Winter planting days

Winter planting days

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. With the wettest summer and autumn on record, we do recommend gumboots – a bit of splashing around in...
Education and inspiration

Education and inspiration

Of course our main aims at Matuku Link are protection of all our native flora and fauna, through best practice pest control (thank you trappers, baiters, weeders and sprayers!) and restoration of our wetland with our eco-sourced plants grown in our nursery (thank you...
The Tuesday Team

The Tuesday Team

If you’ve got some time on Tuesday mornings, are interested in helping out and love good company and home baking, join our Tuesday Team! What started with a couple of people looking after the plants in our on-site nursery has evolved into several different...
Kayak Adventure

Kayak Adventure

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 chilly day in October, postponed by covid from March, and this year a post-cyclone silted river adventure. Three...
2022 in pictures

2022 in pictures

2022 was the biggest year for us yet… with the Jobs4Nature funding we employed at one point seven people! Add that to all the work done by our volunteers and you can imagine a lot happened last year. The pictures below don’t do it justice at all, however...
Cancelled Wetland Festival

Cancelled Wetland Festival

I’m writing this with the sound of large helicopters evacuating people from Muriwai, and in the knowledge half of our Te Henga community residents don’t have power, internet or water – hang in there, our thoughts are with you! Here at Matuku Link our little wetland...