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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 range of...

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Donate to educate

Donate to educate

Our Wetland Education Programme for local low decile primary schools, is a huge success with over 1500 children a year visiting Matuku Link. Our incredible educators teach them to love wetlands and appreciate the bush, nature and the natural environment while doing a...

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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 from...

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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 gumboots - it's...

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Tracking at Matuku Link

Tracking at Matuku Link

Last week, I had the exhilarating opportunity to join Tarn from Auckland Zoo's conservation team on an adventure off the beaten track right here at Matuku Link. Auckland Zoo's Siân has been helping us collect data from our tracking tunnels since Matuku Link first...

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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 reasons: if you haven’t...

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Wetland Nightlife: Insects and Arachnids

Wetland Nightlife: Insects and Arachnids

Tonight we are hosting a "Bug Hunt" at Matuku Link. Along with expert entomologists and visitors, we'll be searching the wetlands for many legged critters and trying to identify them. Over the last week, we've let te aitanga pepeke (the insect world, including...

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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 launched...

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People power

People power

We'd love to see you here at Matuku Link for our volunteer sessions - every Tuesday and every Third Sunday of the month - except when it is a Statutory Holiday or a weather warning is in place - info for 2024: The Tuesday Team - weekly around 15 people work hard from...

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World Wetland Day 2024

World Wetland Day 2024

Celebrate World Wetland Day with us at Matuku Link! Saturday 3rd February 2024 10am - 3pm Celebrate World Wetland Day this year by visiting Auckland’s largest mainland wetland! Matuku Link is holding our annual open day and wetland celebration on the 3rd of February...

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Santa’s elves

Santa’s elves

Santa isn't the only one who has helpers! We have many... last week we had our first volunteer sewing session to make beautiful, sustainable, cutlery bags from donated pieces of fabric, filled with recycled cutlery - a fork, spoon, knife and straw ready for your next...

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Matuku moana

Matuku moana

Many of our volunteers are not just "ours" - they volunteer at other projects as well - Mototapu, Oakley Creek, Orangihina, Ark in the Park - to name just a few! And some volunteer at Birdcare Aotearoa, which is the only place in Auckland where you can drop off an...

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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 Waitakere Rivercare,...

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Education highlights

Education highlights

This year, we have welcomed almost 1,000 students to Matuku Link for our school education days. We have had the privilege of educating and connecting with not only these students, but also the teachers and whanau members. Our education days are always exciting, with...

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Henderson North visit

Henderson North visit

The deputy principal of our local Henderson North school brought a group of his teaching team out to Matuku Link. They were impressed with what we could offer and we were impressed by their enthousiasm. Together we wrote a funding application for WeSteam funding...

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School Holiday Success

School Holiday Success

When we started the Matuku Link school holiday program, we didn't think it would be so successful so quickly: last week's series was fully booked almost every day, with most of the children wanting to return the next day... because what's not do love: making friends...

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Search and rescue Sundays

Search and rescue Sundays

It's weeding season again! We'd love you to join us at 111 Bethells Road to care for the trees we all planted earlier. We call this "Search & Rescue": search for the white tipped bamboo stick and rescue the plant by cutting away all the weeds that are threatening...

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PR for pūweto

PR for pūweto

Ever seen a pūweto, a spotless crake? Possibly not... but you can, soon, albeit digitally. Matuku Link will be featuring in the next episode of Wild Heroes, the Auckland Zoo series on the work their staff do outside the zoo. Zoo staff have been helping Matuku Link...

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Open Studio

Open Studio

The wetland restoration project Matuku Link was an out door studio for professional artist and Matuku Link volunteer Derek March for five months. From February to June 2023 he designed, then painted a mural on a 35 meter long fence separating the wetland education...

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Donated jackets

Donated jackets

Thanks to the networking skills of our volunteer Rebecca, young students who forgot their jackets will now stay dry during our Wetland Education Program. And with the weather we had, that is definitely a bonus! Rebecca approached her friend at Barfoot & Thompson...

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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 the mud makes it even...

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Contact us:

Secretary Annalily van den Broeke

022 692 2016 or email us at hello@matukulink.org.nz

Physical address:

111 Bethells Road, Te Henga, Auckland

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