Mr Stephen Kafka, of Tauranga, MNZM for services to conservation and wildlife research
Stephen Kafka has transported New Zealand conservation workers and researchers to remote sub-Antarctic islands for more than 25 years on his ship Evohe. He was instrumental in the Antipodes Island Mouse eradication, the largest successful mouse eradication globally. He has supported numerous wildlife conservation and research programmes, including the long-term Southern right whale/Tohora research programme by the University of Auckland, albatross researchers on the Antipodes and Adams Islands, penguin censuses, other surveys, and feasibility studies. Mr Kafka has hosted various conservation and wildlife filming crews from international networks and has supported other transport operators to work in the sub-Antarctic.