National marine and freshwater wananga

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Every year The Whitebait Connection's umbrella organisation, the Mountains to Sea Conservation trust (MTSCT), hosts a National Marine and Freshwater Wananga to provide an inspirational professional development and networking opportunity for all those involved or interested in freshwater and marine conservation.

The wananga objectives are to:

Provide a forum for marine and freshwater educators to network about education for sustainability initiatives & projects. (School and/or community based).
To provide professional development
To provide a forum to discuss ideas on how we can foster and take more action for marine and freshwater conservation.
Ensure strong delivery of the Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR) and Whitebait Connection (WBC) concepts around New Zealand.

2020 Mountains to Sea National Wananga, Coromandel

Registrations are now open - register today!

It is official, our annual Mountains to Sea Wananga will be held in Kennedy Bay, Coromandel from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th April.

You can find our latest programme here. Please note that this is an evolving document and finer details will be confirmed in due course. You can also follow our facebook event or view proceedings from previous wananga below and watch this space for any updates!

A short clip of our 2019 wananga in Kaitaia, Northland: