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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.

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Onerahi School Programme, 2023

In term 2 of 2023 three of Onerahi School's year 3/4 classes engaged in a Whitebait Connection programme with coordinators Pat, Tracey & Greer.
 
Their programme included a local freshwater investigation at their local awa Waimahanga. At the Waimahanga awa the students did water quality testing, gathered macroinvertebrate samples and observed fish species that were caught in gee minnow traps and a hinaki. Positive things the students noted about the awa including shading, cool temperatures, high clarity and a high diversity of fish species. 
 
347559220 1870254910017910 2625969660558589270 nStudents met a tuna on their local freshwater investigation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Proceeding their local freshwater investigation the students vistied Dragonfly Springs Wetland Sanctuary for an action day. During the action day the students learnt about the importance of wetlands and their function. Thanks to Jeremy at Dragonfly Springs for hosting the students for their action day and to Foundation North for funding this programme.
 
347628335 168981106131483 40794807716836058 nJeremy talking to the students during their visit to Dragonfly Springs