Marc Slade



Marc Slade

Terrestrial Conservation Programme Manager, WWF-New Zealand

 

Marc is responsible for WWF-NZ' s terrestrial and freshwater conservation programme, including administering the Habitat Protection Fund and the Conservation Innovation Fund. WWF is developing a work programme to promote conservation at a landscape scale, working with communities, landowners, councils and businesses to restore "living landscapes" so that they can help our indigenous biodiversity adapt to climate change.

 

Marc sees kererū as an important species in supporting this landscape approach as they are a keystone species for forest regeneration and survival and operate across large areas. 

 

 

 

Monica Awasthy

Monica Awasthy
Kererū Discovery Project Coordinator, WWF-New Zealand

 

Monica joined the Kererū Discovery Project in 2006 as Wellington Zoo’s inaugural Research Fellow and as a Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington. With a team of volunteers, she followed kererū fitted with light-weight radio transmitters and used sightings submitted by the public to learn about their urban habitat use. Her work highlighted the potential role that cities and the people who live in them can play in conservation.

 

When she’s not working with KDP, Monica can be found in the teaching labs at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington where she works as a Technical Officer. 



 

 

Myfanwy Emeny

Myfanwy Emeny
Biodiversity Coordinator, Parks and Gardens, Wellington City Council

Myfanwy manages the biodiversity action plan for Wellington City Council.  This action plan coordinates the Council’s biodiversity activities and identifies local priorities and actions to protect and restore biodiversity.  These biodiversity activities include revegetation planting, pest control, education, and partnerships with other organisations and groups. Myfanwy believes that to achieve our vision, and to be a city renowned for its kaitiakitanga (environmental guardianship), we need to work across the landscape and enable everyone to get involved.

She also has a personal interest in and understanding of the kereru, having studied them for a number of years at Whirinaki Forest in the Bay of Plenty.