Pānui 6 | Pipiri, June 2025
Grab a kaputī and catch up with what’s been happening in the Kaimai Mamaku.Years of hard work has paid off with two huge announcements, Te Whakamaru o Horohoro secure funding from Lotteries, and we release the outcomes of our Social Impact Survey.But first, our CEO Louise Saunders shares practical steps to help businesses invest safely into conservation and restoration work.Featured image: Te Paiaka block, Te Whakamaru o HorohoroREAD THE FULL PĀNUI NOW...
June 26, 2025In the media: Government funds feral goat eradication
A plan to hire “the snipers of the hunting world” to cull feral goats wreaking “havoc” in the Kaimai Mamaku Conservation Park has been kick-started by a $750,000 grant.The initiative, driven by Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, aims to move from controlling feral goat populations to eradicating them.Trust chief executive Louise Saunders said control was about keeping population numbers low, whereas eradication was about “getting rid of them completely”.Over the past four years, a Joint Ag...
June 26, 2025Report: Conservation mahi improves mental health
Ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata | When the land is well, we are wellKaimai Mamaku Restoration Project kaimahi experience significant positive impacts through their conservation mahi. Overall, kaimahi | workers feel fitter and stronger than before they started, experience better mental health and feel more connected to whenua, whānau, tūpuna and iwi. They strongly believe their mahi is making a positive difference and they’re confident talking about it.The social and cultural impacts of c...
June 25, 2025Partnering for nature: Finding the right investment
By Louise Saunders, Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust CEO...
June 25, 2025Announcement: $750,000 towards feral goat eradication
Feral goat eradication in the Kaimai conservation park is the latest environmental initiative driven by Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, now made possible with funding from the central government.CEO of Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, Louise Saunders, says it's crucial we move from control to eradication.“Feral goats wreak havoc wherever they go. They eat understorey which stops forest regeneration, they have the potential to spread kauri dieback disease and they eat grass at record speeds, severely ...
June 24, 2025Announcement: Biodiversity Credits
The hunting and preying has paid off! We're part of the Ministry for the Environment | Manatū mō te Taiao Biodiversity Credit pilot programme announced by Minister Andrew Hoggard at Fieldays® 2025. The Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project is partnering with Boffa Miskell Limited as a pilot project using an international biodiversity credits platform. Over the coming months, we'll validate the methodology for NZ conditions to produce science-based biodiversity certificates for investors. Ng...
June 17, 2025In the media: BoP businesses asked to foot the bill
[Excerpt from Greg Hurrell, Business Desk]Anyone who has driven from Hamilton to Tauranga, or through the Karangahake Gorge between Paeroa and Waihī, has been through the Kaimāī Range. It forms a barrier between the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions and is a mix of native forest with tramping tracks and huts, pasture land and plantation forest. In recent years, the Manaaki Kaimāī Mamaku trust has received millions of dollars in public funding to restore native forest and manage animal and p...
June 5, 2025Pānui 5 | Haratua, May 2025
Grab a kaputī and learn about what's been happening in the Kaimai Mamaku. This month we launch our donations portal, our CEO co-authors a new report that puts an economic value on the Kaimai Mamaku ecoysystems, and we chat to a feral goat culler.Read the full pānui here. ...
May 27, 2025Partnering for Nature: What's happening in Aotearoa
By Louise Saunders, Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust CEO...
May 27, 2025Feral Goat Hunting in the '90s
All image credits: Steve Lurie, using his Kodak instamatic he would take with him every trip. ...
May 23, 2025Report: The economic value of the Kaimai Mamaku
The economic valuation of services provided by the Kaimai Mamaku (~260,000 hectares) is estimated to be between $568M - $645M per annum, a new analysis by Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust and Waikato Regional Council has found. Building on a 2010 Department of Conservation (DOC) publication that valued the ecosystem services of areas within the Tauranga Harbour catchments, this newly released report estimates the economic value of ecosystem services provided by a ...
May 13, 2025Pānui 4 | Paengawhāwhā, April 2025
Grab a kaputī and learn more about what’s been happening in the Kaimai Mamaku.Ngāti Tumutumu inspires Te Aroha communityOur Environment: Tō Tātou Taiao 2025 is out nowBay Conservation Alliance celebrates their final cohortSustainable Business Network visits the BayWe’re half way through our second round of eDNA testingWe went out in the field with AUT’s Geospatial studentsOtawa Waitaha a Hei project manager Luke Whare is featured in the latest Our Place MagazineOur CEO Louise Saunders ...
April 29, 2025Partnering for nature: Global risks and developments
By Louise Saunders, Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust CEO...
April 29, 2025We Won! Sustainable Futures 2025
The Sustainable Future Award recognises those who have implemented innovative projects or practices that protect and enhance the environment or who have embedded sustainability into the core of their operations. It celebrates forward-thinking initiatives that address climate challenges and contribute to a healthier, more sustainable future for all.We are so honoured to be this years winner. About the awardsThe Western Bay Community Awards bring together all those who are involved ...
April 22, 2025In the media: Nuturing the ngahere
Luke Whareaorere, Otawa Waitaha a Hei project manager, gave up his Gold Coast construction career to come home and help restore the ngahere his tūpuna once traversed.“If our maunga and our awa are dying, our people are dying. The more we look after our ngahere, the healthier our people are," he says.Read the full story here....
April 16, 2025Pānui 3 | Poutū-te-rangi, March 2025
Grab a kaputī and learn more about what’s been happening in the Kaimai Mamaku.This month:We won a Western Bay Community Award!Haere mai, our three new supporters A new digital guided walk in Te Aroha is coming soonNgāti Hako are monitoring rakau rangatiraLouise Saunders, our CEO, is leading an upcoming Priority One eventAnd, a super sneak peak of the upcoming Our Place Magazine feature.Read the full pānui now....
March 25, 2025In the media: $200,000 grant from Waikato Regional Council
We are thrilled to announce we have recently received $200,000 over two years from Waikato Regional Council towards our Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project!The funding will go towards:Labour – allowing our internal staff to support capacity and capability of Waikato iwi and hapū-led projects Health and safety supportData and monitoring platform support.Read the full article here. ...
March 14, 2025Pānui 2 | Huitānguru, February 2025
Click here to subscribe now. --Grab a kaputī and learn more about what’s happening in the Kaimai Mamaku.This month:How climate change affects businessVoting is open for people’s choice awardsWhat feral browsers cost farmersForest health indicatorsWith teary eyes we farewell our project coordinator Dani Guy.But first, some great news - Kiwi in the Kaimai!Read the full pānui now. ...
February 20, 2025In the media: The Devastating Impact of Deer
Our trustee, and Te Miro farmer, Stu Kneebone was recently interviewed in the Waikato Times about the devastation feral browsers (deers and goats) cause in our forests and neighbouring farm lands.Hoofed animals - including goats and deer - occur at 82% of sites on Doc-managed public conservation land, an increase from 63% in 2013.A Federation Farmers survey of its members showed feral animals are costing New Zealand farmers at least $213 million annually, including both pest control and lost pro...
February 17, 2025Giving back to nature: the Rayonier Matariki Forests approach
Rayonier Matariki Forests (RMF) grows and manages 120,000 hectares of forest across Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as investing in nature.Most recently, RMF invested in Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project's Wairere Mahi, to restore the mauri of a site sacred to Ngāti Hinerangi, Killarney Lakes, where RMF has a neighbouring pine forest.In this interview, Rob Schoonderwoerd Forest Manager – Bay of Plenty Region at RMF talks about the company’s land-based conservation mahi that they run alongs...
February 13, 2025Pānui 1 | Kohitātea, January 2025
Ngā mihi nui for joining us in what we hope is another exciting year for conservation in the Kaimai Mamaku, Aotearoa and globally.Over the break, we loved seeing the roundup of conservation successes—Ōtanewainuku Kiwi Trust achieved 0.8% RTI post op for rats and released juvenile kiwi straight from the hatchery into the forest, Palmerston Island (Cook Islands) has been declared rat free and Tītipounamu spotted using nesting boxes in Aongatete Forest Project… just to name a few.It really h...
January 22, 2025Best Moments of 2024
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.For the first month of 2025, we want to spend some time reflecting on our top moments....
January 15, 2025New year, new look
To kick start 2025, we introduce you to our refreshed visual identity! Our bold new look honours the original toi that was gifted to us, of which all elements hold mana and meaning....
January 10, 2025Tīhema pānui | December newsletter
Ngā mihi nui for joining us in our third year of operations where we focused on strengthening our core—strong relationships, knowledge sharing and collaboration. We are most effective when we put the needs of the Kaimai Mamaku kaupapa first, value everyone engaged in the mission, and align our expectations of one another.Read our final pānui of the year to learn more about:DOC's self-led kauri ora training This generation of kaitiaki How you can help us increase our ...
December 17, 2024In the media: Changing the conservation model
Our CEO Louise Saunders joined RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan to discuss the Kaimai Mamaku Restoration Project and the "broken" conservation model.Listen to the full interview here....
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