Latest Updates
Welcome Leah!
Kia ora! I'm Leah Nielsen and I'm excited to be joining Matuku Link as the new educator. I come from a teaching background, having taught primary school in both New Zealand and the UK, but my passion is the environment and wildlife. I love learning about the natural...
Secrets of our streams
Secrets of our streams Aquatic species largely go unseen in our streams and wetlands. Many of them have fascinating life cycles linked to the moon and tides. At Matuku Link we have been surveying our waterways to discover which species are currently found here, and...
Education initiation
A great team of students from Kelston Intermediate came out to Matuku Link to experience our very first Wetland Education Program session - Te kaupapa rohe koreporepo. This all boys team lead by kaiako John and his colleagues were super engaged with all we shared with...
Many hands plant a lot!
If it was the tiny bit of desperation that shone through my call for planters last Sunday, or the fact it was a sunny day after two weeks of rain, if it was the School Holidays or if it is the yummy food shared... whatever the reason, we had a HUGE team of helpers to...
Wetland Book Launch
Waitakere Book Launch of Life in the Shallows - by the National Wetland Trust of New Zealand ceo Karen Denyer on Sunday 24th of July at 10 am. Hot drinks and nibbles will await our guests, before Karen will start her talk about the people, the work and the...
Driving Piles
Spiral Drilling Civic not only donated the HUGE piles that are needed to support the bridge on the north side of the river, they also supplied the machinery which came on a HUGE truck and most importantly the experts who knew how to ram those piles exactly where the...
Job vacancy
Job Description – LEAD EDUCATOR at Matuku Link – apply now! Matuku Link is a 37 hectare bush and wetland area in Te Henga (Bethells), West Auckland. The land has been bought by the Matuku Reserve Trust in November 2016 after a seven-month period of intense...
Mazda support
Matuku Link is a wetland conservation, protection, and education project in the Waitakere River Valley, located in Auckland largest wetland, Te Henga. The program has a strong focus on environmental science and acknowledgement of mātauranga Māori. It received a grant...
Nursery Tuesdays
Welcome to our Nursery Tuesdays - our weekly session at Matuku Link for people who love plants. If you haven't been before, please REGISTER here. no need to bring your own gloves and spades, but if you do: everything needs to be squeaky clean because of kauri dieback...
Banded Rail release
OFF THE RAILS And yes they were off but not as fast as you might have thought. Last week three moho peruru [banded rails] were released at Matuku Link having been raised as day-olds by BirdCare Aotearoa. Two brought into a house by the family cat, and the other...
One bird in the hand
...is another bird with a band! Stephen Davies, experienced and knowledgeable bird bander, decided Matuku Link would be a good place to band birds for several reasons: it is a easy to access which makes it less time consuming setting up and taking down the mist nets,...
Super Successful Kayak Day!
Another sold out VIP Kayak Day! A huge success, with more than 80 people enjoying the wetland from a different perspective, having access through private properties otherwise not accessible. Some saw matuku (bittern) which was definitely a highlight, others saw...
Planting Sundays
Our nursery is overflowing so we're planting big time! And we can really use your help, at our Monthly Matuku Link Working Bees. For H&S reasons: if you haven't been before, please REGISTER here. If you've been before - check out the growth and be proud! All ages...
Sound counts
It's not about the number of pests you remove from the environment, it is how well the native flora and fauna is recovering. And that can be quite hard to monitor! Apart from anecdotal reports from locals that they see more birds (which is great!) or have seen a...
Ongoing predator control
The "protection" part of our three pronged strategy - protection, restoration and education - is our ongoing pest control regime run by volunteers. It consists of traps (checked fortnightly) and bait stations (on a 100 m x 50 meter grid) with PestOff (rat and possum...
Postponement of Open Day
Unfortunately we've decided to postpone our World Wetland Open Day until we can celebrate it with the whole community... let's hope that day will come soon! We'll keep you posted, subscribe to our newsletter if you'd like to hear the latest.
OK for GK?
At 32mm the little galaxiid is just beyond the whitebait stage. Its presence though, 600m up from the Waitakere River past the multiple cascades and waterfalls of a rock bottomed, forest-shaded stream at Matuku Link, shows the determination and climbing ability of...
World Wetland Open Day
Postponed! Due to the RED setting we unfortunately had to make the hard call to postpone this event to a later date - when we hope to be able to invite everyone! Usually visits to Matuku Link are by appointment only, for working bees, events or education. But now our...
Welcome Hohepa
We're super stoked to have Hohepa join our team as lead educator to teach our tamariki in our first ever official Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) programme. I'll let him introduce himself: "Kia Ora koutou katoa, ko Hohepa Waenga toku ingoa, nō Te Tairāwhiti...
Working Bees are Back!
Welcome back! Were very happy we can invite you to Matuku Link again!!! To keep everyone safe, we will ask to see your vaccine passport next time you come though. If you haven't been before, please REGISTER here. Rest is same as pre-lockdown: no need to bring your own...
Art for Christmas
A wonderful wetland present Of course we said “yes” when local artist Celia Steenhuisen approached us with the offer to create unique artworks for us based on photographs by supporter Imogen Warren and our very own volunteer Stefan Marks – and we are over the moon...
Contact us:
Secretary Annalily van den Broeke
021-2207136 or email us at hello@matukulink.org.nz
Physical address:
111 Bethells Road, Te Henga, Auckland
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