Busted this Man stealing from an environmental restoration group I am a part of.
Funding doesn't come easy to when it comes to giving our natural heritage the helping hand it needs.
Disheartening when one person tries to undermine the efforts of so many volunteers on the front line controlling invasive plants and mammalian predators.
Here is a great TV1 article by enviro reporter Kendall Hutt.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/0...
Saw this as an opportunity to plug environmental restoration.. in particular pest plant control!
Below is video footage of the confrontation.
Luckily the man put the goods back, sadly this isn't the first time we have had important equipment stollen and I suspect we have found the culprit.