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Environmental education

Te aki i te hunga tangata te tiaki inanga... Whitebait Connection provides an inquiry and action based environmental education programme for schools and communities focusing on the health of our streams, rivers and wetlands

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Action outcomes

Participants are inspired to take action for their local catchment including riparian restoration, fencing, stream monitoring, writing letters to government and stream/river clean ups.

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Community engagement

Since 2002, we have been raising awareness of the effects of land-use on the health of our streams, rivers, estuaries and the sea, using whitebait as a medium.

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Conservation Action

As well as supporting communities to take action for freshwater, we sometimes help to lead this action in the form of water quality monitoring, whitebait spawning habitat surveys, habitat enhancement or creation, riparian planting, fencing and pest control, fish passage barrier identification, and stormwater litter monitoring.

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Parihaka Bioblitz & World Fish Migration Day Celebrations

What a great two days we had at the Parihaka Bioblitz on the 4th & 5th of November. This event was held in collaboration with many of our partners including Northland Regional Coumcil, Department of Conservation and Ngā Kaitiaki o Nga Wai Māori. The aim of the event was to identify as many species as possible living on and around Mount Parihaka in Whāngarei. 
 
Schools, preschools and community members engaged with us throughout the two days identifying macroinvertebrates and fish species living in the Hatea awa. On the Saturday we celebrated world fish migration day with a special giant kōkopu giving away books and other spot prizes. Thanks to Whangarei District Council for sponsoring this event 
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