Legal Limited CB and BR Kidson Family Trust Chapman Employment Relations Continuum Architecture CORA (COR Associates Ltd) Cutting Edge Signs & Graphics Duke & Cooke Ltd Duncan Cotterill Enhanceskin Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village FSL Foods Ltd Harrington Eye Care Insite Nelson Jerram Tocker Barron Kaitiaki Restoration Kimi Ora Eco Resort Laser Plumbing Nelson Little Bird Audiology Absolute Energy Maxted Contracting Ltd McFadden McMeeken Phillips MTF - Nelson NBS Neil Whittaker Medical Ltd Nelmac Ltd New World Nelson City Nelson Coachlines Nelson Consulting Engineers Nicholson Protective Coatings O’D & Co Penrose Property Management Ltd Perpetual Guardian Pitt & Moore Lawyers PL Law Ltd Prego / Comida Cafe & Restaurant Proper Crisps Raine Farms Ltd T/A Oaklands Milk Renaissance Organic Hair Salon Rezource Staig & Smith Ltd Stoke Garden & Landscapes Sunrise Cleaning Services (Nelson) Ltd Surround Landscape Architecture Tasman Auto Wash Tasman Sparkies Ltd Tahuna Beach Holiday Park Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Kuia Trust The Free House Pub The Nelson Market Ltd Thwaites Diesel Nelson Ltd Titoki Nursery Ltd Upshift Limited Viridian Glass Wine Art & Wilderness WSP Opus

And all Volunteers, in-kind supporters and donors (too many to name individually)

TELLING OUR STORIES

We appointed an education support coordinator, Shani Bennett, to start the new school term from October 2021, Shani has created resources for our education delivery, produced in house video and introduced activities for kids of all ages. Shani is also to introduce storytelling into our offerings and help to increase more kids to visit and return to the Sanctuary All school trips to the Sanctuary are met by a tour host. We intend to build the program highlighting the aims of the Sanctuary, conservation, and provide a better understanding of the halo effect. Stories will also be weaved into our guided tours

ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL

Environmental capital includes all aspects of the natural environment needed to support life in the Sanctuary, including soil, water, plants and animals.

Surveys

We carried out Sanctuary- wide surveys (SWS) in September, January, March, and May. We also carried out continuous SWS between 12 October and 7 December. This equals to four additional surveys, making a total of 8.

Biosecurity

Incursions are ongoing; various controls and monitoring disciplines are in place with improvements made all the time.

Ecosystem restoration

The understory which gives valuable protection to our native species, is growing fast and through most of the Sanctaury, thriving. Several features of 2021-22 included increased bird activity and the discovery of lost plants. This gives us cause to celebrate what we have. We also initiated much more effort on pest weed control with both a paid team and a volunteer team working at controlling target species including old mans beard and wilding pines

Pest Detection

The pest Detection Team operates over 3,000 devices in the Sanctuary trapping and detection network in accordance with the Biosecurity Plan and instructions from the Sanctuary Ecologist. Pest detection is managed in four operational areas. Each area has a coordinator:

• Card Preparation and Checking. This team prepares tracking cards and lures, refurbishes cards for reuse and checks returned cards for prints. The work undertaken by this team is appreciated by detectors and significant savings are made by reusing tracking cards.

• Perimeter. The devices on the perimeter lines are permanently active. There are 15 perimeter team and a total of 48 volunteers who conduct fortnightly servicing of these devices inside the sanctuary. A further 6 volunteers service the traps and tracking tunnels outside the fence monthly.