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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.

Morningside School Programme, 2022

In term 3 2022 Nic & Tracey from Whitebait Connection delivered a short programme to Morningside Primary School which involved field trips to the urban Tarewa & Raumanga streams in Whangarei.

20220704 093542 Measuring clarity at the Tarewa stream

Being an urban stream the Raumanga stream suprisingly showed signs of great health. This was reflected in macroinvertebrate samples consisting of a diversity of species including pollution sensitive species. A large diversity of fish species were also caught.

20220705 092451 Waiting to see the haul at the Raumanga stream