2021 Planting Bees

2021 Planting Bees

Our nursery is overflowing with plants grown by all our volunteers and now we’re getting into the wetter season, we’re ready to do some planting!!! All our working bees are accessible for all ages, we can always find something appropriate for your age and...
Drone survey

Drone survey

Thanks to the team at Auckland Zoo, we now have some great drone footage of the willows in the river and our wetland. This does not only guide us to where they are so we can get rid of them (as willows are a pest plant, a weed smothering our native plants and clogging...
Success with pests

Success with pests

The three aims of Matuku Link are protect, enhance and educate. The first protection part is all about pest animal and pest plant control. Pest animals we focus on are rats, possums and stoats as the main predators, with hedgehogs, feral cats, ferrets and weasels as...
Summer Working Bees

Summer Working Bees

Welcome back! We’re very happy we can invite you to Matuku Link again, after a very ‘different’ year… We’ve got loads of seeds to plant, trees to pot up, weeds to keep from smothering our natives… plus lots to experience and admire:...
Cake for crake

Cake for crake

Last week we did our annual puweto (spotless crake) survey, organised by John Sumich with support from Auckland Zoo (specifically Derryn, Sarah and Suzie). Over two very early mornings, they and the rest of the team (Anko, Emma, Stefan, Marjolijn, Wayne, Matt and...