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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.

Mangakahia Area School Programme, 2022

In term 1 of 2022 Whitebait Connection Coordinators Nic and Pat worked with Merryn Robinson and her year 7-10 classes at Mangakahia Area School for programme delivery. During the class introduction sessions it was evident the students already had alot of knowledge associated with fresh water and their local taiao.

As part of the programme the students went on a field trip to the local Karukaru awa. There were a diversity of macroinvertebrates at the site and a variety of fish.

Finnisha Tuhiwai, kaitiaki from Te Parawhau came along to the field trip and had a korero with the students about her mahi translocating elvers and shared some knowledge about tuna. The students were lucky to see a bucket full of elvers. Ngā mihi ki a koe e Finnisha, thank you for supporting our programme with Mangakahia Area School!