News Winter 2008

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KAURI 2000 NEWS

Welcome to the latest news fromt Kauri 2000. This section of our website is continually being updated so remember to check it regularly. The Kauri 2000 newsletter is issued twice a year.

PLANTING 2008

This year's planting season has been a stop-start affair - the weather has definitely not been on our side, with heavy rain nearly every weekend. However, in spite of this 2600 kauri were planted. A huge THANKS to our dedicated volunteers who have been on 'standby' and come out to plant. We could not have done it without you!

Hill Young Cooper Planting Day

Adrienne Young Cooper, a long time sponsor of Kauri 2000 from the consultancy firm Hill Young Cooper had a ' team building' planting day at the Chelmsford site near Tairua on 12 May. A group of seven came all the way from Auckland to plant kauri.

Adrienne Young Cooper, Karen Baverstock, Karen Bell , Penny Harrison, Rachel Pinson,

Ian Mayhew and Emily Toh.

KAURI 2000 WELCOMES NEW CORPORATE SPONSORS TO THE TEAM

Richardsons Real Estate are doing their part to help reforest kauri on the Coromandel. As a thank you, each client of Richardsons receives a Kauri 2000 gift certificate and a kauri is planted on their behalf. They also joined in with this year's planting.

Out of home advertising company Adshel Australia sponsors Rainforest Rescue, a group that is re-foresting the Daintree with natives. Adshel New Zealand wanted to do something similar here in New Zealand and contacted Kauri 2000. They will be celebrating their 10th year in 2009 and thought what a great partnership we could make.

The Bank of New Zealand has teamed up with Kauri 2000. It is commemorating every Kauri Bond issue the BNZ arrangesby planting 100 kauri seedlings. The "BNZ Karui Forest" is expected to grow at 1000 seedlings per annum!

The BNZ had their first planting day on 11 July at the Matarangi No. 51 planting site at the west end of Kuaotunu. Staff from BNZ Corporate Auckland as well as staff from the Whitianga branch had a great day planting kauri seedlings. Founder, Cliff Heraud and our Patron, Dame Cath Tizard, joined the group to see the beginnings of the "BNZ Kauri Forest". (See the news article below).

BANKING ON NATIVE TREES

Kauri 2000 supporters Alison Henry and Barbara Ritchie were astounded to get a call from international banker Patrick Mullins a few months ago.
Mr Mullins wanted to explore the idea of a partnership between Kauri 2000 and the BNZ, involving its international bond clients.

When the organisation’s chairperson and organiser got over their surprise, negotiations advanced quickly and last Friday the deal was launched at an inaugural planting at Kuaotunu

The deal gives some of the world’s biggest financial institutions a personal stake in a new kauri forest on a Department of Conservation block on the hills above Grays Beach.

The BNZ Kauri Forest will be part of an ambitious kauri park already started by Kauri 2000.

The bank will plant and maintain 100 trees for every kauri bond it arranges for international bond issuer and expects to plant 1000 seedlings a year.
Bond issuers will receive a certificate showing the GPS location of their trees. Companies involved in the first planting include the European Investment Bank, Nordic Investment Bank, Export Development Canada and the International Finance Corporation in Washington.

The sponsorship of about $20,000 a year is the biggest sole donation to Kauri 2000 which has been recreating significant stands of kauri on publicly-owned land on the Coromandel Peninsula since 1989. The trust has so far planted about 27,000 trees.

Patron Dame Cath Tizard says the BNZ sponsorship is a tremendous affirmation of the project. Ms Henry says it’s a long way from the corporate desks of the finance markets of Europe and North America to the Coromandel.

Founder Cliff Heraud, who initiated the trust as a way of marking the millennium, agrees. “I have to admit to feeling a bit overwhelmed when I see Kauri 2000 being promoted across the world.”

The trust is stronger than ever but smaller contributors have been essential to the project and still are, he says.

Department of Conservation area manager John Gaukrodger says the deal is especially appropriate in this age of sustainability. “This new partnership goes a long way to making sure Kauri 2000 not only survives, but thrives.”

Mr Mullins, who is head of capital markets, says the initiative came about because the bank wanted to find a way of giving international clients a unique, tangible link with New Zealand.

It’s not part of the bank’s strategy for becoming carbon neutral by 2010 but will contribute to it in the long term.

The international clients are highly delighted with their connection to the new forest, he says.

BNZ staff from Auckland and Whitianga joined Kauri 2000 members for the inaugural planting on Friday.

(Reproduced from The Coromandel Peninsula Post 17 July 2008)

Tairua School Planting Day

On 1 July, 21 pupils from Tairua school planted 75 kauri seedlings alongside the track from Te Karo Bay to Otara Bay with the Kauri 2000 Trust. This is thefourth year the students and their parents have planted kauri in the area and they have now planted 325 seedlings. There is the potential for 1000 seedlings in all, which will be a wonderful forest. In 2007 & 2008 some of the seedlings were given by Robert Yaansen. These were grown from seed collected on his Tairua Heights property.
Tairua is an Enviroschool and as part of this initiative they involve themselves in local programmes. They observed Arbor Day by planting pohutukawa with TCDC on a Tairua reserve. Earlier in the year they did a beach clean up during Sea Week, then Tairua benefited from a student led Rubbish Hunt.
Cherry Ladd, Kauri 2000 trustee said, “I am proud to be involved with a school that has so much initiative and care for the environment.”
The school recently hosted staff from other schools who are considering developing their own Enviroschool programme.

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