From the Blog:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seeds away!
Seeds away! One of our nursery volunteers loves to grow plants and was wondering how to regrow the native plants and trees on the many slips in the Waitakere River valley. Usually those barren sites get colonized by weeds before the native trees can take hold....
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
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 activities...
Bug hunt with experts!
Evening Entomology Excursion - A Bug Hunt! Saturday 18 March, 7pm-10pm, $5 - booking required: www.matukulink.org.nz/shop/product/bughunt What bugs hide in our bush? Professional entomologists from Auckland Museum and Auckland University will help you identify as many...
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 they are a...
Jobs4Nature
It was the silver lining to the covid cloud: receiving Jobs4Nature funding to be able to employ people to help us at Matuku Link. From November 2020 to December 2022 we have had Nic, Christine, Stephen, Stephanie, Gillian, Devon, Jeff, Denis and myself employed for...
Summer Search and Rescue
No swimming skills required for our Search and Rescue missions! And just gumboots for our planting days... We're are asking you to help us find our plants, identified by a white stick in a sea of weeds. And then use a shark (flax knife) to release them from being...
First Walk and Wheel!
What a day... a bright summer day in Spring, with all of our funders, friends, supporters, volunteers to celebrate the opening of our accessible bridge and walkway, by our very own Minister of Conservation and Disability Issues Poto Williams! Trustee John Staniland...
Bridge Opening by Minister
Auckland’s first accessible wetland - the doctor, the duck and the walkway Minister of Conservation and Disability Issues Poto Williams is perfectly placed to be opening the first accessible wetland boardwalk in Auckland’s largest wetland, built by Jobs4Nature, on...
Holiday Program!
Do you love the outdoors? Have you always wanted to spend a day discovering everything a wetland has to offer? Matuku Link is excited to invite children aged 7-12 to our inaugural Holiday Programme Day on the 12th October! You will have a great time exploring and...
Holiday Programme
Do you love the outdoors? Have you always wanted to spend a day discovering everything a wetland has to offer? Matuku Link is excited to invite children aged 7-13 to our Holiday Programme in January! You will have a great time exploring and learning from the wetland...
No bridge too far
Many years ago John Sumich needed to cross over the Waitakere River to release the first batch of 20 pateke (brown teal) in the Te Henga wetland. He asked Fulton Hogan in Ranui if they might have a bridge, and they did: a 71 meter long one! John politely declined and...
Bird banding
Under the expert guidance of Stephen Davies and James Russell, a number of us have been getting up really early to learn how to "band birds". This involves catching the birds in mist nets and gently giving them a tiny metal bracelet around their leg. The bird is...
Birthday, Bridge, Birds, Beer
Join us for our Birthday Bash! Our fifth anniversary was just after last year's longest lockdown, so we had to skip it... a great reason to do a much bigger party this sixth year. There is also much more to celebrate: our accessible walkway, our education program,...
Fundraising Film
Has it been six years already? Yes it has! Four trustees bought Matuku Link in November 2016 and we've been fundraising ever since... this time we hope to welcome you at our Fundraising Film Night - the incredible documentary on New Zealand wetlands "Rohe Kōreporepo -...
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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