The Covid Relief fund Jobs4Nature provides SBN with the funds for several organisations to employ people in their “Partnering2Plant” programme. With this funding, we have been able to provide jobs for 9 different since October 2020 over 3 fte’s.

To protect our kauri we received funding for boot cleaning stations and education: signage and educator time.

In October 2020 we were able to pay our first project manager, supported by the DOC Community Fund, part time for one year. This enabled us to do even more work with even more volunteers!

The irrigation system at the nursery is now running on solar power, and we’re now the proud owners of two FoxPros to monitor our wetland birds by playback – thanks to two grants from the Mazda Foundation.

We’ve run three very successful campaigns with Million Metres (part of SBN) to raise funds for our plants to revegetate the Matuku Link wetland.

This grant will help us improve protection in the wetland with more traps and see how we are doing with more monitoring.

Every year our local board grants us funding for parts of our project: potting mix for the nursery, some materials for our education centre, traps or educational materials.

Just after buying the property, the opportunity came up to fundraise to restore our old, well ventilated barn into a wetland education centre: every vote gave us $5 towards our aim, which in total raised an amazing $85,000!

This charity made the initial acquisition of the land possible with an incredible $450,000 donation.

This DOC fund donated $300,000 towards buying the land in 2016

The local branch of the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society gave a donation towards buying the land and a number of long term Forest & Bird members are trustees and volunteers.

WRPS has contributed from their own funds towards the acquisition of the land to by Matuku Link.

Ducks Unlimited is an American nonprofit organization 501 dedicated to the conservation of wetlands and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, other wildlife, and people. 

Contributing staff time and expertise, from monitoring to drone surveys as well as funding towards predator control, Auckland Zoo is a valuable partner in our project.

When we were just setting up our nursery, WWF helped us to pay for the tank to supply our irrigation system.

Our barn got a large upgrade with a new roof and a sustainable, high quality wastewater treatment system through generous funding from TTCF.