Black Cat Cruises supports Trust with $24,000

Black Cat Cruises is supporting the Quail Island Ecological Restoration Trust with $24,000 worth of sponsorship over the next three years.

Volunteers and trust workers must travel to the island throughout the year to perform the important tree planting, weed eradication, nursery work and monitoring of the success of plant and animal re-introduction activity, and Black Cat Cruises Managing Director Bingham said his company recognised their efforts and it was important work that needed financial support.

“We operate cruises to the island in Lyttelton Harbour and recognise the work being done on Quail Island by the Trust is extremely valuable in encouraging public understanding, awareness and care of the island and its historic, cultural and natural values.”

“They work very hard to foster interest in the restoration project through publicity and education and we identified it as a project worth supporting.”

Ian MacDonald, the chairman of the Quail Island Trust, welcomed the news of Black Cat Cruises sponsorship. “We have been generously assisted by Black Cat Cruises for a number of years and this level of help means that our volunteers do not have to pay to get to Quail Island to work on our eco-restoration project”

For eight years Black Cat Cruises has supported the Trust and its focus to restore the island to its former glory with native trees, birds, lizards and others animals.

Black Cat’s sponsorship is for travel the volunteers and trust workers who go to the island throughout the year to perform the restoration work.

Black Cat Cruises has been operating for 23 years and is a former winner of the Supreme tourism award and is the largest tourism operator on Banks Peninsula, and operates a ferry daily to Quail Island from October to April.

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For more information about the trust see http://www.blackcat.co.nz/quailisland.asp
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For more information please contact:
Paul Bingham
Black Cat Cruises Managing Director
0274 951 110
www.blackcat.co.nz

John McKenzie
enthuse ltd
021 384 730
03 384 7338