TAIAO Ngāitakoto

Exciting News! 🌿 Our team had an amazing day with NRCconducting EDNA testing at Lake Ngatu! 🧬🔬

Our dedicated team worked tirelessly to collect environmental DNA samples to study the biodiversity of this beautiful ecosystem. 🌳🦎🌸

EDNA testing is a technique that allows us to uncover hidden treasures beneath the water's surface and understand the intricate web of life in our natural surroundings. 🌏🔍

Stay tuned for updates on our findings and discoveries from this fascinating expedition! 📈🔎

Witana Harris-Awarau

First Aid Course With Pro Med, Ran By Simon Townsend Aka (Lofty) 2-3 Day Refresher, which was held in Pawerenga Old Boys Club
alongside

Department Of Conservation
And Pawerenga/Mitimiti Jobs For Nature Taiao

Had the Team out and about laying out more signs along Ninety-Mile beach.

Taiao team at Waiharara school talking about turtles 🐢 ahead of our Turtle release next week, Wednesday the 13th of December.

- Special thanks to Kylie McDowell from the department of conservation for the presentation
To our kaikorero this morning Jahrome Rippingale and Witana Harris-Awarau awesome mahi 🙌🏾

And to our future kaitiaki of Waiharara school ❤️

Taiao Team busy out there today. Mowing lawns and erecting signs along Te Oneroa a Tohe

Our Taiao team tree releasing Manuka/Kanuka Ti-Tree at Lake Waipareira🙌🏾

Members from the Taiao team attended an ArcGIS workshop yesterday. The objective was learn how to utilise ArcGIS technology to identify and monitor critical habitats, tracking wildlife, developing strategies and data collection.

Tūmeke e te iwi💪 filling your knowledge kete with tools to enhance your kaitiakitanga capabilities🌏

Muriwhenua in the whare!🌳🤓

Awesome facilities Digital Hub - Kaitaia and cheers Roland Te Kahu o Taonui!!📍

In the midst of bad weather our boys were still out checking and monitoring our trap lines. In Kaimaumau (Mekerene Block, Norton Road) and Waiharara

Some of the traps and bait that we use are as followed
-SA200
-Trapinator
-DOC200
-DOC250
-Flipping Timmys
-Bait Stations

Bait
-Smooth lure
-Flour
-Pest Off Possum Bait

Last week our team were out and about maintaining our local lakes and tracks around Lake Ngatu/Waipareira

Waimanoni Marae will be receiving a newly carved waharoa/tomokanga as a gift from Kingitanga in the very near future. This was something promised to our late Uncle Mangu Awarau before his passing.

As part of the preparation for this process, our TAIAO Ngāitakoto team were given the role of escorting whale bone from our stranded tupuna named 🐋TE WAIMOHO🐋 into Tainui rohe for the master carver Renata and his team to utilise in the waharoa/tomokanga.

We accompanied Evon Harris and Missy Edwards who also delivered the kōrero for the carving from the people of Waimanoni. Not only was this journey an honour, as we basked in the manaakitanga of Kingitanga over a period of three days carrying taonga with us, but we were also able to further build upon our exisitng relationship and connectivity with our Tainui whanaunga.

We witnessed how they manage their assets. Observed their nursery and got an insight into how they operate. They allowed us to observe their management structure and also see what possibilities and opportunities exist thirty years post settlement🙏

Ngā mihi e te iwi, e te whānau e te Kingitanga. Thank you for entrusting us with this role and allowing connectivity to play out a process that will weave together a bright future for many🤝

Kia ora e te iwi🌿

Welcome to our new page for TAIAO Ngāitakoto 🔺️▪️

Please like, follow and/or share this page to follow our journey as the kaitiaki of Ngāitakoto. Not only within our own rohe, but in partnership with whanaunga iwi and across the motu to strengthen relationships, build capacity and sustain future growth🤝

We would like to bring our whānau on this journey with us, caring for and nurturing the land and moana to which we belong - you belong!

If you need to contact our team, please use the following details;

🐚 Wiremu Marsden
[email protected]

🐚 Joseph Cook
[email protected]

🐚 Carlos Petrecevich
[email protected]

Watch this space as we update our content, share our mahi, opportunities for our iwi and community to engage and share one of our most recent haerenga down to the welcoming manaaki of Tainui where we held the honourable role of delivering whale bone which will be used in the new waharoa for Waimanoni Marae as a gift from Kingitanga🙏

Nau mai haere mai!