30 Jun 2025

Animal rescue sanctuary destroyed by flood waters

From Checkpoint, 4:22 pm on 30 June 2025

A Marlborough animal rescue has lost all its feed in flood waters which also destroyed farm equipment and shelters as the property was swamped. Te Paranui Animal and Farm Sanctuary near Koromiko is home to about 50 animals. Animals and the volunteers were left sheltering on an island of land surrounded by a moat of flood waters after a raft of wild weather. Now, more heavy rain is expected later in the week. Sanctuary manager Alex Radford spoke to Lisa Owen.