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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.

Waipu Primary School Programme, 2022

In term 1 and 2 of 2022 six classes from Waipu Primary School engaged in a Whitebait Connection programme with Programme Coordinators Nic and Pat. As part of their programme the students were lucky to have the opportunity to visit a pristine stream near Lang's Beach.

The stream had a high diversity of sensitive macroinvertebrate species indicating high water quality including mayflies and stoneflies. A diverse range of fish species were observed too including longfin tuna, common bullies, giant bullies, redfin bullies, īnanga and banded kōkopu.

If you would like to find out more about this programme delivery with Waipu Primary pleasee contact WBC Programme Coordinators Nic: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Patricia: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.