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The Backcountry Trust secures two million in funding from the Kaimahi for Nature programme

24/10/2020

 
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Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage (right) with members of the Murchison based rafting company Ultimate Descents at East Matakitaki Hut with BCT board chair Craig Benbow second from right.
On the 4th of September the Minister for Conservation Eugenie Sage announced that two million in funding from the government's Kaimahi for Nature fund would be made available for the Backcountry Trust. This funding will be used to deliver a program of catch up maintenance work in the backcountry over the next two years.

The BCT Kaimahi for Nature program will run alongside out existing volunteer programme which continues unchanged. This initiative is part of the governments emergency Covid response and the Backcountry Trust has worked with DOC, and local communities affected by the tourism down turn, to out together a series of projects to help achieve the twin goals of getting more work done maintaining the hut and track network while providing valuable part time employment into these communities.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/122637557/tourism-staff-restoring-backcountry-huts-with-jobs-for-nature-funding
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