Services

Aki Tai Here team bring Native Habitat Restoration Services across a wide variety of eco-types in Tai Tokerau, Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand

  • 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

  • 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

  • Planning and delivery of predator control including new technologies.

    Skills and qualifications include:

    • Controlled Substances License

    • data driven predator control

    • remote monitoring

    • delivery of capability building through wānanga

    • workforce development

    • training and certification pathways

    • sharing expertise with conservation communities

  • hei mahitahi ai te mātauranga, hei oranga mō te taiao. Aki Tai Here remains committed to enahncing relationships and connections in our work.

  • supporting groups to collect, discuss and grow understandings of māramataka in environmental services through our ‘Tirotiro Tool’ and training

Tirotiro Tool webinar sessions
Building capabilities for the war on weeds
Ginger challenges near Whangarei Harbour
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Parts of the Aki Tai Here team on the job
Tanekaha under pressure from climbing asparagus
Moth plant pods collected by the thousands
Removal of climbing asparagus through coastal forest understory

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

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.