Conservation Week Photo Comp for School aged children in Nelson & Tasman.

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“Meet the Locals” – 2008
Conservation Week Photograph Competition for School aged children in Nelson and Tasman.

Tasman District and Nelson City Councils’ are offering 9 prizes of $50 book vouchers and also runner up prizes of “Way to Go” packs.

School aged students are to send us their best photo of a –
“Meet a Local” – a native plant, animal or historic place.

There are 3 sections Years 1 – 5, Years 6 – 9 and Years 10 – 13.
(Consideration will be given for age within each group).
One photo per student in each category.
We ask for a signature to indicate the child/youth took the photo themselves. This signature could be supplied by an adult for young children.

A special section of “the Baddies Special” has another 3 prizes of $50 each book vouchers – we would like to see photos of active pest destruction or weed eradication to help protect the native ones!

Closing Date is September 12th 2008. Photos with this post date will be accepted.

Either email the photo to rob.francis@tdc.govt.nz) (2MB max size) or post to Rob Francis at TDC Private Bag 4 Richmond 7050 (A4 max size) or drop it in to any Local Council office in Nelson or Tasman. (Please clearly address it to Rob Francis).

The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Judges will be from both NCC and TDC. Images may be used by Council for further publicity. Photos will not be returned to the photographer so please only send copies.

For more information please contact Rob Francis TDC 03 543 8484 (rob.francis@tdc.govt.nz) or Karen Lee NCC 03 546 0339 (karen.lee@ncc.govt.nz) .

Thanks to Claire Webster for sending this out to us!
If you are doing the "baddies special" - please consider humane instant kill traps - we don't like the idea of seeing things suffering!