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Funding
Recipients 2013
Name
Approved
maximum
Project
Manaaki Tuna - restoration of
tuna in the lower Waikato River
(Waikato-Tainui College)
$851,500.00
Waikato-Tainui College, NIWA and WRRT are funded to undertake
a major tuna restoration project in the lower Waikato River
catchment. A three-year project including development of a tuna
restoration plan for the Waikato River, habitat restoration, eel
transfers, and improvements in fish passage. Collating Waikato-
Tainui maatauranga o te tuna.
Willow and alder management
New Zealand Landcare Trust &
WRRT
$49,800.00
Development of a guideline for willow and alder management
within the catchment, agreed across interested parties
Mangapu River restoration
Waikato Regional Council &
Maniapoto Maori Trust Board
$49,800.00
Development of a guideline for willow and alder management
within the catchment, agreed across interested parties.
Kaniwhaniwha Stream Waikato
Regional Council & Nga Uri a
Maahanga
$46,428.00 Undertaking riparian retoration on the Mangapu River
Mangaonua Stream restoration
Ngaati Haua Mahi Trust
$48,877.00 Kaniwhaniwha Stream Riparian Restoration
Lower Mangapiko Stream Care $42,766.00
Mangapiko Stream Restoration – stock exclusion and riparian
restoration
Maniapoto Stream Hillcrest,
Ngaati Haua Mahi Trust
$165,380.00
Mangaone Stream Riparian Restoration – plant pest removal and
replanting
Wetland restoration Te Toke,
Te Toke Ahu Whenua Trust
$165,380.00
Mangaone Stream Riparian Restoration – plant pest removal and
replanting
Provision of trees for planting
South Waikato Environmental
Initiatives
$131,675.00 Restoration of a major wetland within the Te Toke Forest
Lower Waipa River riparian
project, Whaingaroa Harbourcare
$17,569.20
Provision of trees to supply riparian margin restorations in the
South Waikato District
Evaluation of koura in hydro
lakes NIWA
$98,540.00
Strategic evaluation of koura populations in the upper Waikato
– gaining an udnerstanding of what impacts are causing much
reduced koura populations in the hydro lakes
Maniapoto Fisheries Plan,
Maniapoto Maori Trust Board
$83,260.00 Development of the Maniapoto Fisheries Plan
Restoration from Willows,
Opus International Consultants
$49,300.00
Trialling restoration methods to move riparian vegetation
from willows to indigenous plants using Western science and
Maatauranga Maori.
Lake Ngaroto planting and pest
fish removal, Waipa District
Council
$131,890.40
Lake Ngaroto -undertaking riparian planting & pest fish reduction
programmes
GIS toolbox GHD Limited
$71,760.00
Providing the WRA with a GIS Toolbox to allow evaluation of
proposed and ongoing projects, and impacts on the catchment
Mangati Stream restoration,
Stuart Muir
$49,130.00
Restoration of inanga spawning habitat on the Mangati Stream,
lower Waikato
Restoring and protecting the health and wellbeing of the Waikato River
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