UWEN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Ordinator of Living Whenuapai
- Marketing & Communications
Annette is co-ordinator of Living Whenuapai which has been leading restoration projects in the Whenuapai area for 5 years. To date the clearing and re-planting projects have been at Waimarie Beach Reserve, Malcolm Hahn Memorial Reserve and more recently Riverlea Reserve. The Living Whenuapai Team also co-ordinates predator control, co-ordinating back yard predator pulsing and trap lines in the wider Whenuapai landscape. Annette is passionate about conservation in New Zealand, in particular the Northwest Wildlink in Auckland and Predator Free 2050 for New Zealand.
Jan has been caring for the Herald Island environment since 1993. In 1995 she was an inaugural member of ‘Keep Herald Island Beautiful' which changed its name to ‘Herald Island Environmental Group' in 2016. Her passion for the environment developed after she married John and moved from Western Australia to his Herald Island waterfront home; awakening in her a desire to identify, care for and restore the native vegetation along the foreshore. This led to the formation of a Herald Island community nursery, where local native plants are grown from locally sourced genetic material. Jan leads the environmental group's work of ‘Bringing Back the Birds', which is occurring as the island's unique natural environment is restored; through reserve and household predator and environmental weed control, bird counts, locally sourced native plantings and waterways regeneration.
Nicola is the Eco-facilitator for the Greenhithe Community Trust and enjoys empowering and supporting the residents to care for Greenhithe's environment, whether it be in their backyards, or in our treasured reserves.
While studying Props and Set Construction Rhiannon discovered her values merging into tangible unison; creativity, social impact and environmental sustainability. She has since continued to cultivate these values by working in the NGO sector in youth engagement, mental health, environmental operations and sustainability in film. At the core of her cross-disciplinary work she emphasizes collaboration, strength based relationships and listening.