Celebrating 10 years of successful Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund Partnerships

Ms. Nori Parata, Kahukuranui and Tolaga Bay Area School Principal, explains, “we decided to clean up the Ūawa ngutuawa and restore it to what it may have looked like when the Endeavour made its way into the bay way back in 1769.” This aspiration led the Royal Society to introduce them to Massey University Physics Professor and Allan Wilson Centre collaborator Paul Callaghan, who suggested they take a bigger view and look at the whole Ūawa catchment. The project then went from “an area school project to a school-driven community project and iwi project,” Parata says.us.

Professor Callaghan’s collaborations with the Allan Wilson Centre introduced Ūawa and the school to Professor Nigel French and his team. Even though this research collaboration was prior to VMCF existence, the Ūawa Tolaga Bay community and Massey science researchers developed a healthy, ongoing relationship through this rangahau mahi. The whole-of-catchment approach delivered substantial data about all of the waterways’ health, entire ecosystem knowledge, and the beginning of robust riparian fencing and planting.

Matua Victor Walker explains that Ūawanui negotiated with the iwi land incorporations and landowners over a decade ago to give up 10-15 metres of their land along the water for riparian restoration. They were able to restore that land through community agreement before legislation was enacted to require it. Their NZFSSRC partnership restored the paddocks and waterways between the main road and the beach and built a native nursery. Walker reflects on the restoration as a “real source of pride. It created a buzz in other regions that we were a part of that early change.”

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Professor Callaghan’s collaborations with the Allan Wilson Centre introduced Ūawa and the school to Professor Nigel French and his team. Even though this research collaboration was prior to VMCF existence, the Ūawa Tolaga Bay community and Massey science researchers developed a healthy, ongoing relationship through this rangahau mahi. The whole-of-catchment approach delivered substantial data about all of the waterways’ health, entire ecosystem knowledge, and the beginning of robust riparian fencing and planting.

Matua Victor Walker explains that Ūawanui negotiated with the iwi land incorporations and landowners over a decade ago to give up 10-15 metres of their land along the water for riparian restoration. They were able to restore that land through community agreement before legislation was enacted to require it. Their NZFSSRC partnership restored the paddocks and waterways between the main road and the beach and built a native nursery. Walker reflects on the restoration as a “real source of pride. It created a buzz in other regions that we were a part of that early change.”

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