INTERNATIONAL REVIEW 2018/19 Less plastic from Annual Review 2018/19 source to sea Around the world, the family is It has been another year of dramatic, anxiety-inducing headlines. No helping to halt the flow of plastic into the sooner had the implications of the latest IPCC* report sunk in – that oceans and clean up what is already there. we could reach 1.5°C warming in as soon as 12 years – than shocking It is estimated that over eight million tonnes pictures of fires in the Amazon assailed us. of plastic find their way into the sea every year. Eight of our National Organizations took part in A Rocha’s 2018 Global Plastic Cleanup, many doing this in partnership In such a context it is easy to despair, but to families in the majority world by with others. Several of our National conservation is all about hope. And as I A Rocha teams, you can be sure that your Organizations also made a contribution by look back over the A Rocha headlines of gift does environmental good rather than cleaning rivers, preventing at least some the past year I see the impact of faithful harm. And the person it was ‘bought for’ plastics from reaching the sea. perseverance. Look out for the receives a beautiful card. For the perfect Sustainable Development Goal symbols gift go to shop.arocha.org - We developed the Microplastics Toolbox by each article which indicate how that look for the gift symbol by for individuals, families, churches and project makes a difference. articles with available gifts. other groups. It includes plastic-reducing lifestyle tips, a microplastic sampling is year’s review includes stories of Enjoy reading and thank you for protocol and photoguide, factsheets, bible lasting change – change that is bringing your support, study and prayer resources, and links to back seabird colonies in , informative videos. It is free to download creating a forest nature reserve in from arocha.org/microplastics-toolbox. and helping young people connect with Nurdle hunting is one of the most frequently nature. ese are changes that bring a used activities. A Rocha teams in , new vision of how we should be living Kenya and the USA used the Toolbox to on this good earth. Chris Naylor Executive Director, monitor microplastic pollution on local beaches and we have used it to give African Of course this ‘new vision’ isn’t so A Rocha International (ARI) schoolteachers and conservation educators new – in the Bible we are called to the knowledge they need to be earthkeepers not destroyers. You reduce plastic pollution. can read how that message resounds through A Rocha projects and continues Aline Nussbaumer sampling for Our work in this area is to go global thanks to regional creation microplastics at la Plage d’Argan, likely to grow as we seek Marine life care conferences. (David Nussbaumer) conservation ways to reduce plastic use fund and stop plastics entering our One great way to practice earthkeeping waterways, and work with others while giving to those you love is through to conserve important marine habitats and ‘Gifts with a Difference’. By choosing species. We want to love God and our products that benefit both biodiversity neighbour and care for the 71% of this and local communities, and are delivered planet that is ocean by reducing plastic Aline Nussbaumer sampling for microplastics at la Plage d’Argan, France (David Nussbaumer) pollution from source to sea, transforming * e United Nations Intergovernmental Panel an ocean of plastic into an ocean of hope. on Climate Change 2 (Mel Ong) 3 Helping Protect the habitat of Asian wildlife Elephants and Syrian

refugees Eastern Hedgehog (Rudo Jureček) Plan A Rocha ’s work in Mekse Park are grown organically and provide is evolving. e objectives haven’t income for the refugee-farmers and, Bee changed but they are being worked out with the young trees, food and shelter in a new way – Syrian refugees have for birds. Numbers of Graceful Prinia created ‘farms’ which nestle between Prinia gracilis, Masked Shrike Lanius for the trees that the project has planted. nubicus and Crested Lark Galerida e farms are good for people and cristata have all increased. And an wildlife. ey stop grass from Eastern Hedgehog Erinaceus concolor, Bannerghatta overpowering the young trees and a species threatened by habitat loss, provide green manure which is good for hunting and the inevitable traffic, has Asian Elephants (Shutterstock) the soil. Chickpeas, melons, cucumbers been seen among the Wonderful though Asian Elephants and peas have all been harvested. ese chickpeas! Elephas maximus are, our interests can local communities to build confidence often conflict with theirs. e elephants in the beehive fence – which would also of Bannerghatta National Park in provide income from honey sales as Nature based ’s Eastern Ghats frequently enter well as pollination services. A market livelihood for a subsistence farms, damaging valuable for the honey has already been secured Syrian refugee crops and sometimes causing human and five Bannerghatta farmers have fatalities. As a result, local people been trained in beekeeping. We await persecute elephants. It’s a problem their feedback, but hope to involve that A Rocha India has been trying to more people and to use these five solve for some years. farmers as community advocates. Given sufficient community interest, a trial In 2011 chili-tobacco ropes were beehive fence will be constructed. Let’s introduced as an aromatic barrier – the hope that Bannerghatta’s elephants are smell was an effective deterrent but the bee-phobic too. method seems to be just too labour intensive. Enter the beehive fence, which has worked in Africa and is being tested in parts of India. Kenyan elephants don’t like bees so their presence can be an effective deterrent. ere is some resistance to change around Bannerghatta, so A Rocha India has placed beehives in 4 5 Syrian refugees farming between the trees (Martin Bernhard) Conservation Science interns and A Rocha Changes at Les Courmettes Canada Conservation Director, Christy Juteau, sampling the water e Domaine des Courmettes is the quality of the Little e main buildings at Les site of A Rocha France’s head office Courmettes (Ellen Teurlings) Campbell River (Brooke McAllister) and field study centre. It is set in a 600 hectare estate – a nature reserve within a Natura 2000 site in the Alpes- Maritimes, with views of the Côte d’Azur and the Mercantour Massif. It is a private property that is open to the Quercus ilex, covers about two-thirds of public and managed by A Rocha France, the estate. A Rocha France is exploring who provide residential and non- ways to manage this sustainably with residential opportunities that introduce the Centre Régional de la Propriété Inspiring many people to the natural world and Forestière and using Natura 2000 a greener lifestyle. Every year about 50 funding to conserve ancient trees (bois volunteers assist the staff team and to sénescents) on the site. ey are also interns help fund the work they host seminars, exploring ideas for restoring seasonal weddings and other celebrations and marshland elsewhere on the estate with A Rocha Canada’s internship scheme hosts up to 35 people a rent out holiday accommodation. other partners. year and not just from North America and Europe – it has welcomed interns from New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Local shepherds help with site e centre’s education work Singapore, South Africa and Chile. Interns sign up and pay for a termly management – their sheep and goats has seen considerable programme focused on conservation science, environmental education, contribute to management, growth and they sustainable agriculture, or food and hospitality. with Patous - the Great Pyrenees guard aim to increase the dogs - mingling with number of schools ey live, learn and work in a beautiful delicious food in two acres of sustainable the sheep to provide that visit. Regular heritage property in Surrey, British garden for use in the A Rocha centre protection from events for the Columbia. e scientists among them and distribution via the local food bank. 685 the wolves that public focus on could be helping with fish, amphibian or e food and hospitality interns use Number of A Rocha have returned to beekeeping, nature bird conservation, surveying vulnerable the home-grown food to provide environmental Woodcock Orchid the Mercantour. discovery, cheese Ophyrys scolopax species, monitoring water quality or farm-fresh meals in the centre. ey (Esther Brouwer) education activities Forest, mostly and bread making, working in the plant nursery. Meanwhile, preserve some of it too so that it can be worldwide of Holm Oak stargazing and more. the educators might be working with enjoyed throughout the year. young people from pre-school to 16-year-olds, low-income families or And all of this is done in community, senior citizens. ese interns learn as an expression of faith that seeks a interactive ways to inform and enthuse flourishing of people and place. Having their students about salmon life-cycles, been influenced by A Rocha Canada, the native species, gardening, and more. e interns move on to influence the world agriculturalists help grow healthy, they live in.

Above: A Northwestern Salamander Ambystoma e view to the Mediterranean gracile (Falling from Les Courmettes (Chris Walley) Frogs) 6 7 Mickleton Methodist Church Wildflower garden, Chipping Eco Church Campden (Mark Boulton) is making an impact A Rocha UK’s Eco Church programme has grown rapidly since it began in 2016 – a grand total of 1485 churches of various denominations have registered for the scheme in that very short time. Eco Church helps churches to celebrate their care for God’s A male Olive-backed Sunbird earth and work out their next creation care steps. To date, a total Cinnyris jugularis, a widespread bird in the Philippines (Lydia Robledo) of 407 Eco Church awards have been earned, including 98 silver and four gold. e scheme also operates at regional levels. Eco Diocese – for the e Philippines Anglican church – now has 18 registrations and five have achieved a bronze award. In the St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese 80% – a new Associated Project Carbon of clergy housing now has solar panels – the other 20% were A dream has come true in the Philippines, mitigation unsuitable. An impressive four out of 12 United Reformed Church an island nation with a remarkable synods have registered as Eco Synods, and Eco Circuit and District number of endemic species. Based in that works have been launched for the Methodist Church. Quezon City (Metro Manila), Christians in Conservation (CIC) have been teaching 2018 saw the launch of Climate people to care for the people and places Stewards’ Seal of Approval (SoA) – a around them since 2013. And they have guarantee that an endorsed project Atewa update now joined our global family as A Rocha really does make a difference. e campaign to save Atewa Forest in But in spite of these efforts and some hope International’s latest Associated Project. from bauxite mining has entered that perhaps the Government was listening It builds on 10 years of work with a new phase. Having published a report to our arguments rather than just pursuing e CIC vision is to train people in bio-sand water filters by A Rocha (aroc.me/biodiversity-Atewa) on the economic interests, they continue to press critical biodiversity in the forest and run a ahead in their belief that mining Atewa earthkeeping, teach zero-waste , where Climate Stewards’ management, and to establish a native very successful exhibition at the British must be the best idea for the forest and all baseline surveys and monitoring Council in Accra we were delighted that the who depend on it. Government bulldozers plant nursery and seedling bank as an demonstrated the carbon-cutting alternative, sustainable livelihood that World Evangelical Alliance and the Christian have now cleared roads through the forest benefits of these life-enhancing Council of Ghana joined their voices to ours, to allow a geological exploration of the benefits people and the planet. As is devices. So far, two SoAs have been A Rocha’s practice, the starting point calling for Atewa to be set aside from mining. bauxite deposits, despite having failed to awarded, with the other going to undertake any assessment of social or is conservation projects with the local cook-stoves installed by the NGO environmental impacts for either this community and churches, alongside Rural Integrated Development Service activity or for that of the planned mining. practical teaching on what the Bible has (RIDS) in Nepal. Several other projects to say about caring for creation. With a await endorsement. We continue to pursue every avenue we broad spectrum of expertise – including can to build public support to protect church leadership and biology, and an e SoA will help our National Atewa and dissuade any companies and office at the Asian eological Seminary Organizations, churches and other investors who might be tempted to (Quezon City), CIC is poised for the community-based groups verify the participate in Atewa’s destruction. We challenge. carbon offset potential of projects in need your help in this so the developing world and access please make sure you have funding to cut carbon and deliver signed our petition and biodiversity, health and financial spread the word: benefits. And our method is cheaper aroc.me/atewa Help save the than other schemes – so more of the Freshly cleared road in Atewa Forest (Ransford Agyei) White-naped Mangabey income goes to local people.

8 9 Dakatcha reserve Discovering Dakatcha’s triples in size biodiversity Work is ongoing to gain a more complete understanding of e Kirosa Scott Reserve is which species occur in the a sanctuary of protection in nature reserve. We have deployed camera the Dakatcha woodlands. e traps to monitor the mammals, including reserve is named for lifelong the Golden-rumped Sengi. We have also bird conservationist, Bob Scott, been testing acoustic recording devices as whose memorial appeal still benefits endangered species a tool for monitoring Sokoke Scops Owls. in the rich habitats saved from e recorders enable simultaneous the axe (Colin Jackson) monitoring in multiple locations. is diminutive owl can utter its 1000Hz call Golden-rumped Sengi 95 times a minute which the recorder (Galen Rathbun) can detect up to 120 metres away. Our Sokoke Pipit (Nick Athanas) Sokoke Scops Owls (G Katana) monitoring work is helping to create a ‘biodiversity atlas’ and many records are being uploaded to the Virtual Museum for Africa. We are also publishing species lists and other data in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility database.

e Dakatcha forest is home to no less Rhynchocyon chrysopygus. But it is than 10 red-listed species, including four threatened by illegal logging, charcoal Engaging that IUCN classify as Endangered – the burning and clear-felling for pineapple 211,858 Sokoke Scops Owl Otus ireneae, Clarke’s plantations. A Rocha Kenya is working with people Number of hectares of Weaver Ploceus golandi, the Sokoke with local people and buying land to Land purchase alone is unlikely land where we advise, Pipit Anthus sokokensis and secure a better future for Dakatcha, its to secure a long-term future have management the Golden-rumped Sengi people and its wildlife. for Dakatcha’s wildlife. Local control or responsibility people need to be empowered Sasoni farmers, Dakatcha globally to connect and care. To facilitate (Sarah Young) Purchase land With funding from the A. G. Leventis and this A Rocha Kenya is working to protect A. P. Leventis Foundations and members with local communities to train endangered owls of the public, A Rocha Kenya has been able them to ‘Farm God’s Way’ which to increase its Dakatcha landholding from allows the soil fertility to increase over time through zero tillage, 90 hectares to 287 hectares. is is good mulching and crop rotation. is approach is being used across 2,040,002 Africa with some remarkable results. In Dakatcha, 12 farmer groups Number of hectares progress but more needs to be done – the have been mobilized to take part in the training. goal is a reserve that covers 800 hectares of other land or more, which would protect the core of e team also works with churches and schools to help them benefitting from the Sokoke Scops Owl’s distribution in understand the biblical basis for caring for creation. 11 schools our research and Dakatcha, and of course, benefit the area’s are participating in A Rocha Kenya’s environmental education conservation Dakatcha woodland is rapidly disappearing due to programme and 11 churches have agreed to engage with the creation activities globally illegal logging and clearance for agriculture (Colin Jackson) other threatened species. care training programme. Above: Sosoni farmers, Dakatcha (Sarah Young) 10 11 Portugal partnership reveals hidden wildfire Synthymia fixa, a common species at the study site (with impact thanks to Ana Valadares) A Rocha Portugal has been working in a Moths are important pollinators – before Delegates at the scientific collaboration with Universidade the wildfires they carried the pollen of Lausanne/World de Évora in Portugal and the University over 80% of the flowering plant species in Evangelical Alliance Creation Care of York, Newcastle University, the Centre the study area. But afterwards fewer moth Southern Africa for Ecology and Hydrology and Butterfly species were found and they were much Conference (LWCCN/ A Rocha South Africa) Conservation in the UK. eir research, less abundant in the burnt area than in published in the journal Functional unburnt areas nearby. e total amount Ecology, explored the impact of large of pollen transported by moths was five Pollinating the global church wildfires in Portugal on flowers, moths times lower at burnt sites. A Rocha is unique – it is the world’s only global Christian creation care organization. and their interactions. ey demonstrated, For Rev Dr Dave Bookless, A Rocha International’s Director of eology, this means for the first time, the detrimental effect of To quote co-lead author Paula Banza, of a growing number of opportunities to influence, and difficult choices to make – wildfires on moths and their pollination A Rocha Portugal and the Universidade knowing which invitations to accept and weighing the carbon costs against the services, and that wildfires increase local de Évora: potential benefits of transformed attitudes and practices. extinction risks for both the pollinator and the pollinated. ‘…we showed that plant-insect Dave is one of two Global Catalysts for given biblical resources and practical communities at burnt sites were Creation Care for the Lausanne Movement. ideas, which has led to the emergence It was already known that a flush of less able to resist the effects of 2018 saw him playing a key role at the 9th of national movements and radical pollen-producing wildflowers after a fire and 10th regional conferences on Creation attitude change. Dave also spoke in the any further disturbances without can be good news for those pollinators that Care and the Gospel (organized by A Rocha Philippines at the triennial work the day shift – bees and butterflies suffering species extinctions’ and Care of Creation under the banner of Micah Global for example. But for nocturnal moths, it’s the Lausanne /World Evangelical Alliance Consultation on 28,841 a different story. Creation Care Movement). e first, in ‘Resilience, Justice Number of South Africa, attracted 90 participants and Creation Care’ participants in from 13 African countries. e second, – to 450 delegates A Rocha theological in Oceania, also had 90 delegates, this from 70 nations. education time from eight Pacific nations. Both As a consequence, worldwide conferences benefitted Micah Global now 337 from the planning include creation care in Number of skills of local their definition of ‘integral mission’. A Rocha speaking A Rocha engagements at organizations Towards the end of 2018 Dave addressed churches and – South Africa, 500 theological educators from across conferences Australia and New the globe as a plenary speaker at the worldwide Zealand. International Council for Evangelical eological Education in Panama.

Part of the study site, after fire, To date over 1000 leaders Imagine the impact of tens of thousands in the Serra do Caldeirão region from more than 100 countries have been of pastors being trained in creation care! near Faro (Paula Banza) 12 To find out more about the Lausanne/World Evangelical Alliance Creation Care 13 Movement see news.lwccn.com. Oi or Grey-faced Young people Petrel (JJ Harrison) Restoring mistbelt forest

help the Oi in KwaZulu-Natal 207 Number of species e Grey-faced Petrel A Rocha South Africa is back in action on the IUCN Red Pterodroma gouldi, or the Oi, on the Ferncliffe Reserve, close to List helped by our Pietermaritzburg. ey are clearing breeds only around New Zealand’s work globally invasive vegetation from the 2.5 North Island. ey have returned to hectare reserve and planting native the Whāingaroa coastline, where species in an area that had been 15-18-year-old students from the Raglan Area commercial forestry after much of School act as their Kaitiaki, or guardians. e its original tree cover was cleared to students are part of the Manaaki Ao (Earthcare) provide timber for programme, created with the school by A Rocha Pietermaritzburg’s New Zealand and Papa Taiao (a sustainability Victorian buildings. and ecological restoration training Old pathways are Manaaki Ao programme organization), which introduces them to local in their outdoor classroom being restored too, environmental issues and possible solutions. (Marty Taylor) allowing better access for visitors, and for species Oi parents take it in turns to feed their single chick, surveys and carbon bringing in food perhaps once a week or even once sequestration a fortnight. It’s a lifestyle that results in the chick Ferncliffe Forest measurement. (Murray Tessendorf) being left alone in its burrow, sometimes for weeks at a time, where it is vulnerable to predation by Ferncliffe Reserve Crowned Eagle rats, cats, stoats and other introduced mammals. is mistbelt forest, (Derek Keats) To give the Oi a helping hand the Kaitiaki have a southern extension monitored its predators, cut tracks to gain access, of tropical Africa’s montane forests and set traps to capture the unwelcome visitors. As which, as the name suggests, is well as the practical work, the students have also frequently shrouded in summer Southern had teamwork, project planning and fundraising mist. Less than 0.5% of South Africa Ground-Hornbill (Bernard Dupont) experience – it’s a great personal development is natural forest with mistbelt forest opportunity and makes a difference for nature. accounting for about a third of this. species and biome-restricted and Ferncliffe is part of 35,000 hectares of range-restricted species. It is very rich With the help of local young eastern mistbelt, spread among 108 in endemic invertebrates, particularly people, the Oi is being restored separate forests, many of which have earthworms, snails, beetles, spiders to New Zealand’s coastline, been degraded by firewood collection. and millipedes, many of which are still 148 being described. Hopefully, the Ferncliffe Number of species bringing nutrient-rich marine guano to the soil, e eastern mistbelt is home to Reserve will play a part in securing a we help that are the Southern Ground-Hornbill better future for some of these species. aerating the earth by threatened or at Bucorvus leadbeateri, Crowned Eagle excavating burrows, and risk nationally Stephanoaetus coronatus and Bush delighting those that care, Blackcap Lioptilus nigricapillus, all of simply by being an Oi. which are globally threatened, as well Oi or Grey-faced Petrel chick (James Russell) as a number of regionally threatened 14 15 Water filters help Bringing hope to dry forest in Peru Work has begun on a four-year sessions on apiculture and ‘algarrobina’ forests and people project that aims to restore dry forest production (a syrup made from Prosopis ecosystems along Peru’s northern trees) have taken place. A Rocha Uganda has promoted coastline, where some of the last bio-sand water filters for over a remnants of this special habitat Local people are demonstrating a decade. Water is filtered as it passes are found. With less than 5% of the genuine interest in sustainably managing through a biofilm and layers of sand and original dry forest remaining, it is an the dry forest on which they depend – gravel. is natural filter is contained international conservation priority. it’s good for them, good for the forest in a lidded concrete container and is and good for the threatened species that highly effective at removing pathogens Launched in January 2018, A Rocha live there – the Peruvian Plantcutter and suspended solids from polluted Peru’s project focuses on dry forest Phytotoma raimondii (a bird endemic to water. e 2,086 filters that have been in Pacasmayo in the department of Peru) and the Peruvian Desert Fox distributed to families and schools have La Libertad, where the effects of poor Lycalopex sechurae for example. benefitted over 10,000 people. land management, urban sprawl and Clean water brings noticeable health climate change have been particularly benefits to the people of Kampala. But detrimental. e active engagement of that is not the whole story. When local people who depend on the forest clean water is more readily available for food, water and shade, and other children drink more resulting in local stakeholders is vital and has taken better performance at school. Using a variety of forms. Degraded landscapes a bio-sand water filter is quick and targeted for restoration have been simple compared to boiling water over identified, conservation agreements a fire. is frees up time and reduces ‘…I am a widow and I and letters of commitment have been smoke inhalation, improving livelihoods signed, hundreds of students have taken couldn’t afford to buy Bio-sand part in education sessions, and capacity and reducing poverty. ere is also less water filter need to collect firewood or burn charcoal charcoal or firewood. building workshops and community so forested areas and their biodiversity Sometimes there wasn’t Peruvian Desert Fox (David Cook) are less degraded. Fewer fires means enough drinking water because less greenhouse gases are produced. the trees and shrubs took time Trees in the desert e bio-sand water filter is inexpensive to dry… At times children drank and made using locally available materials. water directly from the source and It is just one part of A Rocha Uganda’s stomach aches were common. work helping local communities build Since we received the water climate change resilient societies. filter, we no longer cut down many trees for cooking, we no longer experience water related sicknesses and our health has improved’. Ssempijja Sarah, Masooli.

Photo above: Ssempijja Sarah drawing water from her bio-sand water filter (A Rocha Uganda) Planting Huarango tree 16 seedlings at Santonte, 17 Peru (Flor Hidalgo) Expenditure, income and fundraising

In 2018 the A Rocha family’s global giving priority to the greatest need, and A ROCHA INTERNATIONAL’S INCOME income remained constant at £5.3m. support the development of new A Rocha Honey made by the hard working bees Beehive We thank the churches, trusts, organizations. Churches 9% of St. Luke’s Church Crosby (John Turner) foundations and many individuals that Individuals 60% have supported us – which has enabled Our projects help us meet at least 15 of the our long term scientific research, 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Trusts 17% environmental education, theological Goals – with your continued support we Investment 2% teaching and community based could do even more. Other 12% conservation programmes across the globe to continue. You have helped us e chart opposite shows ARI’s income restore habitats and protect species, sources and highlights the importance of reduce poverty, improve community individual donors. St Luke’s Church in Crosby, UK keeps health, empower women, and equip bees in their churchyard. By selling some refugees with environmental skills that rough our 2018 Christmas appeal you A ROCHA INTERNATIONAL’S EXPENDITURE of the honey, they have raised £1000 they can take back to their own countries. enabled us to provide environmental to purchase beehives and plant trees in Supporting A Rocha education workshops for 40 Ugandan Kenya through Gifts with a Difference. Although the family’s global income teachers who between them teach nearly Organizations 56% remained constant, some A Rocha 3,000 pupils, and to share environmental Fundraising 11% ‘Keeping bees seemed a natural extension of organization saw a significant rise in education best practice among a number Communications 13% our work of caring for “God’s acre”,’ says Steve income such as A Rocha Ghana, Kenya, of our A Rocha organizations. Matthews, Coordinator of the Grounds Project. Governance 4% ‘We have planted a series of gardens with a Lebanon, Portugal and Uganda, and Administration 6% Climate Stewards, but A Rocha Peru, Over 78% of our expenditure relates to variety of flowers attractive to insects. When South Africa and UK, and A Rocha staff employment costs. Two-thirds of Advocacy and an expert beekeeper joined us, we developed International (ARI), saw a reduction in ARI’s expenditure was spent supporting representing hives in the vicarage garden too. So far we have income. With additional funding ARI A Rocha organizations, in advocacy, and A Rocha 10% produced 80 lbs of honey this year and 65 lbs would be able to increase its support in representing A Rocha at a global level last year, which we sell at our eco-stall, together to other A Rocha organizations, at scientific and theological conferences. with jams made from our home-grown fruit. e A Rocha beehives and tree planting projects are Instead of wedding gifts, Lydia and an ideal way to invest our profits to support bees e pie chart shows the USA 3.4% Climate Stewards 1.5% Alasdair Grubb, asked their friends and communities in Kenya.’ undesignated income for and family to give to A Rocha A Rocha International (ARI) International. and the total income for the National Organizations. ‘We thought this would be a really effective way of UK raising money and giving to a charity we think is Uganda 3.9% 8.2% ARI 18.2% important,’ says Lydia. ‘A Rocha is an organization Australia 0.1% 2.7% that combines two things we both care very much 0.5% South Africa 0.2% about – our faith and the environment. I am an Peru 0.8% ecologist, Alasdair is the warden of a nature reserve Portugal 1.9% and we are both Christians, so naturally we are 0.7% 1.4% very interested in the work of A Rocha. I was first introduced to A Rocha as a teenager, as many of my New Zealand 3.2% Canada 24.0% family and friends are supporters, and then worked Lebanon 0.7% with A Rocha France before I went to university. I Kenya had the most brilliant time helping with interesting 4.9% and crucial research into the status of European India 0.3% Rollers and other key species in the area.’ Ghana Lydia and Al on their wedding day (Emilie May Photography) Protoreaster linckii (Bobby Sluka) 15.8% France 6.2% 18 Czech 1.2% 19 Inspiring young people

This meant time out of the classroom to help with predator control work, removing cats, rats and stoats for the good of the Oi. It was part of a pilot education programme which enabled its student participants to earn credits for a National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) through hands-on practical conservation and, hopefully, to acquire leadership skills, grow in confidence, and be better equipped for the workplace.

Dayton Keremeta checking a predator The programme started in 2017 trap (Janine Jackson) and Dayton was one of the first students Dayton Keremeta is one of the young to sign up. Initially it was a shock for people who has been involved with the Dayton to see the numbers of non-native Manaaki Ao programme (see page 14), predators and the damage they caused. which is part of the Karioi Project in But working outdoors was a pleasure New Zealand. While he was a student at and he found a certain satisfaction in the Raglan Area School he was one of the controlling their numbers – ‘being Kaitiaki, a guardian of the Grey-faced able to work outdoors and getting rid Petrel Pterodroma gouldi, or Oi. of the pests is a good feeling’ he said.

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