Kia Wharite

This partnership was started in 2008 and aims to protect some of our most precious taonga in one of the most stunning and least-visited areas of the North Island. Blue Duck (Whio), North Island Brown Kiwi, and old growth forest will be protected by the combined pest control efforts of DOC, Horizons, landowners and iwi.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog for the Kia Wharite Project. Follow our progress here!
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      • Welcome!

Developing skills in local communities

The project partners have worked with Whanganui Iwi, the Ministry of Social Development and Te Puni Kokiri to develop capacity in local communities to carry out conservation work.

Under the banner of Te Amo Taiao, the Hinengakau Development Trust (an iwi based organisation) has employed four trainee staff and a supervisor to learn conservation related skills.

The team has developed into a highly competent group now carrying out conservation related contract work for Kia Wharite.

Te Amo Taiao cadets learning chainsaw skills.

Kia Wharite wins IPANZ award

Kia Wharite won the Working Together for Better Services category at the IPANZ awards on Friday 18 June.

The Excellence in Working Together for Better Services Award recognises outstanding performance and achievement of joint outcomes across public sector agencies and identifies projects which will enhance government’s engagement with communities.

The Kia Wharite project integrates management of 180,000ha of the Whanganui Catchment to improve land, water and biodiversity health, and enhance community and economic well-being. It is the largest project of its kind in New Zealand in terms of scale and scope and has already achieved national species protection targets.

DOC and Horizon staff with the award.

Working with local schools

Kaitieke School in the Kaitieke Valley and Orautoha School in the Ruatiti Valley are the main schools within the project area and are regularly involved in the project.

Orautoha School monitor their own stoat trap lines with the help of local whio Rangers. They are also working with Horizons Regional Council building their own wetland which will benefit all of the native species near the school including the whio that live nearby.

Kaitieke school are actively involved in data analysis and raising public awareness for Kia Wharite. In 2008 they made their own environmental film titled ‘Protecting our native Blue Duck’ and planted 200 native trees as a first step to restoring the back paddock to native bush and to increase native birdlife and protect the Kaitieke stream.

In term two of this year the children studied a number of animal pest species and the impact they have on our native species, and this inquiry concluded with the children placing four DOC200 traps in the school native area, which they now monitor.

Each school keeps a pest tally out the front of the school to enable the locals to get an idea of how many pests are being caught locally.

For more information

Horizons Regional Council 0508 800 800 http://www.horizons.govt.nz/
DoC Whanganui Area Office 06 349 2100 http://www.doc.govt.nz/
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