Mr Mike Camm, of Whangārei, MNZM for services to wildlife conservation
Mike Camm, with his wife, purchased a 120-hectare property in Tutukaka in 1998, with the aim of facilitating kiwi and pateke recovery. He worked with the Department of Conservation to instigate a predator-control system and create a wetland on the property. He established and chairs the Tutukaka Landcare Coalition (TLC). He has led successful reintroductions of pateke and kiwi onto his property and the wider TLC-managed area, contributing to the pateke’s status change of Nationally Endangered to Nationally Increasing. He co-founded Kiwi Coast, which encompasses more than 225 community groups, iwi and hapu, schools, businesses and government agencies. Mr Camm is community representative on the national Pateke Recovery Group.