Latest News
Jul
28
2021
Wainuioru Nursery Workshop
Wairarapa Pūkaha to Kawakawa Alliance invited regional expert Harvey Phillips to provide a training session on pricking out and...
Jul
23
2021
Come and meet the Mangatarere Catchment Project Team
On 11 August, the Mangatarere Restoration Society are hosting a public meeting at Carterton Events Centre.
Jul
21
2021
Biodiversity groups abound
There are over 50 groups in the Wairarapa, both rural and urban, who are working to protect and restore biodiversity in...
Jul
20
2021
Conservation Week in the Wairarapa
There’s a range of activities happening for Conservation Week across the Wairarapa – get involved, there’s something to suit...
Jun
22
2021
Plant a memory. Plant a tree. Do it today for tomorrow.
South Wairarapa Biodiversity Group along with volunteers and students from Martinborough School planted 330 native trees at the...
Jun
22
2021
Planting Seeds | Growing a Community: The Wainuioru School and Community Nursery
The Wainuioru School and Community Nursery has been created to supply seedlings to the Wainuioru Community River Care Group...
May
25
2021
Why use TrapNZ?
by Celia Wade-Brown TrapNZ helps volunteers to record and understand predator control and biodiversity data. TrapNZ is a free...
May
25
2021
Money: Just what you need?
The Wainuioru Community River Care Group (WCRCG) shares the challenges of managing a million-dollar catchment community...
Apr
19
2021
Wairarapa Biodiversity Hui – communities working together for nature
Why not bring back whio, our threatened endemic blue duck to the Wairarapa? This was the challenge that left the room buzzing,...
Mar
25
2021
Kei te mahi tatou mo te taiao – Communities working together for nature
There are at least 52 groups in the Wairarapa, who are working to protect and restore biodiversity in different ways, both rural...
Dec
11
2020
Mokomoko: Learning from the Waipoua
Mokomoko is about students exploring and restoring an area of the Waipoua River
Dec
11
2020
Protecting Banded Dotterel at White Rock
The banded dotterel is as vulnerable as the great spotted kiwi yet not as well known or protected. Thankfully, the Wairarapa’s...
Dec
03
2020
Sustainable Wairarapa Inc: The Upward Influence of Community Involvement
by Ali Mackisack Like many locals, you’ve probably walked over the rocks and along the path leading up to the Castlepoint...
Nov
25
2020
Parkvale Catchment Group: Your chance to make a difference
It’s certainly no cause to celebrate – the Parkvale Stream is one of the more polluted streams in the Wairarapa, with high...
Nov
25
2020
Catastrophic Flooding in Carterton: it’s happened before and it can happen again!
While these photos of Carterton underwater look like they’re set safely in the distant past, Carterton is still at risk of major...
Nov
16
2020
Ahiaruhe Eco Area Catchment Group’s first planting a community effort
By Nanette McDonald You may well have noticed a change at the corner of Ahiaruhe and Millar’s Roads. The native plantings and...
Nov
16
2020
Tonganui Biodiversity Corridors – Looking Forward to the Past
The Aorangi Restoration Trust aim to have functioning native forest, alongside farmland, stretching from the Aorangi forest park...
Sep
24
2020
Urban Reserves
by Rebecca Jamieson Originally published in the summer 2017 issue of the Wairarapa Journal _____________________________ Spring...
Sep
01
2020
Upper Waipoua Kaitiaki Group making a difference
By Ali Mackisack With the cider bottles of river-water samples lined up on the picnic table in front of them, the evidence was...