National Wetland Trust Anniversary AGM

Montana Book Award Winner to Speak at National Wetland Trust Anniversary AGM

Janet Hunt, author of Wetlands of New Zealand: A bitter-sweet story, will be the guest speaker at the National Wetland Trust’s 10th AGM being held on Wednesday 19 August from 7pm at the Auckland Regional Council, Cnr Pitt and Hopetoun Streets, Auckland CBD.

Wetlands of New Zealand: A bitter-sweet story won the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Environment category, the Montana Medal for Non- Fiction 2009, and was a finalist in the 2009 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Award. Hunt’s previous books include Hone Tuwhare: a biography, A Bird in the Hand: Keeping New Zealand Wildlife Safe; and From Weta to Kauri: a guide to the New Zealand Forest. Hunt, who is both author and designer of Wetlands of New Zealand: A bitter-sweet story, will share tales of her adventures researching and writing it, describing the varied wetlands she met along the way.

Her journey started with a visit to the Manawatu Estuary in October 2006 for the celebration of its listing as New Zealand’s sixth Ramsar site (internationally significant wetland) carrying on to wetlands in Central Otago, the Sutton Salt Lake, upper Paerau Valley scroll plain, Cromwell, Queenstown, Invercargill and the southern estuaries of Awarua, Waituna as well as Sinclair’s Wetland and Taieri Mouth.

The Trust welcomes members’ nominations for Trustees from around New Zealand, and has phone and video- conferencing facilities available for meetings. If you are not already a member, simply go to our website www.wetlandtrust.org.nz to join. Nominations for Trustees for the National Wetland Trust will be received by the Secretary Don.Scarlet@mightyriver.co.nz until the close of business on Tuesday 17 August 2009.

The AGM event is open to members and non-members. Please rsvp to enquiries@wetlandtrust.org.nz
To celebrate our 10th anniversary we will serve wine donated by the world’s first CarboNZero winery, Marlborough’s Grove Mill. There is no cover charge for the event, so please consider a generous donation to the National Wetland Trust on the night.

The National Wetland Trust may organise a bus to the venue from Hamilton on a cost-share basis. All bus bookings must be received by Wednesday 12 August. Please contact enquiries@wetlandtrust.org.nz if you are interested in this or phone Catherine Beard on 0800 800 401.

To find out more about the National Wetland Trust visit: www.wetlandtrust.org.nz

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