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Whitebait Connection is an action based environmental education programme for schools and communities focusing on the health of our streams, rivers and wetlands
Tangible and specific ways in which New Zealanders can come to understand and become involved in the future health of our local streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands.
National Marine and Freshwater Wananga
Regional Freshwater Hui
Water Quality Monitoring
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"After discovering their local freshwater environments students and communities are inspired and encouraged to take action for their local catchment"
Kim Jones
Our programme
Instant teaching - just add water. We come to your school to help you plan and coordinate our programme into your curriculum. Find out more about the programme here...
We're excited to launch our second He Kākano resource to help schools and communities with setting up their own native plant nursery to grow native plants.
We are stoked we will be present at several Northland events again this summer as part of Northland Regional Council's Check-Clean Dry campaign!Make sure you always check-clean-dry between waterways to protect our precious freshwater environments.
Whitebait spawning sites on Northland rivers are being improved by landowners, environmental groups, local iwi and schools with financial and physical help from Fonterra. Northland regional manager Mike Borrie says the grassroots efforts to survey and enhance…
Students at Coroglen and Puriri Schools have just completed “The Whitebait Connection,” a learning programme about freshwater conservation and catchment restoration. The programme was founded in 2002 under the umbrella of the Northland-based Mountains to Sea…
Whitebait Connection - a freshwater community conservation education programme