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...

Hiku Davis’s family has gone by different names – Snowdon, Davis, Davies, and Rewiti. They reflect a mixing of bloods and fortune since...

Tū Mai Taonga Project Steering Committee Chair Opo Ngawaka and DOC Aotea Operations Manager Kirsty Prior signing community agreements on...

Analysis of the island-wide Aotea Bird Count carried out every year on the first weekend in December highlights the importance of...

The Pestival is an annual event hosted by the Great Barrier Island Environmental Trust. It brings together the many conservation projects...

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...

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...

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...

The Tū Mai Taonga project is hosting a recruitment workshop in Auckland next month to assist Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea whānau who are...

This week, the first recruits to Tū Mai Taonga began orientation and training from the project’s base at Akapoua. William West, Jordan...

Tū Mai Taonga Project Lead, Makere Jenner, recently attended Te Wānanga Whakamātaki - Māori Biosecurity wānanga, hosted by Te Tira...

Tena koutou katoa, We are currently laying the groundwork so that operations can begin this winter. In April we sought expressions of...

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...

Caption: Tū Mai Taonga Acting Project Lead Makere Jenner and Opo Ngawaka, Chair of the Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea Trust, with...

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...

The Tū Mai Taonga project is seeking expressions of interest from contracting companies for the provision of labour for field work in the...

The Tū Mai Taonga Steering Committee met on January 26th for its first meeting since the project transferred to the leadership of the...

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...

From the deck of the Aotea Track’s Mt Heale (Matāwhero) Hut the vista at twilight is awe-inspiring. It faces west towards Te...

Conservation efforts on Aotea Great Barrier have been strengthened by a new Memorandum of Understanding between the Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai...