Waingōngoro Awa Restoration Project

Waingōngoro Awa Restoration Project This is a community lead ecosystem restoration project based here in Waimārama, Hawke's Bay. The project is aiming to protect and improve the Waingōngoro Awa.

Our awa is very important from both a cultural and community perspective.

📣 We're so very sorry but due to a couple of hiccups we made the tough call to POSTPONE Love Our Awa day #2 that was pl...
24/08/2026

📣 We're so very sorry but due to a couple of hiccups we made the tough call to POSTPONE Love Our Awa day #2 that was planned for this Saturday up on Matanginui.

We realise this could be frustrating for some - we hope that you get the opportunity to come on the new date and enjoy of a bit of sun with Spring fast approaching.

😌🌿

Here's the flyers that the Department of Conservation - Hawke's Bay brought along to our Love Our Awa day this past Satu...
13/08/2026

Here's the flyers that the Department of Conservation - Hawke's Bay brought along to our Love Our Awa day this past Saturday. I have plenty of copies available if you'd like to DM me. It's excellent info for us living in Waimārama knowing that our taonga the *Kiwi* are finding their way into our area - its exciting but also important that we educate ourselves to ensure we help them thrive 🌿🪺💚

If you missed out today - don't stress we have another Love Our Awa day coming on Saturday 29th August - register now wh...
08/08/2026

If you missed out today - don't stress we have another Love Our Awa day coming on Saturday 29th August - register now whānau.

https://events.humanitix.com/love-our-awa-day-29aug

(and yes we will actually be planting a few trees this time Kaitiaki 😊🌿)

Love Our Awa day 8th Aug ❤️🌿
08/08/2026

Love Our Awa day 8th Aug ❤️🌿

📣📣NOTE NEW DATE & TIME💚 Love Our Awa Day : Explore, Learn, Play & Protect 💚Ready for a fun day out with the whānau?Come ...
14/07/2026

📣📣NOTE NEW DATE & TIME

💚 Love Our Awa Day : Explore, Learn, Play & Protect 💚

Ready for a fun day out with the whānau?

Come along to the official launch of Love Our Awa and discover how you can help care for the Waingōngoro Awa while enjoying a day packed with hands-on activities, learning and fun!

🌿 Hear the story of our awa & restoration project
🦔 Learn how to tackle predators and invasive pests (incl. pest plants) AND discuss the Kiwi birds in our neighbourhood
🪤 Try your hand at setting predator traps
💧 Test the health of the awa
🛶 Play with the games from the HDC Waka Tākaro
🎯 Enjoy interactive conservation challenges for all ages
📖 Collect stamps from each activity for a Love Our Awa Kaitiaki (guardian) prize
🍰 Finish the day with kai and time to connect with the community

Whether you're 5 or 95, everyone can play a part in protecting our awa. No experience is needed—just bring your curiosity, your walking shoes and your whānau!

📅 Saturday 8 August
🕙 9:30 am – 1.00 pm (followed by lunch)
📍 Waimārama Marae
🎟️ FREE – Everyone is welcome!

⚠️PLEASE NOTE we need you to register on our Humanitix site to make sure we have enough seats & kai for everyone and for health & safety reasons. Click here to register or scan the QR code:
https://events.humanitix.com/love-our-awa-day-launch

Together we'll learn, have fun, and take simple actions that make a real difference for our awa and the wildlife that depends on it.

Bring the whole whānau and become an Awa Kaitiaki! 💚🌿

🌱✨Love Our Awa Day - coming soon!We are so grateful to have received funding through the Hastings District Council - Te ...
25/06/2026

🌱✨Love Our Awa Day - coming soon!

We are so grateful to have received funding through the Hastings District Council - Te Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Heretaunga Community Grants to help us come together as a community to protect and celebrate our awa, the Waingongoro.

So, save the date please - Saturday 29 August
More details and registration links will be provided soon 🤩🌱✨

🌱 Big mihi to our marae whānau 🌱 He rangi ātaahua ā tātou mahi whakatō rākau i tērā Hatarei. What a beautiful day we had...
19/06/2026

🌱 Big mihi to our marae whānau 🌱

He rangi ātaahua ā tātou mahi whakatō rākau i tērā Hatarei. What a beautiful day we had last Saturday at the Waimarama Marae planting day. It was awesome to see a range of whānau coming from near and far to tautoko restoring the Waingōngoro Awa right in the backyard of our marae. It was especially heartwarming to have a good number of tamariki and rangatahi getting involved too!

Thank you to Te Aowhītiki Lee Kershaw-Karaitiana, the Marae Manager, for organising this event, getting the spots sprayed by our whānau beforehand and getting Dad, Dave Karaitiana, on the auger boring those holes all day long. Also, a big thank you to Honey Lee Blakeney-Cabot, our Project Manager, for her demonstration and planting knowledge to help ensure a successful day of planting.

A big mihi to our partners Sustainable HB for lending us the auger and planting equipment, Hawke's Bay Regional Council for the use of their planting trailer, and our plant supplier, Plant Hawke's Bay Ltd.

And finally, to our whānau who showed up to tautoko – he mihi maioha ki a koutou, otirā ki a tātou. We were able to plant close to 900 plants at our pā along our awa – ka mau te wehi!! Having our whānau and hapū involved in this mahi makes it so much more special.

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