FUTURE PROJECTS

Projects that TRMU are in the process of instigating

NATIVE TREE PROPOGATION

Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKHMG) is a subsidiary of Environs (Te Uri O Hau Iwi) who recently held a bui regarding native tree propogation and contracts IKHMG have with Auckland Council to replant the new motorway between Puhoi and Warkworth. TRMU will be working with IKHMGto support our initiative to enable Marae to start up a native tree nurseries on marae reservations. This project hopes to create employment and follows the Government's Billion Trees initiative set down in 2017. The ongoing benefits and income will empower tangata whenua and marae.

POSSUM PURGE

In association with IKHMG TRMU have been in discussions with an initiative to purge possums from the Tinopai Peninsula in the hope that we can chase them back to the quarry. It is possible then to have a pest control fence to keep the possums and other vermin at bay on the Tinopai Peninsula.

WAIPUNA RESERVE

Tinopai Resource Management Unit plan to start a pest and weed control programme in Waipuna Reserve, Te Kaokao which is owned by Kaipara District Council. It had an ecological assessment in 2008 and was identified as being an ideal source of flora and fauna for the regeneration of surrounding wetlands. This year has seen a Mega Mast Year for Vermin:

"2019 is what we are calling a mega mast year which means our native trees are fruiting really heavily and normally that would have fed our bird population, but these days it's feeding rats instead," [DOC] explained. The pest and weed maintenance program will be funded by KDC, NRC and other charitable avenues.