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		<title>WCEET Funding Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/wceet-funding-update/</link>
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		<title>Hucks Wetlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/hucks-wetlands/</link>
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		<title>WCEET 2010 Funding Round Now Closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/wceet-2010-funding-round-now-open/</link>
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		<title>Ohaaki Wetland Project – Progress Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/ohaaki-wetland-project-%e2%80%93-progress-update/</link>
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		<title>Fish Passage Restoration Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/fish-passage-restoration-project/</link>
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		<title>Lake Serpentine Pest Fish Barrier Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May 2009 a WCEET funded workshop of New Zealand experts was held to consider the feasibility (including possible designs) of pest fish barriers for installation at Waikato lowland lakes –with a particular view to testing a trial design at the outlet of the Lake Serpentine (Rotopiko) complex.  Nutrients, sedimentation and the presence of pest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/lake-serpentine-pest-fish-barrier-options/</link>
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		<title>WCEET &#8211; Fifth Anniversary Celebration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 14th October at an afternoon function held in Hamilton, the Trust celebrated 5 years of funding projects in the Waikato Catchment.  Guests from throughout the Catchment including local Iwi, Local and Regional Councils, conservation and wetland enthusiasts, representatives from the organisations who have received funding and founding organisations were welcomed by Tainui&#8217;s Gannin Ormsbyand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/wceet-fifth-anniversary-celebration/</link>
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		<title>Pukawa Wildlife Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pukawa Wildlife Management Trust consists of a small number of dedicated residents who check rat and stoat traps on a weekly basis in the settlement of Pukawa on the shores of Lake Taupo.  The group have also established a comprehensive network of rat bait stations to assist in keeping rat numbers at a low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/pukawa-wildlife-group/</link>
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		<title>Blue Duck Project Charitable Trust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Hundred dead predators and counting … This has being the success to date since Turangi business people lead by Garth Oakden, Nick Singers and Craig Morey set up the Blue Duck Project Charitable Trust to protect Blue Duck (or &#8221;Whio&#8221;) on the Tongariro River.  This is a great local project which sets out to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/blue-duck-project-charitable-trust/</link>
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		<title>Conservation Award for Moerangi Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Late in 2008 Barry Pope, manager of Moerangi Station was awarded with a Tongariro Taupo Conservation Award for the work which has been completed in planting the riparian sections of the station. Moerangi Station is located between Lake Otamangakau and Kuratau, and comprises a large part of the upper catchment of the Kuratau River. The award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wceet.org.nz/conservation-award-for-moerangi-station/</link>
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