January 14th, 2011
Applications for the 2011 WCEET funding round close in 2 weeks!!! We are currently seeking applications for enhancement projects throughout the Waikato Catchment. The application form is available here: http://www.wceet.org.nz/funding/application-form/ If you have any questions regarding applying please call Trust Administrator Michelle Archer on 07 858 8403.
November 8th, 2010
The Waikato Catchment Ecological Enhancement Trust is now seeking applications for its eighth funding round for ecological enhancement projects in the Lake Taupo and Waikato River catchments. Applications close on 31 January 2011. Funding will go toward assisting organisations, agencies and individuals with projects that foster and enhance the sustainable management of ecological resources in […]
November 1st, 2010
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand worked at Lake Maratoto from 6th September 2010 until 24th September 2010 to complete the planting of approximately 5215 native plants. These plants were paid for with funding from WCEET and primarily included flax, karamu, cabbage tree, manuka and coprosma. Wet weather made transporting plants to the site difficult but over […]
November 1st, 2010
It has been another successful year for WCEET with a number of projects coming to completion and work on ongoing and new Trust funded projects kicking into gear. Please see the link to the Trust’s Annual Report below for more details… WCEET ANNUAL REPORT 2009 – 10 Please forward any questions to Trust Secretary Michelle […]
November 1st, 2010
Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game in association with the Department of Conservation have since 2006 conducted a number of wetland restoration and creation projects around the margins of Lake Waikare. These works have been designed to restore create and enhance wetlands on highly modified public conservation land, often in areas which had previously been drained and […]
June 15th, 2010
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 […]
April 15th, 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 […]
February 1st, 2010
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.
January 20th, 2010
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 […]
November 24th, 2009
In 2008 WCEET confirmed part funding of NIWA’s fish passage project to install spoiler baffles in a 68 m long culvert under River Road, Hamilton to facilitate the passage of fish into Bankwood Stream. This supplements previous work where a fish ramp was installed for the overhanging culvert. The project is now complete and is […]
