It seems everyone in the Eastern Bay of Plenty has a good word about Bill Clark and his many hats. He is a conservationist, entrepreneur, author, the energy behind the Onepu Community Recreation Park and the restoration of the Tumurau Lagoon, and is a Bay of Plenty Regional Councillor.
Talking points
If you want more whitebait, you have to make whitebait habitat
It gives me a feel good. There’s so many naysayers out there that say if you build it they’ll break it, I accept there will be a little bit of collateral damage… but that’s only one person, there’s 99 enjoying it and looking after it.
Kia ora Bill, how’s our wetland doing bro? – that gives me a great deal of satisfaction
Service clubs: Saw the need for what they could achieve, and got out and did it.
An environmental activist, I don’t go out on the streets, I get out and do stuff.
Our governance and management systems…are working with value systems of yesterday, when resources seemed infinite.
We have yet to realise that our resources are not infinite and we can not carry on the way we are doing things and sustain ourselves on this planet – it’s as simple as that.
Thinking forward
I like my life. Is see what I do in the environment is a form of creativity.
Advice: Enjoy Aotearoa and look.