Tēnei te mihi atu ki te whānau whānui o Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe me Ngāi Tahu.

Murihiku rūnanga have completed the monitoring section for the Ngā Kete o te Wānanga research project. Our whānau and research team have now completed visiting traditional sites of Te Ara Koroka (Slipstream/dart pounamu trail).

In the last issue we gave an update of the two hīkoi covering the upper Whakatipu-wai-māori and the upper/middle Waiau area. In early April we completed our final monitoring hīkoi within the lower Waiau/Ōraka-Aparima area. We started at Clifton visiting a cave system which our tūpuna used as a stopover and moved down the Waiau and Orauea rivers to the recently developed Waiau habitat ponds. [Read more…]