Tiaki Nga Wai O Hokianga
Catchment Restoration
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Fencing and riparian planting have SO MANY benefits:
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The shade and diversity provided by riparian planting improves the overall ecological health of waterways, which in turn enables more life to flourish.
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The biomass helps reduce excess nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus running into waterways and promoting algal growth
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It stabilises the banks reducing erosion loss of land
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It helps to reduce sedimentation and siltation causing downstream effects such as silting up the harbour and estuaries, helping to protect breeding grounds for much of our beloved sea life.
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Native biodiversity increases
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Shade for stock and less liver fluke
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Stock can be excluded from sensitive or hazardous environments (in bogs/wetlands/deep holes/tomos
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Improves the aesthetic appearance
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Ensures compliance with national environmental and freshwater regulations
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Eco Sourcing Seeds
Eco sourcing is important as it preserves the genetic diversity amongst plant communities within a region.
Botanists and conservationists regularly identify subtle differences in species e.g. Manuka between valleys and across regions which represents an evolution over the millennia at a species level.
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Eco sourcing also ensures the fittest and most suitable propagated stock is planted in terms of catchment restoration- which leads to greater success of planting projects thus spurring on the movement to sustainably manage our freshwater ecosystems.
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Building Capability
We believe in learning and sharing knowledge and we hope that by providing connectivity between community groups and roopu within our community we can collectively work towards improving the health of the harbour.
Building capability and supporting our community is a key outcome and we work holding workshops, hui, and wananga on a regular basis.
Our team has some great skills to share and a wide network of support and expertise to pull in when needed - from biosecurity and disease management through to project management, events, and community engagement.
