John is on the committee of the A Rocha local group in Auckland. A retired secondary school teacher, John Staniland has been closely involved with Forest & Bird for more than 50 years and was the first chairman of its Waitākere Branch. He is an inaugural trustee of Matuku Link. He is a founder and honorary ranger of the Society’s 120-hectare Matuku Reserve, which is adjacent to Matuku Link. He organised the purchase of several blocks of forest to bring the Forest & Bird reserve to its present size and has been looking after it ever since the first block was bought in 1979.
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