Our Mahi
Aki Tai Here team bring Native Habitat Restoration Services across a wide variety of eco-types in Tai Tokerau, Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Book in a korero
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Ground and drone informed survey techniques to develop management options and plans for:
Eradication operation planning
Native habitat restoration
Culturally informed management plans (conditional on mana i te whenua consent)
Connecting people with habitat restoration opportunities + services
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Delivering native habitat restoration through removing ecological weeds is the core speciality of Aki Tai Here.
Skills and qualifications include:
Sitewise + Growsafe
GPS + Data Entry
biosecurity management planning and delivery
working with cultural supervision in sensitive landscapes
steep and difficult to access areas specialty
large landscape scale habitat restoration
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Planning and delivery of predator control including new technologies.
Skills and qualifications include:
Controlled Substances License
data driven predator control
remote monitoring
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delivery of capability building through wānanga
workforce development
training and certification pathways
sharing expertise with conservation communities
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hei mahitahi ai te mātauranga, hei oranga mō te taiao. Aki Tai Here remains committed to enahncing relationships and connections in our work.
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supporting groups to collect, discuss and grow understandings of māramataka in environmental services through our ‘Tirotiro Tool’ and training
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skills to identify native plants within riparian and wetland areas, advise on restoration including pest plant suppression methods and options
TIROTIRO TOOL - MĀRAMATAKA TRAINING
Developed through ongoing projects alongside Weed Action Native Habitat Restoration Trust, Aki Tai Here is now able to share the ‘Tirotiro Tool’, an mobile application for making observations over time in the pursuit of understanding indicators of change in Te Ao Tūroa over time.
PILOT PROJECT 2023/24
building a local mātauranga informed collaboration for native habitat restoration across the Whangārei Heads
TIROTIRO KI TE WAI
Our team continue to learn how to best support haukāinga and wetlands through this project, thanks to Te Wai Maori Trust Wai Ora Funding and Northland Regional Council Tangata Whenua Environmental Monitoring Fund over 2024/25.
This included haukāinga inviting our team to mahi alongside them in their taiao goals, and supporting more training to better understand rāhui and other restrictions which support freshwater habitats to thrive.
PĀTAUA ISLAND PREDATOR CONTROL
With the support of Predator Free Whangārei, predator control across Pātaua Island will be continued.
Over April + May, Aki Tai Here kaimahi will be visiting homes near monitoring stations in for permissions korero. Whānau can also email us for resources to manage their own traps and bait stations.
This project is only possible through Pātaua Island Whānau support.
Manaia Maunga - Threatened Species
This project is resourced via Department of Conservation Threatened Species Funding received by Weed Action Native Habitat Restoration Trust to protect and preserve Nationally Critical plant species including Northland Horopito and Ramarama through habitat restoration on Manaia Ridge Scenic Reserve.
This project also is being run in parallel with a DOC led conversation with the hapū of Whangārei Heads on the future of the Northland Horopito, and we seek ongoing direction from these hui on how this project progresses, alongside Weed Action Native Habitat Restoration Trust.