**LOST CAT** Please can you help!
**UPDATE** Puss has been found safe and well 🙂Listing on behalf
MISSING My 11 year old male cat, name Sam.
He’s black with a white bib on the chest, he’s a big cat, lost in the area of Berryfield Drive and 40 Youngberry Drive
Richmond, since 24/11. We moved house and area, he got spooked and managed to get under a gap in our fence, we’ve looked everywhere as long as we could have before leaving for CHCH.. the new owners are also on the lookout for him as well as my son who lives in Nelson has been looking for him too.. He’s microchipped, but doesn’t have a collar on. He’s our family and we would love to have him back safely.. PLEASE check your gardens, in between plants, sheds and garages if he’s there. He’s probably very scared and doesn’t do well with strangers. Any info of seeing him would be so appreciated.. if found please contain him somewhere safe, contact me on 0272450304 and my son will come and pick him up.
Thank You
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Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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