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Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa
Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa is a tangata whenua iwi planning document prepared and mandated by Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua. It was published in 2021
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We've created a selection of Ngāti Rārua nature stories for you to share with your family, friends and the world.
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Latest Kotahitanga mō te Taiao newsletter
Edition #8 of the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao ePānui brings you stories and updates from various project teams.
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Blenheim Sewage Treatment Plant Hui
This kaupapa continues the advocacy and mahi of whānau over many years to protect this very significant area from the effects of the plant.
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Kotahitanga mō te Taiao ePanui
Edition #4 of the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao ePānui brings you stories and updates from our project teams.
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Kaitiaki Whenua - Project Moturoa
It's not too late! Enrolments are still open for Kaitiaki Whenua Project Moturoa – New Zealand Certificate in Conservation.
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Tackling wasps in Te Tauihu
Common and German wasps are having a massive negative impact in Aotearoa. In Te Tauihu especially, we have the highest recorded numbers anywhere in the world. It is our luscious honeydew-producing beech forests that attract the wasps in their droves.
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Measuring the health of our environment
To help inform and support conservation and restoration efforts, the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance is developing measures of ecosystem health, which encompass iwi and cultural values, and social and economic wellbeing.
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Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance project updates
In our second edition of Kotahitanga mō te Taiao ePānui we share three hero stories from our Projects on the ground.
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Introducing the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance
The Alliance's vision is for our extraordinary natural heritage to be flourishing, and for people to live, care for, and benefit from the environment.
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Waikoropupū: Waiora, wairua
Mauri ora: Last week the trustees and senior staff visited Te Waikoropupū during the start-of-year strategic hui.
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Key appointment to support environmental strategy
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua has appointed a Pouwhakahaere Taiao (Environmental Manager) to support the environmental management strategy and plan. Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua Pouwhakahaere Shane Graham said the newly-created role was a critical part of the strategy to be active kaitiaki/guardians of the environment. “The Pouwhakahaere Taiao
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Māori and Antarctica: Ka mua, ka muri seminar series
> Ka kawe nga kī i te Tonga To carry the knowledge from the South Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei wānanga ipurangi hosted by te rōpū rangahau [https://maoriantarctica.org/about-researchers/], the Vision Mātauranga team of Ross Sea Region Research and Monitoring Plan. This research aims to engage Māori