Downtown Rotary meeting - 14 May 2019

Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, Inc.

Weekly meeting – Tuesday 14/05/2019

 

Tanya Hart

Regional Programme Manager

“Trees That Count”

 

Climate change and reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions is a hot topic. Trees That Count is a group making a difference. Encompassing the vision of Sir Stephen Tindall and with catalytic investment funding from The Tindall Foundation, the organisation counts the number of native trees being planted nationally, whilst also encouraging and enabling more plantings through its online marketplace, which allows individuals, businesses, and families to fund or gift native trees. These trees are matched with planters throughout the country. 

 

Trees That Count’s goal is to see 200 million additional natives planted in the next 10 years. Over 23 million have been counted to date. It also wants to create a culture where planting or gifting native trees becomes the Kiwi ‘thing to do’ to celebrate or commemorate occasions. This week, the Prime Minister gifted 10 native trees to celebrate the new royal baby via Trees That Count.

 

Tanya is responsible for extending Trees That Count’s reach, expertise, and support throughout New Zealand via a team of Regional Advisors. She also helps manage relationships with nurseries, planting partners and planting projects, and manages the Trust’s technical team.  Being Auckland-based, Tanya is available to support partners of Project Crimson and Trees That Count, both industry and corporate, across the wider region.

Tanya was 2-i-c at Beef+Lamb New Zealand for 14 years and has over 25 years’ experience in business. In consultancy roles, she has broad experience working with a variety of clients across philanthropic, agricultural, commercial property, conservation, food and beverage, and business innovation sectors. She is a fervent advocate of conservation and care for the environment in conjunction with innovative New Zealand business.

Please note:

Breakfast meeting registrations close at 11 a.m. on the Monday. For a short time after this, it may be possible to request changes via President Lucy.

Failure to register your attendance can cause problems for Northern Club catering.

 

Introducer/host: Daniel Turkel

Thanker: Gill Johnston

 

Reception: Chris Winders, John Halstead, Gaye Harford

 

Upcoming meetings:

 

21/05/2019

Jaime Brown

Co-director of Merge NZ

“The mission to normalise NZ sign language”

 

28/05/2019

Club planning day

 

04/06/2019

No meeting (Day after Queen’s Birthday)