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About

Our Charter

Recognising that we live in one of the most pristine and unique areas in New Zealand we will actively promote and manage the integration of ecological, social, cultural and economic goals for our community’s sustainable development.

Our Mission

We wish to actively influence community decisions and to work co-operatively to inspire and provide guidance for the benefit of current and future generations and the environment.

Aims

  • To position Wanaka as New Zealand’s most successful sustainable community.
  • To be catalytic and solution based in facilitating activities that bring our vision into reality.
  • To seek the highest possible levels of public participation and endorsement in all our initiatives.
  • To identify true costs and develop time frames in all our planning that recognize the life cycles of affected organisms.
  • To ensure access to the best information and the best science to thereby inform and motivate our community.
  • To ensure perennial funding of our organizational capacity that reflects our financial independence and wide community participation.
  • To develop a baseline of current economic, ecological and social performance in all relevant areas and to define indicators that measure improvement or deterioration from there.

Finally that in subscribing as individuals to this Charter we recognize our overarching duty to encourage other individuals, groups,businesses and governments to think globally, act locally and commit personally to the behavioural change that is required of all of us to make sustainable existence a success.

Wanaka, 2004

First Amendment (February 2005):

Recognising that obtaining sufficient resources within our community to be able to provide the sort of personnel and services that we aspire to, involves a lengthy funding and development process; and recognising the opportunity to create a significant level of immediate activity by focusing on sustainable tourism funding opportunities.

We agree to amend the aims of the charter for the next 3 to 5 years from hereon by applying our energies to succeeding with sustainable tourism as a priority. We further agree in due course to use our skill and experience from the tourism sector to apply across other key areas of activity within our community.