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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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Aranga School 2012

Aranga School have been doing the WBC programme with coordinator Kim Jones in Term One, 2012. They checked out their local waterways last week. Check out the video clip here or the data they collected here.

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Then they ventured off to the Kai iwi lakes for some action! Students and parents worked with Kaipara District Council staff to plant 350 plants by the lakes and then they went snorkeling and learnt how to identify the native fish and plants and potential pest fish and plants. After this they took even more action by performing their Check, Clean, dry radio ads at the ski club and at their school prizegiving. An article they got published in their local paper about thier action to help spread the word is featured below. Go Aranga School!

Aranga School 2011

Aranga School Kai Iwi lakes WBC May 1112Aranga School took part in the Whitebait Connection programme in Term Two of 2011 with coordinators Kim Jones and Ting Yiu. They learnt heaps and had an awesome day out at the Kai Iwi lakes testing water quality and snorkeling!

Check out the photo album here.