Press Release – Ryman Healthcare A group of Charles Upham Retirement Village residents are working on a rush order of predator traps after the May 30 floods devastated a conservation initiative. The residents at the Ryman village in Rangiora have been manufacturing hundreds of traps …
A group of Charles Upham Retirement Village residents are working on a rush order of predator traps after the May 30 floods devastated a conservation initiative.
The residents at the Ryman village in Rangiora have been manufacturing hundreds of traps for Predator Free New Zealand groups as well as the Department of Conservation for conservation initiatives throughout Canterbury over the past 18 months.
Friday, 9 July 2021, 12:50 pm
A group of Charles Upham Retirement Village residents are
working on a rush order of predator traps after the May 30
floods devastated a conservation initiative.
The
residents at the Ryman village in Rangiora have been
manufacturing hundreds of traps for Predator Free New
Zealand groups as well as the Department of Conservation for
conservation initiatives throughout Canterbury over the past
18 months.
They’re now working on a rush order of 80
traps for the Ashley-Rakahuri Rivercare Group, whose
conservation efforts were devastated by the May
floods.
Peter Whitehead, from the Rivercare
conservation group, said the floods had wiped out dozens of
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Press Release – Ryman Healthcare
Ryman Healthcare’s very own resident Olympian Barry Magee learned some karate moves from Andrea Anacan, announced today as the first New Zealander to ever compete in karate at the Olympic Games.
Olympic medal winner Barry, who is a resident at Ryman’s Murray Halberg Retirement Village in Lynfield, presented Anacan with a fern to formally welcome her to the Olympic team.
While Barry won a bronze medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960 for the marathon event, he was happy to prove that you can still teach an ‘old dog’ new tricks, with Andrea taking him and the residents and media gathered through some basic kata drills.