Amber Allott08:49, May 26 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF The Press has helped raise the funds to buy two of Christchurch’s highest peaks for a public conservation park. (First published May 26, 2021) Stuff has teamed up with a charitable trust to help buy a 500-hectare block of gorse-speckled hillside and help it return to its former, forested glory. After a surprise offer from a local farmer, the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust launched its Te Ahu Pātiki project to bring a swathe of Lyttelton-facing land – between Mt Herbert and Mt Bradley – into public ownership. The aim is to make sure people have access to a sprawling network of popular walking tracks in years to come, and turn the whole block into a giant conservation park.