A native corridor is being planted instead. In the next three years, 18 kilometres of riparian margin will be retired and planted out (128,000 native plants). The regional council is working with seven landowners to deliver year one of this project.
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Children plant native trees to help create a native corridor along the Kaimai Range and in the Hauraki Plains. Te Poi School principal Linda Larsen said the enviroschool has been planting wetlands on the farm since 2013. “A lot of the kids come from farming families, and they will be the farmers here in the future,” Larson said. “Supporting any one programme builds movement in the rest of the community, and benefits everyone. The planting we’re doing is normalising that for them.”
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After almost becoming extinct, Waikato iwi Ngāti Hinerangi has had its cultural identity reaffirmed after its Treaty settlement passed into law.
Ngāti Hinerangi trustee Philip Samuels initialling the Ngāti Hinerangi Deed of Settlement earlier in the settlement process.
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Ngāti Hinerangi, whose rohe includes the Matamata township, the Kaimai Ranges, and through to Tauranga Moana harbour, will receive more $8.1 million in financial redress, after its settlement legislation passed its third and final reading in Parliament today.
The redress includes a $200,000 cultural fund, $20,000 for a marae rebuild and the return of 14 sites of cultural significance.