MAHI TAIAO

Ngaati Koroki Kahukura iwi committed to growing and restoring lands and wai

COMMITTED TO GROWING AND RESTORING LANDS AND WAI FOR OUR OWN KAI, FOR OUR OWN KAUPAPA, AND PEOPLE

Mahia te mahi hei painga moo te iwi

Our Kaitiaki provide land-based practical support and site maintenance across dedicated diversification and alternative land use areas directed by MDLP, Ngaati Koroki Kahukura.

Sustainable Growth and opportunity for kaitiaki and Researchers

Kaitiaki Responsibilities

As whaanau and iwi we have a responsibility to uphold kaitiakitanga practices for future generations, we also see this as an instrumental practice informing the dissemination activities. For example, waananga as a leading method and outcome provides a unique opportunity to share knowledge and to disseminate in practice that knowledge and findings. A set of illustrations and story work in publication form will showcase the growing capacity being built and engage our younger voices and minds in our mana whenua, mana wai kaitiakitanga approaches.

Mai i te maunga ki te awa

Kaitiaki Goals

  • To Continue to enact our kaitiakitanga responsibilities.
  • Develop skills, experience and understandings through both scientific measures and Ngaati Koroki Kahukura worldviews.
  • Provide approaches that support enduring partnerships.
  • Demonstrate capacity and growth in restoration expertise and science knowledge within the iwi and whaanau.
  • Sustain healthy and thriving tuna, freshwater koura, puna and wetland environments.
  • Recording the views of Ngaati Koroki Kahukura people on eeling including the different types of catching.
  • Transferring elvers from the Karaapiro dam to key locations.
  • Identification and, where necessary, building restoration ponds.

The first Koohanga Kiwi release from Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari to Tongariro

Planting the seeds for Ngaati Koroki Kahukura whaanau