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Wairarapa Moana Wetlands project & Opportunities for community - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wairarapa Moana Wetlands project & Opportunities for community - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wairarapa Moana Wetlands project & Opportunities for community involvement Wairarapa Moana Wetlands Project What is it? A collaboration Vision: Restoring our wetland treasure Whakaora te repo, ka ora te taonga Iwi, Papawai
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A collaboration
- Vision: Restoring our wetland
treasure – Whakaora te repo, ka ora te taonga
- Iwi, Papawai and Kohunui
marae,GWRC,DOC, SWDC and the community
- In line with outcomes arising from
Treaty Settlements
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Three workstreams
- Ecological Management
- Interpretation and Visitor facilities
- Advocacy & Community Support
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Ecological Management
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Ecological Management 2016/17 budget $120,000
- Guided by a three- year plan
- Pest plant control (willows and alders)
in eastern shore wetlands
- Pest animal control including mustelids
and cats
- Monitoring bird populations, exotic fish
control trial
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Interpretation and Visitor facilities
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Interpretation and Visitor Facilities 2016/17 budget $61,000
- Guided by a three-year plan
- Improving the visitor experience at key
sites
- Lake Domain – car park, signage,
interpretation
- Boggy Pond/ Wairio – car park,
signage, interpretation
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Advocacy & Community Support
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Advocacy & Community Support 2016/17 budget $41,500
- Guided by a three-year plan
- School programmes
– E.g Whitebait connection
- Public events
– E.g. Kakahi monitoring
- Community Groups
– New funding support programme
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Working with schools
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Public events
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Community Group Support
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