Obituary: Paul Every
CONSERVATION LOST a staunch and practical advocate with the death in August of Paul Every at the age of 85. Born in Gore, Paul developed an early love of the forests, rivers and backcountry of Otago and Southland which he travelled extensively on a one-speed bicycle. A school teacher in Dunedin, then Taranaki dairy farmer, Paul and his wife Phyllis retired to a 20-hectare haven on the Otago Peninsula in the 1970s where Paul created a refuge for native plant and animal life, and grew native plants for restoration projects. He helped form a trust for the protection of yellow-eyed penguins and, with Phyllis, donated a block on their property as a small reserve for a colony of native green gecko.
Paul was also a driving force behind the replanting of Jacks Blowhole Reserve — a childhood haunt — and a founding committee member of Forest and Bird’s 220-hectare Lenz Reserve on Tautuku Bay. A life member of the society, Paul was awarded an Old Blue by Forest and Bird in 1989 for his long service to conservation.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 55
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