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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...
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Apr 6, 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...
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Mar 7, 20233 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...
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Nov 14, 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...
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Nov 8, 20222 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...
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Nov 8, 20221 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...
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Nov 3, 20224 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...
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Nov 3, 20221 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...
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Nov 3, 20223 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...
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Oct 18, 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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Sep 21, 20221 min read


Te Wānanga Whakamātaki the Māori Biosecurity wānanga
Tū Mai Taonga Project Lead, Makere Jenner, recently attended Te Wānanga Whakamātaki - Māori Biosecurity wānanga, hosted by Te Tira...
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Aug 18, 20221 min read


July 2022 Newsletter
Tena koutou katoa, We are currently laying the groundwork so that operations can begin this winter. In April we sought expressions of...
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Jul 27, 20223 min read


April 2022 Newsletter
Tena koutou katoa, I’m excited to take the helm of the Tū Mai Taonga project at this critical stage. We have completed a transition from...
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Jul 27, 20222 min read


Minister of Conservation announces extra funding for island conservation project
Caption: Tū Mai Taonga Acting Project Lead Makere Jenner and Opo Ngawaka, Chair of the Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea Trust, with...
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May 11, 20221 min read


Taking Responsibility and Living as Part of Nature: Opo Ngawaka on the Tū Mai Taonga Project.
Opo and Elaine Ngawaka live among the largest tākapu or gannet colony in the Hauraki Gulf. The home is nestled above a hidden cove on...
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Mar 19, 20223 min read


The Tū Mai Taonga Project is seeking expressions of interest for field work in northern Aotea - GBI
The Tū Mai Taonga project is seeking expressions of interest from contracting companies for the provision of labour for field work in the...
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Mar 19, 20223 min read


Important Milestone for Tū Mai Taonga with First Steering Committee Meeting
The Tū Mai Taonga Steering Committee met on January 26th for its first meeting since the project transferred to the leadership of the...
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Feb 15, 20222 min read


We Need to Talk About Cats - RNZ
Radio New Zealand’s Sharon Brett-Kelly talks to Judy Gilbert and about the Tū Mai Taonga Project in her podcast “We need to talk about...

Makere Jenner
Feb 11, 20221 min read


Island Stories: Moving the Middle Ground
From the deck of the Aotea Track’s Mt Heale (Matāwhero) Hut the vista at twilight is awe-inspiring. It faces west towards Te...
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Jan 6, 20223 min read


Tū Mai Taonga Project Under New Leadership
Conservation efforts on Aotea Great Barrier have been strengthened by a new Memorandum of Understanding between the Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai...
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Dec 11, 20212 min read
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