Wild Hero Award

Lala Frazer, Wild Dunedin’s Wild Hero for 2020.

We are part of a long list of people, academics, students and conservationists, who considered Phil a true Wild Hero.

Wild Dunedin presented our first Wild Hero Award to Sir Alan Mark in 2019 at Otago Museum. Born in Dunedin and living most of his life here, Sir Alan is a true local hero who has great mana throughout Aotearoa.

Host Peter Hayden began the conversation by asking if there was a moment when they became political on the issue of freshwater. For Alan it was when a senior public servant stated that raising Lake Manapouri would ‘improve on nature’…