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NZ Police praise Tū Mai Taonga team for search and rescue
The New Zealand Police have commended the Tū Mai Taonga team for assisting them in a search and rescue for a young child lost on Aotea,...
michelle54806
Jan 92 min read
Foundation North announces $2.6M grant to Tū Mai Taonga
Tū Mai Taonga, a Māori-led conservation project on Aotea, Great Barrier Island, has been awarded funding from the community trust...
michelle34089
Jul 15, 20241 min read
Tū Mai Taonga 2023 Impact Report
The Tū Mai Taonga project recently published it’s 2023 Impact Report report for the June AGM of the Ngāti Rehua Ngāti Wai Ki Aotea Trust....
michelle34089
Jul 5, 20241 min read
Tū Mai Taonga delivers impact
"The best Christmas present I ever had was no rats," says Māhuki resident Elaine Ngawaka. "None in the house, no smell of rat poo...
it8902
Dec 15, 20231 min read
Tū Mai Taonga at the Ecology Vision Festival 2023
Tū Mai Taonga's Wahi Tapu Advisor, Hiku Davis, and Communications Manager, Tim Higham discussed working with a sense of the past at the...
it8902
Dec 11, 20231 min read
Driving towards success
Tū Mai Taonga now has several newly licensed drivers on the team after sending an 11-person contingent to Pukekohe for Driving Boot Camp....
it8902
Nov 7, 20231 min read
Presentation to Auckland Council's Planning, Environment, and Parks Committee
Tū Mai Taonga Steering Committee member Izzy Fordham and Project Lead Makere Jenner gave a presentation to Auckland Council's Planning,...
it8902
Aug 29, 20233 min read
Island Stories: Tū Mai Taonga project taking shape and in great heart
The Tū Mai Taonga project has begun operations in the north of the island with around 30 staff now employed to find new ways to rid the...
it8902
May 19, 20231 min read
An Unlikely Bushman
Lindsey Davies is an unlikely bushman. He moved to the island eight months ago to stay with his grandfather Sydney Davies. “I grew up in...
it8902
May 11, 20231 min read
Tū Mai Taonga recently featured in two podcasts on Radio New Zealand.
The Detail’s Sharon Brettkelly joined Project Lead Makere Jenner on a walk up Hirakimatā and to meet seabird ecologist and island...
it8902
Apr 6, 20233 min read
Billy Wii: Passing things on
In 1972 when the track from Mabey Road to Tataweka was put in Billy Wii watched his Uncle Sonny and Uncle Jim on their bulldozers. “I’d...
it8902
Mar 7, 20233 min read
Hiku Davis: Working with a sense of the past
Hiku Davis’s family has gone by different names – Snowdon, Davis, Davies, and Rewiti. They reflect a mixing of bloods and fortune since...
it8902
Nov 14, 20222 min read
Te Papa Atawhai and Tū Mai Taonga sign agreements
Tū Mai Taonga Project Steering Committee Chair Opo Ngawaka and DOC Aotea Operations Manager Kirsty Prior signing community agreements on...
it8902
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Bird Count shows importance of Tū Mai Taonga work
Analysis of the island-wide Aotea Bird Count carried out every year on the first weekend in December highlights the importance of...
it8902
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Tū Mai Taonga at Pestival
The Pestival is an annual event hosted by the Great Barrier Island Environmental Trust. It brings together the many conservation projects...
it8902
Nov 3, 20224 min read
Wild at heart
Thirty years ago Marilyn Stephens lay on a mattress in the whare at Motairehe marae watching pāteke come up from the creek and cross the...
it8902
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Tū Mai Taonga workers receive mana whenua blessing
A Pōwhiri at Kawa Marae and a Karanga at the start of the Burrill Route on Monday morning have enabled field workers for the Tū Mai...
it8902
Nov 3, 20223 min read
Q&A with Tū Mai Taonga's Operations Manager Chris Giblin
What brought you to Aotea? Sarah and I moved to Aotea from the Chatham Islands back in 2017 to take up a role as operation managers of...
it8902
Oct 18, 20221 min read
Tū Mai Taonga looks to bring workers home
The Tū Mai Taonga project is hosting a recruitment workshop in Auckland next month to assist Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea whānau who are...
it8902
Sep 21, 20221 min read
Getting started at Tū Mai Taonga
This week, the first recruits to Tū Mai Taonga began orientation and training from the project’s base at Akapoua. William West, Jordan...
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