Precious Cargo

The DOC / Air NZ Partnership

2

Transport Customers

3

Tiritiri Matangi Island / Takahe

4

Management Needs

Translocations per year

average 25 / 30

Involve a range of species: kiwi,

blue duck, seabird species,

giant weta

Stress, temperature,

smoothness

DOC and Communities

Ongoing Access to sites

5

The Transport

chain

Loading Campbell Island Teal at

Pukaha / Mount Bruce

[Destination: Campbell Island,

700km south of Invercargill]

Road to Palmerston North

Fly to Invercargill

Road to Bluff – with stop for crop

feed

6

Then….

By yacht to Campbell island aboard

the Tiama

72 hours

Skipper: Captain John

7

And

A two hour walk to the release site (no roads)

8

DOC and Air New Zealand A natural partnership with a forward thinking company that sees the real

value of conservation

9

Endangered species transfers

10

Biodiversity projects

“The Routeburn project is the single largest new conservation

project we have been able to implement in the Wakatipu region

since DOC was formed.”

(Greg Lind, DOC Area Manager, Wakatipu)

11

Marine monitoring support

12

Promotional support

13

14

A diversity of transport

customers

The value of transport

partnerships

Broad and creative thinking

when looking at transport

investment

And do Tuatara get a

biscuit?