Tuatara Coffee

Milano Motor Lodge has this week introduced a new plunger coffee to their Christchurch Motel accommodation complex in line with their commitment to the Environment as per their Mission Statement and Vision for Sustainable Tourism. Milano Motor Lodge mission statement can be viewed on their website www.milanomotorlodge.co.nz

TUATARA COFFEE is organic fair-traded coffee, hand-roasted in Golden Bay, Nelson, New Zealand.

When using this coffee Milano Motor Lodge wants their guests to feel good that they are using a premium quality coffee and are thereby making a contribution to the well being of this reptile.

Milano Motor Lodge has chosen to use this plunger coffee to help support conservation projects. The Tuatara is a living dinosaur which is only found in New Zealand. The coffee company donate 1% of Coffee sales turnover to Tuatara Conservation projects.

TUATARA FACTS and FIGURES:

No one knows how many Tuatara live on New Zealand≠s remote sanctuary islands. Estimates vary between 30,000 and 300,000. About 90 per cent of them live on Takapourewa (Stephens Island) in the Marlborough Sounds.

It is extremely difficult to count them because the adults only come out at night and they like to make their burrows in some very inaccessible places. Some Tuatara never venture more than 10 or 12 metres from their burrow in their whole lifetime.

Tuatara live on a diet consisting mainly of beetles, weta, worms, millipedes and spiders. They also like lizards, seabird eggs and chicks √ and the occasional young Tuatara. Because of this risk of cannibalism, young Tuatara come out during the day and hide at night.

Although the Tuatara was originally thought to be a relation of the iguana, scientists realised 30 years later that the Tuatara was the most primitive reptile in existence and had lived before the dinosaurs 220 million years ago.

Tuatara grow to about 50cm long, weigh up to 1.5kg and are estimated to live as long as somewhere between 80 and 300 years. The very same Tuatara living on New Zealand≠s offshore islands may have watched Captain Cook sail past . . .

Tuatara Coffee have sponsored "Baby Tute" under the Natureland Zoo, Diamond Adoption scheme

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