For all enquiries concerning the environment in the rohe of Tapuika, including consenting queries, please email taiao@tapuika.iwi.nz.
Te Maru o Kaituna River Authority is a co-governance partnership made up of iwi representatives from Tapuika Iwi Authority Trust, Te Kapu Ō Waitaha, Te Pumautanga o Te Arawa Trust, Te Tāhuhu o Tawakeheimoa Trust, Ngāti Whakaue, and council representatives from the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana, Rotorua Lakes Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council and Tauranga City Council. It is a permanent joint committee of the four councils.
The purpose of Te Maru o Kaituna is the restoration, protection, and enhancement of the environmental, cultural and spiritual health and well-being of the Kaituna River.
For more information, visit the Te Maru o Kaituna website.
Tapuika was pleased to partner with Quayside Holdings to complete this planting project over 2024 and 2025, and to strengthen the relationship between Tapuika Iwi Authority and Quayside. Over 360,000 plants were planted to revitalise and restore this ancestral kūkūwai (wetland). You can read more about this mahi here.
We would like to acknowledge and extend our huge appreciation to everyone involved. The hard work, dedication, time and collective effort have contributed greatly to the restoration and enhancement of this important ecological area, strengthening health and resilience, improving water quality, supporting biodiversity creating habitats for our taonga species and ensuring future generations can enjoy a thriving wetland.
“He peka tangata, apa he peka rākau.” Unlike a branch of a tree, a person’s influence continues long after they are gone.
Te Wao Nui o Tapuika are part of the 'Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project' that is led by Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust.
Te Wao Nui o Tapuika aspire to restore the relict population of kōkako within Te Takapū o Tapuika, the belly of Tapuika. Their goal is intergenerational, to ensure Tapuika uri (descendants) are continuously practicing, protecting and enhancing all land, water, air, sea and natural taonga within their sacred whenua.
Tapuika’s field team are effectively managing 708-hectares of best-practice predator control infrastructure (a mixture of bait stations and traps) in whenua that connects vital kōkako ecological habitats between Ōtanewainuku and Kaharoa.
Using best practice techniques, Tapuika undertake ground-based pest control, targeting possums, feral cats and mustelids to levels that allow biodiversity values to increase.
708-hectares of strategically placed pest control infrastructure within Te Mataī Forest
Office:
Suite 1, Level 1, 46 Jellicoe St, Te Puke
PO Box 15, Te Puke 3153
Contact:
07 573 5351
info@tapuika.iwi.nz