by admin | Apr 14, 2021 | News
Thanks to the team at Auckland Zoo, we now have some great drone footage of the willows in the river and our wetland. This does not only guide us to where they are so we can get rid of them (as willows are a pest plant, a weed smothering our native plants and clogging...
by admin | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
The three aims of Matuku Link are protect, enhance and educate. The first protection part is all about pest animal and pest plant control. Pest animals we focus on are rats, possums and stoats as the main predators, with hedgehogs, feral cats, ferrets and weasels as...
by admin | Jan 18, 2021 | News, Uncategorized
Welcome back! We’re very happy we can invite you to Matuku Link again, after a very ‘different’ year… We’ve got loads of seeds to plant, trees to pot up, weeds to keep from smothering our natives… plus lots to experience and admire:...
by admin | Nov 30, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Last week we did our annual puweto (spotless crake) survey, organised by John Sumich with support from Auckland Zoo (specifically Derryn, Sarah and Suzie). Over two very early mornings, they and the rest of the team (Anko, Emma, Stefan, Marjolijn, Wayne, Matt and...
by admin | Nov 29, 2020 | News
Vicki had a great love for the environment – but an even greater heart for people. We will miss her, and her enthusiasm for Ark in the Park, Matuku Link and most recently her energy as founder of the very successful South Titirangi Neighbourhood Network. She...
by admin | Nov 24, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
In our five year plan we always had the aspiration to have a project manager or coordinator to help with funding applications, volunteer days, predator control, communications, visiting groups and all the other everyday jobs which require a bit more time than the...
by admin | Oct 14, 2020 | groups, News
The first and last business planting group of 2020 – thanks to Covid we have had to cancel everyone else. But the team from Lion worked tremendously hard on their volunteer day to make up for that and planted hundreds of trees, shrubs and flaxes. It was right...
by admin | Oct 12, 2020 | News
What a great day to plant a 50th Forest for Anko’s birthday! Beautiful weather (though a bit windy, look at my hair!), lovely company, great cakes… and we planted our 100 trees as well as some extra flaxes and grasses! Thank you to everyone, from all over...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
What a great turnout to enjoy our very sunny working bee in September! We had one group of volunteers in the nursery, one group protecting our plants with a thick layer of mulch, and another group busy with ‘infill’ planting: adding bigger trees where the...
by admin | Sep 15, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Jobs for Nature are established by the government, through the Department of Conservation, to help the environment as well as help people in a job who are currently unemployed or underemployed. Matuku Link’s proposal was part of the Sustainable Business Network...
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