Article written by Louisa Steyl, reproduced from Stuff. “Look what I’ve caught,” young environmental cadet Josh Aitken shouts excitedly. He is carrying out monitoring work on the Mataura River and has just caught a brilliant silver-blue juvenile kanakana (lamprey). Freshwater ecologist Matt Dale… Read more
Posted: 23 May 2022
On 16 May 2022 the Government announced its commitment to planting 100,000 trees around Aotearoa, in a new partnership with Project Crimson. Project Crimson, the charitable trust responsible for nationwide planting project Trees that Count, recently hit the funding milestone of one million trees. Read more
Posted: 20 May 2022
By Tegan Ramage … Hokonui Rūnanga Taiao team, along with Toitu te Whenua – Land Information New Zealand, Longford Intermediate, Te Tapu o Tāne, and our Kaitiaki tauira have been very privileged to be part of the latest video additions to the LEARNZ online field trips website, about the Hokonui… Read more
Posted: 19 May 2022
By Tegan Ramage … The tauira, along with facilitator Matt Dale, set hīnaki in multiple areas stretching from the Mataura Mātaitai through to Wyndham and Edendale, where they caught tuna to investigate. The tauira said that they caught both Perch and Tuna on the day. There were two separate buckets… Read more
Posted: 10 May 2022
By Tamara Ramage … From 11-13 April 2022, we were privileged to have Richard Allibone from Water Ways Consulting, who facilitated the three days of electrofishing and taught our tauira some amazing new skills. The tauira started their mornings at O Te Ika Rama Marae participating in fish ID… Read more
Posted: 10 May 2022