Bay Harbour: July 17, 2019

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Fundraiser nets almost $2000
• By Jess Gibson
NINE-YEAR-OLD Olive
Harris of Lyttelton will go to great
lengths to help those in need.
The year 5 St Mark’s School
pupil came up with the idea to
walk up to 10km to fundraise for
children in Uganda who do the
same on an empty stomach every
day.
Walk With a Purpose saw
more than 70 of Olive’s fellow
pupils and their parents get
behind the school’s first official
fundraiser last month.
Almost $2000 which was
raised in cash and through a
Givealittle page will be donated
to the Fountain of Peace
Children’s Foundation NZ.
The money will go towards
keeping 501 children fed at
Rwenjaza Hillside School in
Uganda.
Olive said she was “really
proud” that so many of her
friends were willing to get on
board.
Families woke up as early
as 5.30am to walk from
locations like Mt Pleasant,
Halswell and Cashmere into
• By Jess Gibson
A $95,000 funding boost aims
to help biodiversity flourish on
Banks Peninsula.
The money has been allocated
to five biodiversity projects by
the Banks Peninsula water zone
committee.
BIG WALK: Tim, Olive and
Jake Harris with teacher
Emily Wells who joined the
Lyttelton family for part of
a 10km walk which raised
funds for children in Uganda.
Opawa in time for school.
It was Olive’s second year
walking the Stan Helms track
over the Port Hills with her dad,
Tim Harris, and this year she
was joined by her five-year-old
brother, Jake Harris, who is in
year 1.
Last year, Olive and her father
did the walk on their own and
raised more than $500 through
sponsorship which was donated
The committee approved
the grants as part of Environment
Canterbury’s immediate
steps programme.
The projects include Mabel
Hope Covenant, Okuti QE
II Covenant, Crown Island
Covenant, Bill Hill Little Akaloa
and the Kahukunu Stream
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to WaterAid projects.
Fountain of Peace volunteer
co-ordinator Tania Sharr is
the mother of two pupils at St
Mark’s and helped organise the
fundraiser with Olive and her
mum Lottie Harris.
Mrs Sharr said she was blown
away by the school’s response.
“I get quite tearful thinking
about it. It really makes you
realise that the world is a big
community. Even though the
students in Uganda are a long
way away it means a lot to them,”
she said.
Fountain of Peace was
established in New Zealand in
2012.
It aims to create familybased
homes for orphaned
and abandoned children
in rural Uganda, as well as
working to provide clean water,
education, health care and
sustainable projects for the whole
community.
•If you wish to donate to
Walk With a Purpose visit
https://givealittle.co.nz/
cause/saint-marks-walkwith-purpose
SUPPORT: One group of pupils from St Mark’s School woke up early and walked up to 10km to
school from areas such as Lyttelton, Mt Pleasant and Cashmere.
Restoration. Each of the
projects will receive between
$6000 and $30,000 from the
programme.
Landowners or project partners
will contribute a further 50 per
cent of the funding – boosting
the overall worth of the projects
to about $200,000.
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SLEEPY: A crabeater seal takes a well-deserved nap at
Birdlings Flat.
Rare crabeater seal
stops at Birdlings Flat
A SEAL rarely seen in New
Zealand popped in for a rest
at Birdlings Flat less than a
week after making its home on
Dunedin shores.
Crabeater seals are usually
found on pack ice around the
Antarctic and seldom make the
trip to New Zealand shores, with
only eight sightings documented
across the country between 1885
and 2015.
But a lone traveller has
been spotted snoozing at
Birdlings Flat after another
sighting on a beach near
Dunedin on July 2.
There have been three
sightings this year, including the
recent one in Dunedin, which
may be the same seal who rested
at Birdlings Flat before heading
back out to sea.
One was found dead inland
from Lake Ellesmere in May this
year.
University of Otago student
ECan biodiversity officer Helen
Greenep said the chosen projects
are set to make a real difference
to Banks Peninsula’s natural
environment.
“Protection is the priority,
followed by restoration,” she
said.
“What gives these projects legs
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and LeopardSeals.org research
assistant Giverny Forbes said
she believed the seal near
Dunedin was almost fully grown
and appeared to be in good
condition.
However, it had some scars on
its back, and a few scratches and
puncture wounds, which could
be signs of a recent encounter
with a leopard seal at sea.
Crabeaters form an important
part of the diet of leopard seals
and the pups are frequently
eaten.
Ms Forbes said its name was a
misnomer and the seals do not
eat crabs.
‘’They’re called crabeater
seals but they’re actually very
specialised in hunting krill, they
can sieve krill through their
teeth.’’
It is critical people do not
disturb the seals and maintain a
safe distance away from them of
at least 20m.
Peninsula’s environmental projects get $90,000 helping hand
is that they are all partnership
projects – so our funding from
immediate steps is just a part
of the overall investment.”
The water zone committee
is made up of community
members, runanga
representatives and councillors
from the city council and ECan.
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