Sustainability

Sustainability is vital to our future. That’s why at Awatuna Sunset Lodge we strive to reduce our tourism impact and invite you to help us do this while you enjoy your stay.

The Tiaki Promise

Thank you for choosing to stay at Awatuna Sunset Lodge.

Elizabeth, Selwyn and our wonderful staff are committed to the Tiaki Promise to care for, and look after our environment for our generation, the next generation and many more generations to come.

We strive to reduce our tourism impact and invite you to help us do this while you enjoy your stay.

Practical steps that we take to care for people and our environment include:

  • We grow fruit and vegetables to be as self-sufficient as possible.
  • Excess fruit and vegetables are turned into sauces, chutneys, and jams Elizabeth preserves and/or freezes to use throughout the year.
  • Food waste is utilised with vegetable scraps going to our our chooks (chickens), or our Bokashi compost system which allows us to channel 100% of food waste back into our gardens.
  • We bake and cook most food from scratch. This means we save on packaging and plastic, and our food is preservative and artificial additive free.
  • Conserving water as we are on rainwater tanks.
  • We have installed a water recirculation system saving over 5,000 litres of water per annum
  • Water is UV treated and filtered.
  • We encourage guests to fill reusable water bottles to take on hikes and when leaving.
  • All lighting is LED.
  • We support local businesses by purchasing locally.
  • We support local artists by displaying and selling their work.
  • We are eradicating pest plant species on our property and DOC land (Department of Conservation)

                   Te Tangata, Te Tangata, Te Tangata. It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.

We welcome you to wonder through the grounds and enjoy the gardens, frog pond, orchards, vegetable gardens, hidden bush walks, Waimea Creek and Awatuna Beach.

 

Find out more about the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tiaki Promise.

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West Coast Penguin Trust

With a penguin breeding colony in the sand dunes at the edge of the property, Elizabeth also volunteers for the West Coast Penguin Trust, which helps to protect kororā, the Little Blue Penguins.

We are pleased to have raised $413.80, through the generosity of our guests, and radar, our amphibious Argo, for the West Coast Penguin Trust summer season 2024/2025. 

 

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