World Wetland Day 2025

World Wetland Day 2025

Celebrate World Wetland Day with us at Matuku Link!📅 Saturday, 1st February 2025 | 10am – 3pm Join us at Auckland’s largest mainland wetland for a day of nature, learning, and fun! We’re celebrating World Wetland Day with our annual open day, featuring a wide...
Great Matuku Muster 2024

Great Matuku Muster 2024

The actual idea for the Great Matuku Muster – bittern survey 2024 started more than a decade ago with John Sumich dreaming up a drone with a heat detection camera and another drone with a regular camera to spot bittern from the air. He worked with Peter Solaris...
Spring and Summer Sundays

Spring and Summer Sundays

We might still pop a few plants in the ground for some infill planting in spring, however most of our work this spring and summer will be caring for the trees we’ve planted earlier. We’d love you to join us at 111 Bethells Road. We do still recommend...
Winter Sundays

Winter Sundays

It’s planting season again! We’d love you to join us at 111 Bethells Road to plant some new trees and care for the ones we’ve planted earlier. We do recommend gumboots – a bit of splashing around in the mud makes it even more fun! For H&S...
Kayak Day Success

Kayak Day Success

Every year the VIP Kayak Day is different, we’ve had super hot summer days when most guest went for a voluntary dip in the clear Waitakere river, a lockdowns postponed day, last year a post-cyclone silted river adventure. Because of the latter, this year we...
What a pARTy!

What a pARTy!

Our 2023 anniversary party turned into a three-day pARTy, thanks to Derek March’s ‘takeover’ of our barn and education center as part of the Waitakere Open Studios. Professional artist and conservationist Derek March has been a volunteer with...