This will include projects that lead to outcomes such as:
• Larger riparian setbacks along the river and feeder streams, riparian planting and
fencing;
• Land retirement/aforestation of severely eroding land, including hill planting and
forestry
• Biodiversity (protection/restoration of valuable habitats, including restoration of river
network connectivity for biota to upstream habitats)
• Wetland protection and restoration, including reconnection and/or enhancement of of
channel habitats
• Investigate and test use of altered farm practices to remove suspended sediment
during rain events, qualify their role in detaining sediment which may include detailed
modelling of sediment sources (forest and non-forest) to clearly identify where the
priority areas are, and allow clarity of ‘before and after’ intervention scenarios
• Identifcation, prioritisation and stabilisation of erosion hotspots including river banks
at a scale appropriate for reducing suspended sediment loads
• Assess and implement farm scale management methods to promote land use change in
ash and mudstone catchments.
3. Above the Karapiro Dam to the Huka Falls (referred to in map Area B)
Priorities for Trust funding for this area include projects that address:
• Biodiversity improvement, including riparian margins including for stream biota
• Larger riparian setbacks along the river and feeder streams, riparian planting and
fencing
• Wetland restoration, protection and recreation, including headwater seeps and springs
• Protecting diversity of natural landscapes including unique geothermal landscapes
• Catchment management plans
• Protection and restoration of native sheries and their habitats
• Reducing nutrient inputs into hydro lakes
• Addressing heavy metal accumulation in sediments, including managing the risk of
arsenic and mercury in mahinga kai species and
• Improving access to the River and development of river trails.
4. Maatauranga Maaori
We support projects specifcally identifed as Maatauranga Maaori. However Maatauranga
Maaori may be supported in any of the funding areas outlined and, where appropriate, this
should be acknowledged.
Maatauranga Maaori is usually used to mean ‘Maaori knowledge’ – distinctive knowledge
created by Maaori in history and arising from their living circumstances, their world view and
their experiences. From this perspective, one might think of a basket in which a wide range
of knowledge items can be found (whakapapa, koorero, waiata etc.). The name of the basket
itself is ‘Maatauranga Maaori’. Hence, these terms are used to circumscribe the totality of
the knowledge and knowing created by Maaori of the past. Maatauranga Maaori can also
refer to, usually, sacred and specialised knowledge that was not the preserve of the common
population but rather it was known by initiated experts only.
Maatauranga Maaori is a relevant and signifcant ‘way of knowing’ implemented by tangata
whenua that will add value to the restoration of the Waikato River and its catchment.
Projects that either use Maatauranga as a way of understanding and fnding solutions to the
issues facing the Waikato River, or seek to restore and reinvigorate traditional knowledge
Waikato River Clean-up Trust Funding Strategy
September 2012
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