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Meet some of the people who've been involved with Mokomoko Dryland Sanctuary.

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James Reardon

In the dusk of a Madeira evening, researcher James Reardon scrambled around a small hotel trying to recapture the 40 partially drugged lizards that had escaped from the makeshift pillowcase bag... Read more. 

A surprise encounter with a gecko in her telephone book drawer was one of Rach Baxter’s only experiences of the lizard life in Central Otago. Although she was born and bred here, like most people she... Read more. 

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Rachel Baxter

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Grant Norbury

On any given lunchtime you’re likely to find Dr Grant Norbury on his mountain bike, swooping the narrow single tracks and steep schist slabs of the Alexandra hills... Read more.

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Tim Whittaker

“We’ve got very short time horizons. We like to see things happening in years, or ten years, or a decade or two. But nature doesn’t work like that.” Read more...

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Carey Knox

“I wasn’t all that excited about geckos at the time, until I actually went out there and found one in the wild, then I was like, s*** this is the coolest thing ever, why has no one told me about this!?” Read more...

...or read about the COET trustees here...