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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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Education

  • Freshwater inquiry programme
  • National inanga spawning education programmes

For schools, kura and early childhood centres.

Citizen science, community events and training

  • Find out more about how to monitor, enhance and restore your local waterway
  • Inanga spawning site surveys and restoration advice and services
  • Community group workshops
  • Community events such as planting days, stream clean up days and information displays

National and regional events

  • National marine and freshwater wananga
  • Regional freshwater hui

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Instant teaching - just add water

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We deliver interactive and holistic in-stream learning experiences where key environmental education concepts are explored, such as interdependence, sustainability and biodiversity.

Seven regions of NZ

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We are operational all year round in seven regions throughout New Zealand.

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Native seedlings planted

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Riparian habitat restored

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People reached by WBC

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Hours of volunteer time

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Whitebait spawning habitats adopted

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WBC inspired projects

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School programmes delivered

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Wai Connection Announcement

We’re really pleased to announce that Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust is receiving $18 million from the Essential Freshwater Fund (EFF) to build capability and

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Please support us by sponsoring us or making a donation. By doing so, you are actively supporting Whitebait Connection in inspiring our next generation of New Zealanders to be kaitiaki of our freshwater and the surrounding environment.

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 Pic's from Whitebait Connection's Instream programme, native freshwater fish and microinvertebrates...

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