THE HALO PROJECT OBJECTIVES

South Island kākā by Craig McKenzie

Mouth of Blueskin Bay by Scott Mouat

Trap maintenance

Kororā/Little Blue Penguin by Craig McKenzie

Unloading traps at Kamau Taurua/Quarantine Island

Pūrākaunui by Scott Mouat

Jewelled Gecko by Craig McKenzie

Room 4 at Port Chalmers School with their Halo Project posters

Asheika wins a Halo Project pest monitoring kit

Kakaruai/South Island Robin by Craig McKenzie

Osbourne meets Purakaunui Inlet by Rhys Millar

Purakaunui trap maintenance

Fernbird by Craig McKenzie

Penguin nest count

Rifleman by Craig McKenzie

Checking traps

Weta by Craig McKenzie

Unloading traps at Kamau Taurua/Quarantine Island

Penguin nest count volunteer

Tūī by Craig McKenzie

OSPRI Trapping Contractors at Heyward Point

Careys Bay mudflats by Andy Thompson

Bird count volunteers

Tītī/Sooty Shearwater by Craig McKenzie

Forest habitat

Leith Stream by Craig McKenzie

GPS locating traps

Kererū by Craig McKenzie

Collecting cockles

Cloud Forest by Craig McKenzie

Drs Point and Māpoutahi by Scott Mouat

Family checking traps

Tara/White fronted Tern by Andy Thompson

The Halo Project supports resilient communities by engaging in healthy landscape development within the 55,000 hectares surrounding the Orokonui Ecosanctuary. Community health and wellbeing, lifestyle and economy are all dependent on a healthy natural environment, and it is this underlying principle that drives The Halo Project’s objectives to enhance our natural environment.

The objectives of the Halo Project are to:

Connect people to the natural environment
Connect people with nature and wise land use, encouraging stewardship and awareness of the natural environment that sustains us.
Enhance ecosystem health
Manage the health of natural ecosystems, retaining and enhancing their capacity to sustain our communities.
Protect native plants and animals
Protect and restore our indigenous biodiversity, cherishing the distinctive character of this area.
Sustain livelihoods
Support existing local economies and create livelihoods through community initiatives.

Currently, the Halo Project is focused on activities in the areas of predator control, forest and seabird habitat restoration and freshwater enhancement from source to sea. Click on a project circle below to read more about them:

PREDATOR FREE

FOREST HABITAT RESTORATION

SOURCE TO SEA

SEABIRD HABITAT RESTORATION

Halo Project Team:

Top (left to right): Damian Mallison (Source To Sea Field Ranger), Jonah Kitto-Verhoef (Predator Free Project Manager), Conor Houghton (Predator Free Project Coordinator), Alice Macklow (Communications Lead & Administrator)

Below (left to right): Kim Miller (Predator Free Operations Field Lead), Harvey Aughton (Predator Free Operations Field Lead), Hugh Lindsay (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger)

Absent: Rhys Millar (Project Director), Katy Rossiter (Predator Free Ranger), Abby Hutchison (Predator Free Ranger)

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