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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.

Pukenui School Programme, 2020

In 2020 Pukenui School engaged in a Whitebait Connection programme with ex Programme Coordinator Nina. Their programme included a field trip to Korakanui Stream, Houhora for a stream investigation.

Here are the results from their testing:

Habitat Assessment - The students noticed that the stream had some riparian planting and was well-shaded in most parts. They also noticed there were lots of native trees around
Water Temperature - 19-22 degrees celsius
Water Clarity - 30-70cm
pH - 6.5-7
Macroinvertebrates - midges, mayflies, woody cased caddisflies, freshwater shrimp and snails
Fish - inanga and common bullies were caught