The Project Janszoon model was different. A combination of long-term philanthropic investment, strong partnerships, and business rigour enabled the project to do the “heavy lifting” to achieve lasting ecological transformation in the Abel Tasman National Park. In this document we outline some of the lessons learnt during the 14 years of Aotearoa / New Zealand’s first privately funded landscape scale restoration project.
Pete’s Tweet – Pukeko
It is thought that pukeko first arrived in Aotearoa during the Pliocene (3-5 million years ago). Finding a land with abundant food and no mammalian