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ANNUAL REPORT 2020 ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONTENTS FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDED 31 MARCH 2020 Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust Trustees and Staff 2 This Annual Report will be presented to the Annual General Meeting of the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust to be held Chairperson’s Report 4 on Wednesday 30 September 2020. 2050 Ecological Vision for Banks Peninsula / Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū (including Port Hills) 8 The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust was established in Goal one – Old forest remnants 9 2001 and is a non- profit organisation, a charitable trust under the Charitable Trusts Act, and is registered with the Charities Goal two – Rare ecosystems 12 Commission. Goal three – Land/freshwater/marine habitats & the species that depend on them 16 Goal four – Core indigenous forest areas Office: Main Akaroa Highway, P O Box 146, Tai Tapu 7645 20 Email: [email protected] Goal five – Productive & settled land also supports indigenous biodiversity 26 Phone: (03) 329 6340 Website: www.bpct.org.nz Goal six – Flora & fauna are increasingly abundant 30 Title page photos from top to bottom: Goal seven – Species reintroductions 32 1. Port Hills view over Lyttelton towards Banks Peninsula 2. Colorful tui in flax plant during the summer 3. View over connecting QEII covenant to sea at Stony Bay Stream Goal eight – Pest Free Banks Peninsula 34 4. French settlement Akaroa, Banks Peninsula Covenants 36 Our Supporters 37 Financial Statements 38 BANKS PENINSULA CONSERVATION TRUST TRUSTEES & STAFF Mark Christensen (Chair) is a natural Pam Richardson farms in partnership David Miller (Deputy Chair) lives in Rebecca Parish is the Property Development resources lawyer, specialising in biodiversity with husband Ian and son Andrew a 710 Decanter Bay, where he has owned his farm Manager at Foodstuffs South Island. issues. He became involved with the Trust hectare Banks Peninsula hill country prop- since 2001, and was one of the earliest With a background in town planning, business, when working on a Ministerial Advisory erty. In 2007 they won a Ballance Farm covenantors with the Trust. David has a resource management, and governance. Committee on the protection of biodiversity Environment Land and Life Award. Pam is background in clinical psychology and Rebecca divides her time between a home on private land. Mark is a trustee of the a founding member of the Banks Peninsula public health. He has worked in these fields in Governors Bay and their 130 acre NZ National Parks and Conservation Conservation Trust and Chairperson of the in many regions for the United Nations and property on a ridge above Okains Bay. Foundation. He is a consultant to the Feral Goat Eradication Working Group. as the Ombudsman for the World Health Rebecca chairs the Wildside Committee World Conservation Union IUCN, Organisation and the Global Fund to Fight (Retired August 2019) and the Manager of the Sustainable Ingrid Kerr is a chartered accountant AIDS, TB, and Malaria, in Geneva. Business Council’s Business, Biodiversity, working as Chief Financial Officer for Philip Helps resides in Port Levy. Married and Ecosystem Services Project. construction firm Armitage Williams. Edward Aitken lives in Pigeon Bay with to Jane, they have jointly farmed their Port She lives on Mt. Pleasant and enjoys wife Penny on a 1100ha sheep and beef Levy property for in excess of 40 years. Amy Carter is CEO of The Christchurch a family holiday home in French Farm. breeding property. This developed farm is Other interest includes active involvement in Foundation. She is also chairperson at pub- now managed by son Angus in conjunction a marine farming partnership. Philip’s family lic relations firm Perception PR & Marketing. Paul Bingham is Executive Chair of Digital with an intensive farm in North Canterbury. has had a continuous association with the Her communications and public relations Marketing Platform Shuttlerock, Farm stay accommodation is available and land as farmers on Banks Peninsula, dating experience includes work with some of Chair and fifty percent shareholder of Banks Edward is a director and shareholder of back to the late 1830s. Philip is an active New Zealand’s iconic charitable organisa- Peninsula’s Black Cat Cruises, a Director marine farming companies in the area. member within the Banks Peninsula branch tions including Surf Life Saving New Zea- of Ngai Tahu Tourism and Trustee of Edward has had many years involvement, of Federated Farmers. land, Swimming New Zealand, and St John. The Christchurch Foundation. He recently with Federated Farmers, in the District Plan Amy lives with her family at Taylor’s Mistake retired from the Air New Zealand board process, out of which evolved the Trust. Jack Gibbs lives within the area of the and has been involved with the Trust since and served as Director at Tourism New Wildside Project beyond Akaroa with his 2 011. Zealand and Chair of Christchurch and Kate Whyte lives with her family in wife Charlotte. Twenty percent of their Canterbury Tourism. Paul’s career has Lyttelton. She has significant experience 240ha property is now dedicated Reserve. spanned marketing roles in a range of managing ecological restoration projects companies, he led Black Cat Cruises for 15 on the Peninsula. Kate has been actively Richard Simpson lives at Fisherman’s years as Managing Director. Paul’s family involved in the Trust’s work since its Bay on the eastern side of Banks Peninsula lived in Diamond Harbour and Akaroa and inception and is committed to ensuring where he and his wife Jill farm 402 has been based in Asia, the UK, and the US it remains a community-led organisation. hectares, running beef cows and dairy before returning to live in New Zealand 20 replacements. They have Banks Peninsula years ago. Conservation Trust covenants totalling 76 hectares and have been involved with the Trust since its inception in 2001. Richard chairs the Trust’s Wildside Committee. (Retired August 2019) Maree Burnett – General Manager Sarah Bisley – Administrator Marie Neal – Covenants Officer Sophie Hartnell – Volunteer Coordinator Alice Webster – Wildside Coordinator 2 3 CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT I am very pleased to present the • How each of the five Rūnanga hold and • And it’s a place where residents and • Leading the planning for the Te Kāka- chairperson’s report for the 2019/20 own intangible taonga and heritage. visitors alike come or stay to see and hu Kahukura project on the southern Port financial year. These provide insights into the Maori world experience a place they’ve heard about – Hills. This initiative also supports Goal 4 view, whakapapa, mātauranga Maori, somewhere where the brand does deliver, of the Ecological Vision and builds on the In 2016, the Trust led the development and tikanga, connections to the landscape, and where ‘pure’ means what it says, and learnings we have gained from the Wildside adoption of the 2050 Ecological Vision kaitiakitanga (guardianship). Information where there’s a community that’s connected, Project. It is another ‘legacy’ project for the for Banks Peninsula/Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū. about traditional knowledge and tikanga resilient and healthy. A place, which people and city of Christchurch. The eight Goals of the Ecological Vision is owned by each Rūnanga and is precious, amongst others, is an example of how You can read about all these initiatives, guide and direct all the Trust’s activities and is for Rūnanga to contribute or release the whole country could be, in time. and others, in this report. and projects, and the allocation of our as they wish. This is about a true partnership resources. with manawhenua who exercise kaitiakitanga In this annual report you can read about the The year ahead and rangatiratanga – and that’s something range of the Trust’s work on each of the eight The year ahead is an exciting one. The Ecological Vision’s Goals are aspira- no other country in the world is able to do Ecological Vision Goals, and our striving Things to watch out for include: tional. But they are achievable if the Trust, as we can. towards contributing to this larger story. Rūnanga, councils, agencies, organisations • Ramping up the work of Pest Free Banks and landowners all work together collabo- • A prosperous primary sector and tourism The year in retrospect Peninsula. We will be employing a Project ratively, and the Ecological Vision is used industry, part of whose message is that its Highlights of the last financial year include: Leader whose task it is to support the col- to guide conservation and environmental meat, its wool, its carpets, its wine, its olives, laborative implementation of this nationally management across the Peninsula. or its cheese is grown on Banks Peninsula – • The continued expansion of our significant project. a place that can tell its story by way of its covenanting programme 76 covenants over While critical to our work, the Ecological own special brand and its connection with 1502 ha, (primarily Goals 1 and 2 of the • Yet more covenants. Expect some major Vision is not an end in itself; it is merely the whenua and wai - and can tell that story Ecological Vision), and especially the ongoing increases in hectarage this year. part of a larger story. That is because authentically to visitors. rollout of the Covenant Engagement and conservation is, in the end, about people. Support Programme. The Trust remains the • As part of the covenanting, we are con- And that larger story includes: • Finding a place where the environment only locally based and landowner driven tinuing to design, and will hopefully be able supports our mental and physical health – organisation in the entire country that has to announce, opportunities for increasing • How we ensure that the ecological and where we can recreate and re-create – a the legal power to covenant private land in support through a mixed carbon offsetting cultural health of Banks Peninsula/Te Pātaka place of inspiration and regeneration for perpetuity.

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