YEPT 25th Anniversary Conference

What’s ahead for community-based conservation in New Zealand?

Fifth Circular (July 2013)

Conservation Inc, 17 – 18 October 2013, with pre-conference workshops on 16 October.

Three months to go before Conservation Inc launches. Have you registered yet? Remember, early bird registrations close on 15 August.

Conservation Inc aims to make you and your organisation stronger and better prepared for the future. Conservation needs us all to be well organised within ourselves and amongst ourselves. We hope you’ll see real benefits in attending. And we certainly want to hear from you.

In this circular, we’ll tell you about our speakers and remind you about key dates and conference events.

Registration

Registrations are open now. You can register online at the Trust’s website: http://yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/conservationinc/register-online

If you register before 15 August, you’ll receive an early-bird discount on conference fees and be assured of participating in pre-conference workshops. We expect the workshops to be very popular.

Registration now will also ensure that we can provide poster space for you, or room to tell others about your work with displays and information.

Pre-conference workshops

Three workshops of direct relevance to community conservation work will precede the conference on the afternoon of 16 October:

Governance as leadership (convened by Margy-Jean Malcolm of Unitec NZ)

Sustainable fundraising – what really works? (Heather Newell of Foresee Communications)

Integrated Pest Management (hosted by Orokonui Ecosanctuary)

You can find more details about these hands-on workshops at http://yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/conservationinc/april-2013-third-circular

Who’s speaking, and about what?

We have an impressive line-up of conference speakers chosen for the insights they can offer to what works in community-led conservation and how to make it work. Here is an outline of the keynote speakers for both days.

The conference will be launched by the Minister of Conservation, Hon. Nick Smith, who will stay to respond to questions you may wish to ask.

The Department of Conservation hosts the first session. You will have ample opportunity to ask the questions we all want answers to.

Key players - Kevin O’Connor and Lou Sanson, Deputy Directors-General of Conservation Services and Partnerships respectively – will explain DOC’s new arrangements for doing conservation alongside community groups. Paula Wilson will discuss the future of the Biodiversity Fund which she manages. And DOC’s new Commercial Business Director will speak about DOC’s efforts to stimulate corporate support for conservation causes.

Business leaders will discuss how the private sector regards conservation causes and sponsorship relationships with groups. Martin Snedden, head of New Zealand’s Tourism Industry Association, proposes to tell us about tourism’s perspective on what we do and how tourism might fit as a player in the new conservation landscape. Dom Quin, from Fonterra Brands NZ Ltd, wants to tell us how the corporate sector values sponsorships. Gareth Morgan is hopeful he will avoid arrest at the North Korean border to give us the benefit of his energetic views as a business leader, philanthropist and conservation commentator.

To complement these presentations, we have an array of fantastic speakers, all chosen to expand on conference themes of connectedness, staying viable, what’s feasible and meeting conservation need?

To see who these speakers are, and for the full draft programme, check out the Conservation Inc page on our website http://yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/conservationinc

Full (draft) programme coming soon….

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