Simon Hall: running NZ's largest private conservation estate

Simon Hall (Ngāti Kahungunu) has spent two decades channelling the success of family business Tasti Foods into conservation. Tasti made New Zealand’s first muesli bar - the iconic Snak Log - and Hall has put nearly $12 million of profit into what has become New Zealand’s largest private conservation project. The Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust is re-establishing native New Zealand plants and animals at risk of extinction.

Simon Hall with a kiwi egg (PHOTO: supplied)

Patron Rachel Hunter releases Takamoana (a North Island brown kiwi) into the Maungataniwha Native Forest with Simon Hall (PHOTO: John Cowpland)

Whio ducks (PHOTO: supplied)

Maungataniwha pines to native (PHOTO: supplied)

Kakabeak planting (PHOTO: supplied)

Waiau Camp in Maungataniwha Native Forest (PHOTO: supplied)

A kiwi warmer with Forest Lifeforce (PHOTO: supplied)

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