Our Aims For The Future
Our Conservation Goals:
Our overall goal is to protect and restore the native forest ecosystem of Tararu Valley. This overall goal will be achieved by:
- Placing areas of land in Tararu Valley into permanent legal and physical protection
- Once debt levels have been reduced sufficiently to unlock financier control, further areas of the Valley will be placed into protective land covenants, ensuring they remain dominated by mature native vegetation
Eliminating
(or controlling to low levels) all pest animals & weeds - Reforesting the majority of the landscape of Tararu Valley, especially riparian margins (stream-sides) and erosion-threatened areas
- Rebuilding healthy population of indigenous animal species, including fish, reptiles, birds and insects
- Creating ponds to enhance the all important resource - water - increasing the habitats available to those species (most) that benefit from readily available static water
- The creation of pest-proof fences would exclude pests 100% enabling the reintroduction of locally extinct and highly vulnerable species like Kiwi & geckos
- The Sanctuary intends to continue re-establishing plants which provide food for birds, mainly native but also useful exotic trees like wattles and tree lucernes
Our Goals for Sustainable Living:
Overall Goal: We aspire to implement a model of "sustainable living" aiming to lighten our community's "ecological footprint".
This overall goal will be achieved by:
- Achieving permacultural organic food production sufficient to meet the needs of the Sanctuary community year-round
Renewable energy production
- Creating beautiful, comfortable, durable, and energy-efficient human habitat
Our Managment Goals:
Our overal goal is to manage the Tararu Valley operation to optimise the success of our vision for the long-term. This overall goal will be achieved by:
- Undertaking and encouraging projects which promote biodiversity, indigenous New Zealand flora and fauna, restore ecological balance and avoid use of chemicals in land management.
- Promoting and educating in areas of practical ecological management within New Zealand and sustainable living.
- Educating landowners, land-users, land-managers and the general public in such systems and methods.
- Seeking government, corporate or private funding with media assistance if necessary to undertake these objectives.
Working
in co-operation not competition with any organization or body trying to
achieve the same objectives without compromising those objectives the Trust
has. - Ensuring the ownership of the land and all operation assets is vested in the community
- Ensuring high levels of participant satisfaction and enjoyment
- Becoming financially secure through generation of own income streams
- Safeguarding the wellbeing of all participants
- Seeking to make signage and clarify visitor policies
- Ensuring longterm security of Tararu Valley Sanctuary through legal & financial compliance, and responsible management
- Creating opportunities for environmental education and examples of "earth wise" living
Providing
travellers with an alternative way of experiencing NZ, which makes a koha
to our land and community - Seeking to create a fund capable of providing scholarships to financially needy people wishing to participate in the Valley education programme
- Creating a centre for education which is accessible to the greater community as a model and learning resource
- Seeking to create public walking tracks with interpretive ecological signage to distinctive landmarks such as giant trees and Mt Tararu
- Seeking to develop more sleepouts - cabins, that enable people to 'live-in' nature and experience fully the rare joy of being immersed in a healthy eco-system.
