by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | events, Latest, News
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...
by admin | Jul 28, 2023 | education, News
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...
by admin | May 26, 2023 | events, Latest, News
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...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | events, Uncategorized
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....
by admin | May 10, 2023 | events, Latest
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...
by admin | Apr 6, 2023 | events, Latest, News
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...
by admin | Feb 10, 2023 | events, News
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...
by admin | Jan 6, 2023 | bird stories, Latest
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...
by admin | Jan 6, 2023 | News
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...
by admin | Nov 16, 2022 | events, Latest
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...
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