Lance Salt

Lance is an ecological restoration specialist with extensive practical and managerial experience delivering pest plant and animal control, indigenous revegetation and biosecurity projects across Aotearoa New Zealand. He has strong expertise in plant identification, pest plant management, herbicide application and indigenous plant revegetation, with experience across a diverse range of ecosystems and land tenures. Lance manages and mentors restoration field teams in Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Canterbury and provides technical restoration advice to ecologists nationwide. He plays a key role in connecting ecological planning with practical implementation, ensuring restoration methods are practical to implement, and implementation on the ground is ecologically sound and effective. His project management experience includes subcontractor and stakeholder engagement; and includes wetland, braided river, coastal, riparian and high-country restoration.