People | Matuku Link

Grac Coyle

by admin | Oct 15, 2025 | People, Staff

Grac is a young queer conservationist who has recently come on board the team at Matuku Link to add their skills in storytelling for conservation. They have been volunteering with us for just over a year now, helping out with the School Holiday Programme, getting...

Christine Mansford

by admin | Oct 15, 2025 | People, Staff

With Christine’s background in ecology, and a skilled conservation field worker by trade, Christine is enjoying being able to practically assist the Matuku projects in growing predator control across the landscape. Christine happened to be between contracts at Ark in...

Trustee John Fawcett

by Leah Nielsen | Oct 16, 2024 | People, Trustees

We weren’t content with just two Johns as trustees, we just had to go and recruit a third one! With a career as a humanitarian worker that took him to the USA, Cambodia, and Nepal, John brings a wealth of experience to our team. Since returning to New Zealand,...

Intern – Maarten

by Leah Nielsen | Sep 12, 2024 | People

Introducing Maarten, who has traveled all the way from the Netherlands to join us at Matuku Link for a five-month internship. As part of his “Landscape and Environmental Management” studies, Maarten is focusing on a key project to explore why matuku...

Lead educator – Leah

by admin | Jan 17, 2024 | People, Staff

Leah joined Matuku Link in 2022, bringing her love of learning and passion for the natural world to our education programme. A former primary school teacher, Leah has worked in schools in both New Zealand and the UK. While living in Bristol, she volunteered at Bristol...

Assistant educator – Rebecca