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A memorable nature experience Bill had was free diving in a school of about 80 mahimahi (dolphin) in the Caribbean. When one of them was hooked by a line from a boat, he was in the centre of a mandala of energy for 15 minutes as the other fish tried to assist their mate in trouble. The revolving continuum of flashing irridescent blue, yellow, green and silver mesmerised him. After he climbed onto the boat to assist in releasing the fish, it fled, well-chaperoned by her mates. |
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Graeme's first environmental experience was digging up the back lawn in Hamilton in 1965, much to the horror of his mother, to plant native ferns, trees and shrubs salvaged from a Te Aroha quarry site. Unfortunately only one cabbage tree remains today after a later owner subdivided the Hamilton property. |
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Trustees |
An Incorporated Charitable Trust |
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Honorary Trustees
Muriel Fisher,
Edward Goldsmith
Geoff Moon
Board of Trustees
Graeme Woodhouse Chair/President
Craig Cary, Bill Brownell |
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Craig Cary ..........
Craig joined the TerraNature Board in 2004, to support the Trust's marine conservation objectives.
His specialised research is focussed on the extreme ocean environments of cold seeps, and hydrothermal vents on seamounts.
He moved to New Zealand in 2004, to become a Professor at the University of Waikato's Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, in the Department of Biological Sciences, of the School of Science and Technology.
Craig is also Associate Professor and Director at the Center for Marine Genomics, Graduate College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware. |
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His research interests include molecular techniques in microbial community structure analysis with emphasis on interactions among bacterial communities in extreme environments; and comparative physiology, biochemistry and ecology of marine invertebrate/bacterial symbioses with a focus on molecular techniques to resolve biochemical interactions between host and symbiont. Craig obtained his PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego in 1989.
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Bill Brownell ..........
Bill manages the consulting firm Tikapa Kahawai Coastal Marine Advisory Service which he founded in 2003. He has a particular interest in the vital Firth of Thames estuarine ecosystem and Ramsar site, as co-leader of the “Muddy Feet” project focusing on ecological research and sustainable management. He is also co-proprietor of the Tikapa Moana seaside organic orchard and lodge at the base of the Hunua Parklands southeast of Auckland. |
In 1996 he co-founded Ecoquest New Zealand which offers a study abroad program in New Zealand of applied field ecology, resource management and environmental policy, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire. Bill served as Chair of the Trustees and lecturer in fisheries policy, coastal management and marine ecology. He was an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire. |
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In other educational positions he was Dean of the Community College for Conservation and Nature Tourism Studies at Whitianga, New Zealand; head of the fishery research and technology training programme at the La Salle Institute in Margarita Island, Venezuela; and Director of the School for Field Studies Marine Resources Centre in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the British West Indies.
Bill’s long career in marine science and conservation started as a field associate at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He worked as a project manager for fisheries development in Benin and Ghana, and principal fish smoking technologist for West Africa, both for the United Nations Development Programme. He has done applied shellfish aquaculture research and implementation (oysters, scallops, mussels and queen conch) in the Los Roques Islands, Venezuela, the Caribbean islands, Canada and New Zealand, including studies of the environmental impacts of aquaculture projects.
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Graeme Woodhouse ..........
Graeme is president and chairs TerraNature and Terra Nature Fund, managing both organizations in a full-time
capacity. He took primary responsibility for establishing the two entities. Born and raised in Auckland and Hamilton, Graeme became a Registered Surveyor with the Survey Board of New Zealand in 1968. After planning and engineering various land development projects at the Vail ski resort in Colorado, he was the planner from 1975 until 1977 for Beaver Creek, the second resort developed by Vail Associates Inc.
As founding partner of Woodhouse & Garry CHS (1979-92), a town planning and architectural practice in Vail and Denver, Colorado, and San Francisco, his work included urban design plans for six alpine destination resort villages. Graeme prepared a master plan for a new town for 120,000 people covering an area of 16,000 acres for the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners.
In more recent horticulturally oriented work, as president of Fort Mason Community Garden Inc during 1997 and 1998, he was responsible for transforming nursery operations, initiating native plant propagation and planting, organising composting operations, and incorporating windbreak planting and water conservation measures. Graeme received the Highest Achievement Award for Community Organizing in 1999, for his work as a neighborhood coordinator with Friends of the Urban Forest, a nonprofit organisation responsible for planting and maintaining most of San Francisco's street trees. |
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Incorporation
TerraNature Trust is a New Zealand charitable trust incorporated as a Board with the
Registrar of Incorporated Societies under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957.
 See Certificate of Incorporation
TerraNature was established by a Deed on 12 September 2000. An amended deed was
executed on 4 October 2004.
See Deed of Trust
Tax Exemption
The Inland Revenue Department has determined that TerraNature meets the requirements of a charitable organisation, and has granted various revenue exemptions.
Donations may be tax deductible for New Zealand donors under section KC5 of
the Income Tax Act 1994.
Donations may be tax deductible for New Zealand public companies under section DJ4 of the Income Tax Act 1994.
TerraNature is granted exemption of gifts from estate and gift duties under section 73(1) of the Estate & Gift Duties Act 1968. The Trust is also exempt from income tax on business income derived for charitable purposes under sections CB4(1)(c) and (e) of the Income Tax Act 1994.
See IRD Determination Letter
TerraNature is listed as a donee organisation that Inland Revenue has approved for the purposes of sections KC 5, DB 32 and DV 11 of the Income Tax Act 2004. When a person makes a donation to an organisation on the list, generally they can claim a rebate for that donation, or a deduction in the case of certain companies.
See IRD Donee organisations list |
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