The Halo Project objectives

 

The Halo Project supports resilient communities by engaging in healthy landscape development within the 55,000 hectares surrounding the Orokonui Ecosanctuary. Community health and wellbeing, lifestyle and economy are all dependent on a healthy natural environment, and it is this underlying principle that drives The Halo Project’s objectives to enhance our natural environment.  

The objectives of The Halo Project are to:

  • CONNECT PEOPLE TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

    Connect people with nature and wise land use, encouraging stewardship and awareness of the natural environment that sustains us.

  • ENHANCE ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

    Manage the health of natural ecosystems, retaining and enhancing their capacity to sustain our communities.

  • PROTECT NATIVE PLANTS AND ANIMALS

    Protect and restore our indigenous biodiversity, cherishing the distinctive character of this area.

  • SUSTAIN LIVELIHOODS

    Support existing local economies and create livelihoods through community initiatives.

 

 

Currently, the Halo Project is focused on activities in the areas of predator control, forest and seabird habitat restoration and freshwater enhancement from source to sea. Click on a project circle below to read more about them:

 

Predator COntrol

Forest Habitat Restoration

From Source
to Sea

Seabird Habitat Restoration


Halo Project Team:

Top (left to right): Kim (Dedicated volunteer),Thomas Powell (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger), Sophie Bond (Predator Free Project Coordinator), Damian Mallison (Source To Sea Field Team Lead), Jeanne Hutchison (Source To Sea Volunteer Coordinator), Rosa Pettinger (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger), Jonah Kitto-Verhoef (Predator Free Project Manager), Conor Houghton (Predator Free Project Coordinator), Jennifer Lawn (Source to Sea Project Manager), Alice Macklow (Communications Lead & Administrator)

Below (left to right): Harvey Aughton (Predator Free Project Coordinator), Kim Miller (Predator Free Project Coordinator), Mike O’Neill (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger), Hugh Lindsay (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger), Andrew Vikhert (Source To Sea Field Team Ranger).

Absent: Rhys Millar (Project Director)