We are a like-minded group of professionals working together to improve New Zealand’s natural environments. Our business model minimises overheads, allowing us to offer you competitive rates.
Cameron Walker
Auditing, Project Management, QA, Horticulture training
Cam brings 25 years of experience in the ecological and open space management industries. He keeps the ship running here at Makomako, monitoring quality and efficiency. Cam is a Greenflag judge and
PITO assessor. He takes the lead in all open space management auditing and ecological surveys, and helps horticulture students succeed in their studies.
Qualifications: BSc, Dip Management, Dip Business
Call Cam: 021 665 421
Email Cam: cameron@makomako.co.nz
Alex Spires
Ecological Auditing, Operational Management
Alex is our pest plant and pest animal specialist and used to run a team of 14 people undertaking ecological restoration work. Alex takes the lead with pest plant control works, ecological auditing and animal pest control work. Alex also undertakes ecological surveys and health & safety audits.
Qualifications: BSc (Environmental sciences), PGdip (Environmental sciences)
Call Alex: 021 118 3134
Email Alex: alex@makomako.co.nz
Jamie Weaver
Ecological Open Space and HS Auditing, Horticulture Training
An ex-horticultural and playground maintenance operations manager, Jamie can organise anything. Jamie has been undertaking pest plant control, ecological auditing and health & safety auditing. In his spare time, Jamie is a firefighter!
Qualifications: Dip horticulture, Cert Small Business Management
Call Jamie: 021 499 256
Email Jamie: jamie@makomako.co.nz
Shanthie Walker
Education Consultant
Shan is our environmental educator extraordinaire. She has 21 years of experience teaching people about our natural world. Her latest projects are; Lead Educator for the Tread Lightly Caravan (managing 8 staff), writing water and waste related education resources for Tauranga City Council and producing Kiwi advocacy materials for the Australasian Zoological Society.
Qualifications: BSc, PG Dip Teaching
Call Shan: 021 261 0891
Email Shan: shanthie@makomako.co.nz
Tony Hart
Open Space Consultant
Stakeholder Engagement and Open Space specialist, Tony is a master at bringing people onto the same page. Tony is a real people person and has consulted on some huge infrastructure projects, such as the Central Interceptor and the Eastern Busway Alliance. In all his projects, Tony ensures the community are informed, heard, and supported, and that amazing results are achieved for both the project and the wider community.
Qualifications: BSc, (Hons) Conservation Biology, PG Cert Communication Planning & Design, IAP2 Cert Public Participation
Call Tony: 022 396 1978
Email Tony: tony@makomako.co.nz
Louise Rapley
Data Analysis
Louise is our data guru, transforming historical Pest Plant Control records into meaningful insights. In her spare time, Louise is also a multidisciplinary artist working on Arctic based projects.
Email Louise: louie.rapley@gmail.com
www.louiserapley.com
Chris Doussau
Pest Plant Control, Volunteer Restoration
Our horticulture and arboriculture legend. Chris has 10 years experience in hort and arb and helps with pest pant control and volunteer restoration. Chris has his own gardening business, so if your yard needs a professional spruce up – he’s your man!
Call Chris: 021 030 3442
Email Chris: chris@beyondbeleaf.co.nz
www.beyondbeleaf.co.nz
Oscar
Chief Pest and Security Officer
Oscar takes care of rats, rabbits, and possums and even shows amazing courage when dealing with goats. But, he’s not so brave when the vacuum cleaner comes out…
To enlist the services of any of these private sub-contractors, please reach out to them directly using the contact details provided.