...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!

by admin | April 11, 2022 | events, Latest | 0 Comments

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...

Sunday Working Bees

by admin | April 4, 2022 | events, Latest, News | 0 Comments

We're back to "normal" - and are happy to invite everyone back to our Matuku Link Working Bees. For H&S reasons, 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...

Postponement of Open Day

by admin | January 26, 2022 | Latest, News, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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.

World Wetland Open Day

by admin | December 11, 2021 | Latest | 0 Comments

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

by admin | December 11, 2021 | Latest, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...

Art for Christmas

by admin | November 12, 2021 | Latest, News | 0 Comments

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...

Goodbye Geoff

by admin | October 21, 2021 | Latest, News | 0 Comments

10 years after Geoff Davidson and John Staniland surveyed the property at 111 Bethells Road to see if it could be suitable for purchase, the Matuku Reserve Trust Board bought it to become Matuku Link. Fast forward another five years and Geoff Davidson is standing down...

First plague, then flood

by admin | September 24, 2021 | Latest, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Some of you might remember our Open Day on 4th of February 2018 for World Wetland Day. We had a good time, but not many visitors, even though the weather was okay. Until we packed up at 3pm and it started to hose down... as it had been doing for all of the day closer...

Monthly Bees

by admin | August 18, 2021 | Latest | 0 Comments

Every Third Sunday of the month we have our group working bee - if we're not in lockdown. In summer we focus on taking care of our plants ("search and rescue") and in winter on planting. And there is always our nursery! All our working bees are accessible for all...

Hands-on volunteering

Our regular working bees are every Third Sunday of the month and every Tuesday morning. Depending on the weather, tasks will be around weeding, planting, growing plants in the nursery, doing predator control or building work. More info here.

Please contact Annalily on matukulink@gmail.com with questions, or if you’d like to join us and it’s your first time out to Matuku Link. We’d love to welcome you here!

Helping out in other ways

Nothing is possible without our valued funders, donors and supporters. Matuku Reserve Trust is a charitable trust so any donation over $5 is tax deductible. Please consider becoming a supporter, more info here.

Thank you to our many generous sponsors and individuals who have helped us with in-kind or financial contributions!

Current Campaigns

OK Boomer!

by admin | June 24, 2021 | bird stories, Campaigns | 0 Comments

The Matuku isn't our namesake for nothing, it is a very special bird. They are cryptic birds so we need to know more about them. Developing a database of where they were heard will increase awareness of matuku presence generally and add to knowledge of their site...

Sound counts

Feb 28, 2022

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

Feb 15, 2022

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

Jan 26, 2022

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Partners

The success of Matuku Link would not be possible without the support of people, businesses and organisations who have given generously of time, money and materials.

Alsco, Auckland Airport Staff Giving, Deloittes, Hybrid Residential, Lion/Speights, Medical Assurance Society, Paradigm Associates, PlaceMakers Cook Street, Ricoh, Resene Paints, WashTech, CairnsSlane, FultonHogan, The Royal College of General Practitioners, Auckland University Event Services, Babich Wines, Wineries Out West and many private philanthropists who have been incredibly generous.

And all groups and individuals who donated their time by helping us out with weeding, planting, potting up plants, building, painting, cooking and everything else!

Auckland Council

The RENH fund supported the materials for our sheds and barn, and the current Community Coordinator Fund will support our part-time educator.

Sustainable Business Network

The Covid Relief fund Jobs4Nature provides SBN with the funds for several organisations to employ people in their “Partnering2Plant” programme. With this funding, we have been able to provide jobs for 9 different since October 2020 over 3 fte’s.

Keep Kauri Standing

To protect our kauri we received funding for boot cleaning stations and education: signage and educator time.

Department of Conservation

In October 2020 we were able to pay our first project manager, supported by the DOC Community Fund, part time for one year. This enabled us to do even more work with even more volunteers!

Mazda Foundation

The irrigation system at the nursery is now running on solar power, and we’re now the proud owners of two FoxPros to monitor our wetland birds by playback – thanks to two grants from the Mazda Foundation.

Million Metres Project

We’ve run three very successful campaigns with Million Metres (part of SBN) to raise funds for our plants to revegetate the Matuku Link wetland.

Perpetual Guradian

This grant will help us improve protection in the wetland with more traps and see how we are doing with more monitoring.

Waitakere Ranges Local Board

Every year our local board grants us funding for parts of our project: potting mix for the nursery, some materials for our education centre, traps or educational materials.

Million Dollar Mission

Just after buying the property, the opportunity came up to fundraise to restore our old, well ventilated barn into a wetland education centre: every vote gave us $5 towards our aim, which in total raised an amazing $85,000!

Native Forest Restoration Trust

This charity made the initial acquisition of the land possible with an incredible $450,000 donation.

Nature Heritage Fund

This DOC fund donated $300,000 towards buying the land in 2016

Forest and Bird Waitakere

The local branch of the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society gave a donation towards buying the land and a number of long term Forest & Bird members are trustees and volunteers.

Waitakere Ranges Protection Society

WRPS has contributed from their own funds towards the acquisition of the land to by Matuku Link.

Ducks Unlimited

Ducks Unlimited is an American nonprofit organization 501 dedicated to the conservation of wetlands and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, other wildlife, and people.

Auckland Zoo

Contributing staff time and expertise, from monitoring to drone surveys as well as funding towards predator control, Auckland Zoo is a valuable partner in our project.

World Wildlife Fund

When we were just setting up our nursery, WWF helped us to pay for the tank to supply our irrigation system.

The Trust Community Foundation

Our barn got a large upgrade with a new roof and a sustainable, high quality wastewater treatment system through generous funding from TTCF.

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