It has been a busy 4 months for the Trust.  Thirteen new projects in the Waikato Catchment were approved funding which include fencing and planting; wetland, water quality, gamebird habitat and trout population enhancement; fish passage and major group sponsorship of Waikato RiverCare.  The 2010 projects are throughout the Waikato Catchment from Turangi to Pokeno and the Trust is [...]

The Waikato Catchment Ecological Enhancement Trust 2010 funding round for ecological enhancement projects in the Waikato Catchment, was opened on the 14th October by Trust Chair Gwyneth Verkerk. Applications closed on the 31st January 2010, applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications prior to March 31st 2010.

“The Willow Pond” located on the Upper Waikato River, right bank adjoining Vaile Road has been renamed Hucks Wetlands after Mike Hucks a keen game bird hunter and advocate who passed away in 2008.  In 2006 The Wildflowlers Association was successful in securing a grant from the Waikato Ecological Enhancement Trust to restore water levels [...]

Fish and Game are currently overseeing an ambitious project to construct a new 24 ha wetland at Ohaaki on the Waikato River. It has been predicted by the year 2030, subsidence, as a result of geothermal abstraction by the Ohaaki Power Station, will be sufficient for the entire site to be covered by water from [...]