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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.

Kamo High School 2011

2 Year 9 Science classes took part in the Whitebait Connection programme in Term One, 2011 and tested the water quality of the Waitaua River (including just downstream of the falls and along Corks Rd at 'Damselfly Creek') and the Otangarei Stream as part of the Waitaua Catchment Restoration Network.

View their results here.

View photos from their field trip here.