January 19th, 2011
Since 2006 the Lower Mangapiko Streamcare Group has been bringing together landowners, businesses, schools and volunteers to focus on restoring the natural environment along the Lower Mangapiko Stream. The group aims to link Pirongia with Maungatautari through a fully restored ecological corridor and they are achieving this through fencing a riparian corridor, removing willow growth […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 5th, 2009
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 […]
September 23rd, 2009
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 […]
September 11th, 2009
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 “Whio”) on the Tongariro River. This is a great local project which sets out to protect […]
September 2nd, 2009
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 […]
