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MAHURU SEPTEMBER 2019 / ISSUE 95
OURAUCKLAND.NZ
WE CAN BE HEROES
Now more than ever we need to understand the role of kaitiakitanga
(guardianship) to protect and restore Auckland’s natural environment.
Whether it’s planting native trees, trapping pests, using public
transport or educating the next generation, we can all be
environmental heroes and create a more sustainable future.
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GREEN SHOOTS CONTACT US
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THE BRIEFING
INFORMATION AND INSPIRATION FROM AUCKLAND COUNCIL HQ
SPLASHING
OUT
Applications for paid
summer lifeguard positions
at Auckland Council pools
throughout the region
open on 1 September.
If you’re a confident
swimmer with effective
communication skills and
an interest in community
wellbeing, this is the role
for you, and it could open
the door to a career in the
sports and leisure industry.
You’ll receive on-the-job
training and work with a
team of passionate people
in a fun and inspiring
environment.
Working as a summer
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STAR GAZERS for anyone, regardless
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More than 1000 secondary finals, included multiple High School, whose original govt.nz to apply.
school students entered competitors from talent song, Mad Men, was hugely Applications open 1
Auckland Council’s Stand Up hotspots Northcote and acclaimed. September and close on 29
Stand Out 2019 youth music Waitākere colleges and “Stand Up Stand Out September.
and dance competition. Papatoetoe High School. represents what Auckland’s
In August, some The best of the bunch now young talent can do,” says
extraordinarily talented go on to compete for a Event Director Gene Rivers.
singers, musicians and share of $6000 in prizes at “We’ve seen a number
dancers took to the stage at the finals on 14 September, of performers go on to
the Ōtara Music Arts Centre 3pm-6.30pm, at Vodafone professional careers in the
for the heats and impressed Events Centre, Manukau. music industry.”
this year’s judges, Bella Entry is free for all ages. The competition has been
Kalolo, Cherie Mathieson, Talent returning to running for nearly 30 years
Joash Fahitua and Diana Hu. compete in Stand Up Stand and has become Auckland’s
The semi-finalists, who Out 2019 includes last premier music and dance
competed on 19 and 20 year’s solo vocal winner, competition for secondary
August for a chance at the Silika Isaia, from Papatoetoe school students.
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CLASS ACT
Curtain Up! is a visual gain an understanding of the
snapshot of Auckland importance of performance
theatre from the 1950s to space to the success or
the 1980s, a pivotal time in otherwise of theatre
the city’s theatrical history. companies. On display will
It explores the rise of be programmes, photos,
professional drama with a posters, flyers and tickets
New Zealand flavour from from Auckland Libraries’
its grassroots in community Heritage Collections. At
and youth theatre. Discover the Central City Library
venues lost and saved and until 24 November.
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biosecurity dogs check ferries and
vehicles heading to Hauraki Gulf
islands in the hunt for rodents,
plague skinks, stoats and ferrets
Zero
The target for reducing carbon
emissions in the city by 2050,
outlined in Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri,
the Auckland Climate Action
Framework
Power up
having your say in this kaupapa. Seek
information, and embrace your role in
this vision. Sustainability goes beyond 1.2 million
preserving our environment. It will visitors to the Auckland Botanic
Imagine a city that commits to protect our future generations. This is Gardens each year
a common goal and each person our future, our Auckland.
contributes to the vision – the goal My top tips for a sustainable future:
being climate action and a sustainable 1. Recycle and reuse. There are 36
future for Auckland. What makes the recycling bins for our waste, but also Sites around the city where water
difference is that every individual is think about the things you own. I like quality is assessed every month
included and recognises their power. to donate used items, and shop for
Sustainability is multifaceted, and second-hand goods.
there is no one-size-fits-all guide to 2. Buy locally. Doing so contributes
reducing our carbon emissions. We are to the economic wealth of our
fortunate to live in a great multicultural communities, but it also means cutting
city, and with diverse perspectives down on the transporting of goods.
there is ample opportunity to be This reduces pollution and congestion.
innovative, collaborative and proactive 3. Get involved. I made a submission
about sustainable development. The to the Zero Carbon Bill. It’s important
NUMBER SOURCES: AUCKLAND COUNCIL, AUCKLAND CLIMATE ACTION FRAMEWORK, WATERCARE, KNOWLEDGE AUCKLAND
Auckland Climate Action Framework to seek out opportunities to learn more
adopts this collective approach. about sustainability, and have your say
We need to engage with each other on laws and regulations that prioritise
about sustainable alternatives in our
daily conversations, in the media, in
a sustainable future.
10,130ha
our schools, and through our work. This Chesta Fa’otusia was asked to The extent of canopy cover in
will help better prepare our youth to contribute an opinion piece for this Auckland’s urban area featuring
be conscious of the issues and secure a issue. She is a law student at the trees over 3m tall. By comparison,
future that manifests sustainable values. University of Auckland and was part Eden Park’s No 1 field is 1.6ha
CHESTA FA’OTUSIA PHOTO / ANGIE HUMPHREYS; WATER QUALITY / JAY FARNWORTH
Climate action can take many forms, of the Auckland delegation to the
from reducing your carbon footprint KiMua NZ: Exploring Climate Futures
through small lifestyle changes to workshop in Wellington, which 26km
trying to change laws and regulations. explored scenarios for adapting to and of tracks have been made kauri-
I urge all Aucklanders to act now by mitigating climate change. safe in the Waitākere Ranges,
Hunua Ranges and other regional
parks. Eight tracks have now been
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LOCAL NEWS / AROUND AUCKLAND
MOON FESTIVAL, COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS, PEST ERADICATION AND SCHOOL EMBRACES RECYCLING
IN YOUR
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WHAKAMĀTAUHIA KIA MŌHIO KNOW /
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DOMINION ROAD OFF (ABOVE)
MOON FESTIVAL The Karangahape Road
Celebrate the new moon enhancement project
with a night of dazzling is under way. It aims to
colour, flavour and preserve the road’s unique
performance at Potters Park, character while creating
Saturday and Sunday 14 and a street environment
15 September, 5pm-9pm. that meets the needs of a
Supported by Albert-Eden growing population. Stage
MOON FESTIVAL / KELLIE BLIZZARD; BESTING THE PESTS / ROB ZUBIELEVITCH
Local Board, the Balmoral one between the cemetery
Chinese Business Association and Upper Queen Street is
and the Dominion Road expected to take around two TORO ATU VISIT /
Business Association. months. at.govt.nz/projects ŌREWA MARKETS
Treat yourself to quality
products handmade from
TĀKARO PLAY / TABLE new, recycled and upcycled
TENNIS materials at the monthly
Maungakiekie-Tāmaki artisan market at the Ōrewa
Local Board recently gave Community Centre, 368
the Auckland Table Tennis Hibiscus Coast Highway.
Association a small grant Open Sunday 29 September,
to deliver the Tables in 9am-1pm. That’s also
Communities Project. Keep the venue for the weekly
an eye out for a table farmers’ market, which
tennis table in a public hosts food stalls and offers
spot near you and give the fresh produce for sale every
sport a go. Sunday, 8am-12.30pm.
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SCHOOLING UP
When Onehunga Primary School wanted to introduce a school-
wide waste-minimisation project, it teamed up with EcoMatters
Environment Trust’s Love Your Neighbourhood initiative. Waste
Busters kicked off with a rubbish audit to determine exactly what the
school’s current habits and waste needs were. It quickly became clear
too much paper and compost was going to landfill. The solution was
to fit out each room with specific bins and to introduce a recycling
education plan. “Each classroom takes turns to check and empty
the bins, and we found that this involvement helped keep everyone
engaged,” says the school’s environmental leader, Jackie Arthur.
“All 21 classrooms plus the administration block are taking part.”
BESTING THE PESTS
As a young boy, Rob Zubielevitch (below)
could name many New Zealand native birds
and trees. Now retired, he is a dedicated
volunteer who traps animal pests that
threaten Omaha’s native wildlife. He says
getting more people involved would enable
pest numbers to be reduced over a larger
area. The chance of reinvasion is reduced
by Omaha being a peninsula. “It’s very
satisfying seeing how bird life has increased
over the last 18 months,” says Zubielevitch.
“New birds we’ve seen are bellbirds, grey
warblers and kākā. I love what I do. There has
FOR MORE AL been tremendous success catching many
O YOUR LO
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N E WS V IS IT rats, stoats and weasels in traps placed
AN D.NZ in several reserves.” Rodney Local Board
OURAUCKL
funded the Omaha Peninsula Community
Pest Free Plan to assist local residents to
undertake a co-ordinated pest management
initiative. Volunteers are needed and anyone
PROTECT AND SERVE interested should contact Community Park
Ranger Sinead Brimacombe via Auckland
Council on 09 301 0101, or at sinead.
VOLUNTEERS, LOCAL BOARD STEP UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT brimacombe@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.
Over the past year, there has been a steady rise in the number of volunteers
getting involved in environmental activities across the Devonport-Takapuna
Local Board area – from numerous planting and beach clean-up days, to
initiatives to combat plant and animal pests.
The largest coastal clean-up day involved more than 1500 volunteers from
a dozen schools. Hundreds of helpers also cleaned up Takapuna and Milford
beaches, Patuone Reserve and around Lake Pupuke.
Community groups, clubs and schools have also helped to plant 3800
native plants in nine reserves.
The local board has supported the environmental initiatives with funding
and by providing equipment and native plants, removing rubbish and putting
on barbecue lunches for volunteers. It also supports a number of pest plant
and animal eradication schemes, including rat-control projects around
Ngataringa and Shoal bays led by Forest and Bird, and similar work undertaken
by the Waitematā Golf Club.
See ourauckland.nz for a detailed list of groups working to improve the
environment and the activities they’re involved in.
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1 2
Keeping up
1. Around 5000 people took part in Hīkoia
te Kōrero events last year in Auckland
2. The logo for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
with the kōrero wanted to do that, they enrolled
me, too.” Now she does one night a
week, and although she isn’t fluent,
she recently plucked up the courage
Every New Zealander can help strengthen the Māori to have a kōrero with two Māori-
language simply by using it. That’s the theme of this year’s speaking strangers in a bar.
Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau /
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week, which
Auckland Council offers staff 10-
kicks off on 9 September. Sam Button talked to three week courses for beginners, and
Aucklanders who have done their bit to revitalise te reo. there’s an app for them called Kete
Kōrero. The council is also working
In 1984, a Māori telephone operator able to share what I’ve learned with with mana whenua and local boards
by the name of Naida Glavish found people in the same position I was.” on a programme called Te Kete
herself embroiled in controversy He says Māori courses at the Rukuruku, which aims to add names
because she used ‘kia ora’ to greet university are bursting at the seams. It’s significant to Māori to local parks
callers to the Post Office, where she had waiting lists for the past two years. and community places. The council is
worked. Chastised by her manager, Amy Norrish, from Mount Albert, also working with Te Taura Whiri i te
who wanted English-only greetings, who undertook a course in Māori Reo Māori, Tūpuna Maunga Authority
Glavish was almost fired, but at Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka and Tūpuna Taonga Trust to host
support from around Aotearoa (and / Unitec last year, says it’s really Hīkoia te Kōrero on 12 September
intervention by then-prime minister important as a New Zealander to at Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill.
Robert Muldoon) saved her job and have a certain standard of reo. She This free event will see participants
put the Māori greeting firmly in the signed up partly to set an example immerse themselves in the reo while
spotlight. Now, Glavish is a dame, kia for her kids, aged 4 and 8. “I noticed walking up to and around the tihi
ora is ubiquitous and the language I was even falling behind my young (summit), then come back down to
is undergoing a revival supported by children. The Māori language they get stalls, a sausage sizzle and live music.
both Māori and Pākehā. at kindergarten is quite amazing.” The Tūpuna maunga (ancestral
“The language is unique to this course was an eye-opener, and not mountains) hold a paramount place
place that we share as our home,” says just because of the subject. “When in historical, ancestral and cultural
Hēmi Kelly, a Māori language lecturer we had the celebration at the end, I identity for Māori, and it will be a
at Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau sat across from two much older Māori hugely historic moment to see te reo
Rau / AUT University. “It’s in our place women who were talking about how Māori being celebrated at this place
names, tree names and bird names. wonderful it was to see such a variety of significance.
It’s more present than we sometimes of people there who thought it was Aotearoa has come a long way from
realise. We have to sit back and go, important to learn.” the days of Post Office workers being
‘Actually, te reo Māori is everywhere.’” Numerous reo Māori courses are admonished for saying ‘kia ora’. But
Kelly began learning te reo in high on offer in Tāmaki Makaurau, and there’s still a long way to go. And the
school because he wanted to connect writer Alice Neville did one a few only way to keep te reo Māori alive is
BRYAN LOWE
more to his own identity. “It grew into years back. “A few of my workmates to keep using it. As this year’s theme
a love. I met others with the same enrolled in a course at Te Wānanga says, “Kia kaha te reo Māori / Let’s
passion, and now through teaching I’m o Aotearoa. When I said I’d always make the Māori language strong.”
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Auckland Council’s vision is for the region to be pest free by
2050. Tom Sadler explains the thinking behind the
connected ‘green corridors’ strategy – and why it’s
so important for Aucklanders to get involved.
Auckland is a region spaces (both public and private) to guides, pest traps and funding.
surrounded by act as ‘stepping stones’ across the “The critical thing is to not
individual sites region. But reaching this goal won’t delay. Do something: talk to
of conservation just be up to the council; it will also your neighbours, take
success. Purging require the city’s residents to make a action,” says Butland.
islands and fenced commitment to conservation. “Talk to us. Send us
reserves of pests and reintroducing an email [pestfree@
native flora and fauna have helped The growing community effort aucklandcouncil.govt.
to regenerate many endangered “The critical thing here is actually the nz]; we’ll respond.”
populations. But as long as these power of the collective,” Butland says. The council’s park rangers
successes remain isolated from one “People may think, ‘What I do here regularly lead volunteer days
another, the future of Auckland’s isn’t going to make a difference’, when at reserves, educational talks
native taonga will hang in the balance. really that’s what matters.” and workshops, alongside the
Brett Butland, Auckland Council’s Since the Pest Free Auckland Department of Conservation. These
Pest Free Auckland 2050 programme programme was established in 2017, events can be found via the Auckland
project director, believes the key to the number of community-powered Biodiversity Facebook page or the Pest
protecting – and restoring – our native conservation groups the council Free Auckland 2050 newsletter.
biodiversity over the next 30 years lies works with has risen well into the Naturespace.org.nz can also put you
in encouraging a pest-free “mosaic of thousands. They come from all over: in touch with community-led groups.
connected habitats” across the region “Rural, urban, on the islands, east
– on islands and the mainland. coast, west coast – you name it, it’s Adding your link to the chain
Council and community sanctuary happening.” And they vary in scope Whether your garden is in one of the
partnerships, such as Tāwharanui and and focus – from predator trapping, corridors indicated on the map or not,
Shakespear regional parks, are weed eradication and native planting, restoring Auckland’s native ecosystem
triumphs of preservation. And, with to the preservation of individual wherever possible is of immeasurable
pest-free island reserves in the species. The results are heartening. value to the collective effort. The
Hauraki Gulf, such as Tiritiri Matangi Wētā populations in the Manukau council has a straightforward and well-
and Rangitoto, the foundations for a lowlands are on the rise following supported three-step guide to helping.
large-scale regeneration of Auckland’s pest-control activities and installations Place traps to eradicate pests. The
ecosystem are already there. The of ‘weta motels’; kākā – generally council recommends people attend
obstacle, Butland says, is that “a great heard before they’re seen – have been one of its informative events or get
number of our species don’t travel very found in Northcote, Kohimarama, in contact before they start trapping.
far. So, the need for a more connected Waitākere, Drury and even as centrally Predatorfreenz.org offers a useful
habitat is crucial. In the past, we have as Cornwall Park; korimako (bellbirds) range of traps for purchase.
seen birds and invertebrates begin to have been reported in Ōrākei; and Pull weeds that restrict biodiversity.
successfully spread out from [pest- even pekapeka (long-tailed bats), Attend council-run events or visit
free] reserves, only to be predated which are classed as ‘nationally weedbusters.org.nz to learn about
upon and curtailed.” critical’, have been seen from harmful weeds.
ILLUSTRATION / JONNIE RITCHIE
The solution is to create expansive Patumahoe to Henderson. Plant natives: A crucial step in
‘green corridors’ between the existing encouraging native fauna to inhabit
successful reserves to facilitate the Getting involved your garden. Weedbusters.org.nz also
migration and population growth The council is committed to offers an invaluable guide to native
of our native fauna. The council is supporting community conservation plants and what wildlife they will
working with others to establish a groups willing to help the cause. It encourage in its Plant Me
network of pest-free, native green offers technical advice, best-practice Instead booklets.
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PESTFREEAKLGUIDING VALERIE TERAITUA is
the kaiwhakahaere at
Papatūānuku Kokiri
Marae. It has been zero
LIGHTS
waste for six years,
sourcing much of its
food from organic gardens
on its grounds.
How did you become zero waste?
We all need heroes to inspire us. The following We’ve been part of the Para Kore Ki
Aucklanders are doing just that in an effort to protect Tāmaki Makaurau [which works with
marae to reduce waste], but we’ve also
the environment, now and in the future. Here are been supported by Auckland Council’s
their stories, and their top tips for reducing waste minimisation fund to help
your environmental impact. educate people who come through
our marae to become sustainable.
What does being zero waste involve?
Papatūānuku is Mother Earth, so it’s
about being able to connect with
our sustainable model of te oranga
tonu tanga, or wellbeing. We have
our gardens, where we do lots of
composting. We also grow food with
no toxins or fertilisers or pesticides, so
we’re an organic field. It’s also about
the way we purchase things when
we’re providing hospitality. So it’s ‘do
we need to buy that? Can we buy in
bulk to reduce the amount of waste?’
Everything is either reusable or
recyclable. It’s about being protectors
of the whenua, guardians of the land.
SHAY BRAZIER is a solar engineer and one of the owners of a We show people that and share the
Zero Energy House in Western Springs. mātauranga, or knowledge.
The team behind How do you achieve zero energy and What are your top environmental tips?
the Zero Energy a home that doesn't need heating? 1. Stop using plastic bags. Come to the
House documented The home is designed to capture the marae and learn how to make a pēke.
its construction at zero sun’s energy and ensure it is not lost.
energyhouse.co.nz and provide regular This involves orienting the building 2. We encourage whānau to grow
updates on how much renewable and glazing to the north, insulating their own little gardens with whatever
energy it produces. 50 per cent over building code resources they have. You can grow
and investing in high-performance inside in little plastic bottles. You can
What’s the history of the windows/glazing. Also, we use solar grow on your front porch. Wherever the
Zero Energy House? systems to generate hot water and sun is. You can grow kai anywhere.
We wanted to demonstrate it was electricity.
possible to build a home in Auckland 3. Buy in bulk. Go to places where you
that was zero energy and did not Your top environmental tips? can take your own containers. Take
need to be heated in order to be 1. Invest in design and the building your own reusable bags. Take your own
warm, dry, healthy and comfortable envelope first. It is possible to build a boxes. And only buy what you need.
year-round on an urban site. We home that is comfortable and healthy
decided to publish the home’s design, all year around with no heating. A
build and performance so others simple, compact and well-considered
could understand what could be design can save money while
achieved, and hopefully do the same providing an inspiring place to live.
themselves.
2. Install low-flow shower heads (five
JAY FARNWORTH, GETTY IMAGES
Why was it an important project? litres a minute). They can save you
Zero energy is a simple measurable thousands in water and energy bills
outcome that people can easily while giving you an amazing shower.
understand. At a design level it drives
significant energy-efficiency measures 3. Get a timer for your heated towel
if you want to achieve it in a cost- rail. One towel rail can use 10 per
effective way. cent of the average home’s electricity.
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ANNALILY VAN DEN BROEKE is part of a massive volunteer-
led effort to restore a native forest block and wetland.
The 37ha Matuku People won’t care for what they don’t
Link project in know, which is why we love it when
Bethells Valley, people visit to help out and get a
west Auckland, won first-hand experience of a wetland
the Restoration Award at last year’s environment. We welcome everyone,
Mayoral Conservation Awards. from individual volunteers to large
business groups, international
Why is the Matuku Link such an students to local Girl Guides. Since
important ecological area? our start two and a half years ago,
It links untouched kauri forest, a river we’ve had more than 2000 visitors
valley, wetlands and the sea and is and volunteers help us, donating
home to rare wetland birds such as time, money and expertise. Most
the matuku (bittern), pāteke (brown people join us at our working bees on
teal), pūweto (spotless crake), as well the third Sunday of the month, 10am
as native eels. We have only nine per to 1pm, followed by a shared lunch
cent of our wetlands left in Auckland, with hot soups and drinks.
and we need people to start loving them; they just won’t show you
our incredible swamps. They are not What are your top environmental tips? anymore.
only the homes of those endangered 1. Buy a rat trap, learn how to use it
native birds, they also filter water and get rid of pests. By taking out one 3. Come to one of our working bees.
flowing to the sea, protecting it from rat, you can potentially prevent 1000 And even if you can’t do that, talk
sediment build-up. They clean the new rats flooding our environment. to your neighbours about the value
water, enhancing habitat for fish, and of trees for us humans (carbon sink,
slow stormwater down to prevent 2. Keep your cat indoors. Cats bring water retention, shade, keeping the
flooding of our homes and paddocks. back only a quarter of what they soil stable and preventing water
catch. And they are very smart: if runoff taking the topsoil
What are some of the benefits you don’t respond very happy when with it etc) and for
you’ve seen from this being a they bring you a bird, they won’t, but our birds. Don’t FOR MORE
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volunteer-led restoration? it doesn’t mean they stop catching cut them down. ENVI NMEN TLY.NZ.
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Environmentalists.
The SAYE group environmental action and local
empowers youth government. Why is that so
to have their say important?
in environmental It’s crucial to educate and engage
movements, hosting events and rangatahi on climate change as we
workshops and finding volunteering are the generation that will have to
opportunities. face its worst impacts. It’ll be our
homes submerged, it’ll be us who
What inspired you to start SAYE? have to adapt to the extreme and
The spaces within environmental dangerous heat, it’ll be us trying to
conversations don’t include many survive in a dying world. Educating
Pasifika/Māori faces. These are our rangatahi enables them to engage
the people most affected by with purpose, to understand, and
environmental issues, yet we’re rarely then potentially make a change. sustainable is cheap and saves a
included in discussions about them. lot of money. All you’re doing is
Auckland has the largest Polynesian What are your top environmental tips? reusing what you have (bottles,
population of any city on Earth, and 1. Don’t be scared. Want to ask the cups and clothes) instead of buying
the majority of the Pacific people barista to use a Keep Cup instead of unnecessary plastic bottles and the
here call south Auckland home. This one you’ll end up throwing away? latest fashions.
is one of the reasons we wanted Do it. Want to make a change in your
to target the youth within south school and start an environmental 3. Small changes are still changes.
Auckland. People may say we’re being club or join one? Do it. Scared of Don’t stress yourself to change
exclusive, but we’ve been excluded being judged for being an activist in your entire lifestyle to help save
from these talks for so long. SAYE is front of your peers? Get new friends the environment, but going without
just creating a platform for our voices and flaunt your passion. Fear restrains meat for a day every week or going to
to be included. us from making that change we want volunteer at a clean-up every other
to see. week will eventually accumulate into
You’re also trying to bring the a significant change, even if it’s a
voices of rangatahi to the fore in 2. Be frugal. Being environmentally small significant change.
MAHURU SEPTEMBER 2019 15FRAZER DALE won
the individual award
at the Mayoral
Conservation
Awards last year.
Dale was honoured for
his work with the Friends of Sunhill
Scenic Reserve, a volunteer-led
organisation that traps pests on land
near Waikumete Cemetery, Glen
Eden, and also runs planting days,
weeding bees and guided tours.
Tell us about your background in
conservation and pest trapping.
I manage the Outreach Conservation
Education team for Auckland Zoo,
which means I teach conservation
skills to school students and their
teachers. However, when I first started years just can’t survive with these your local community. Everyone
four years ago, I didn’t know anything newly introduced pests. If we do needs to play their part.
about pest trapping. I quickly learnt nothing, we could continue to lose
the theory but I wanted to learn more animals that are unique to New 3. Start local and small. Lots of
about the practical side. I also wanted Zealand. If we do pest trapping, we at little everyday actions that help the
to ‘walk the talk’ as we encourage least give these species a chance. environment all add up if everyone
people to get involved and do pest plays their part. That could be as
trapping in their local area. I joined What are your top environmental tips? simple as sorting your rubbish into
several volunteer groups to learn. 1. Do some monitoring or citizen compostable, recyclable and landfill.
science in your area. Observe what Try not to use single-use items such
Why is pest trapping important? is there that you want to save or as straws and coffee cups. Plant
Our endemic and native species enhance and what you may want to native trees, pull weeds, pick up
are fighting a losing battle against trap or control. rubbish at your local park or beach,
introduced pests. Animals that have and ride on public transport now and
been evolving here for millions of 2. Get involved in volunteering in then.
CHRISTINA and institutions. By offsetting our
SIEBERHAGEN emissions, we are not only helping
is a 14-year-old the environment but also helping our
environmental community – or other communities if
activist who spoke you are purchasing carbon credits.
at the School Strike
for Climate Action in 2. Pick up rubbish everywhere you go.
Auckland’s Aotea Square in March. If everyone did this, our environment
would look a lot cleaner and be a lot
You call yourself an environmental greener. Nothing ruins a garden or
activist. What does that entail? tree on the side of the path quite like
I am working as a leader for the seeing a bunch of litter surrounding it.
environment around my school and It isn’t possible to pick up every bit of
community. I lead by example and do rubbish we walk past, but even while
what I can for the environment, such you are waiting for the bus you can
as taking part in my school’s Enviro pick up rubbish.
group and picking up rubbish. [Young
Swedish climate-change campaigner] 3. Contact people who have more
Greta Thunberg is a big inspiration with ocean awareness, then moved power than you and get involved
to me so I school-strike whenever more to plastic pollution, then my in our government. We all live in a
we have one. One of my priorities is focus shifted to climate change democracy and everyone has to be
to ensure everyone is well informed, and now my view is more holistic. represented. Use your voice, strike,
because if we don’t know what we’re By improving one section we can write, petition, study, educate, create,
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fighting for, how are we meant to improve all of them, because they are speak, vote, email, ask, question,
approach our challenges? interconnected. shout, innovate, act, protect, fight!
Talk to other people in your school,
What made you so invested in the Your top environmental tips? your workplace, your community, your
environment? 1. Aim for carbon neutrality in business etc … I can’t vote yet, but I
I love being at the beach, so it started our groups, organisations, homes am using all the other outlets I can.
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is the general
manager of
Innocent Packaging.
Innocent Packaging
produces sustainable,
compostable food packaging in a bid
to plug one of our biggest and most
preventable waste streams.
What’s Innocent Packaging all about?
The idea stemmed from a reusable
coffee cup company. It became
obvious that to create change, we
needed to change the mindset of the
majority – the single-use market. We
started looking for alternatives to
petrochemical-based disposable food
packaging. It started at coffee cups, compostable products (including food) intake. Value quality over convenience.
and now we provide options across aren’t currently getting composted
the sector. everywhere, it doesn’t mean they can’t 2. Have a positive attitude! Working
be. Also, our products are 100 per cent together across industry can have
Why is your firm’s work needed? made from plants, so production is huge positive impacts that are
Where reusables aren't an option, kinder to the environment than oil- urgently required.
we’re providing the next best thing. based packaging.
Single-use packaging that also has 3. Compost. Either do it yourself at
a viable end-of-life option is a step What are your top environmental tips? home or give We Compost a bell. It's
towards eliminating waste to landfill. 1. Being conscious of your purchases. one of the best things you can do for the
A big thing to remember is that even if Eat local, fresh food and limit meat climate, soil quality and to cut waste.
Plastic Purse, 1970s. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. 1995.56.12.
Offi cial print and
digital partnerSARAH JANE
MURRAY is one of
the team leaders
at the Compost
Collective,
an education
programme aimed at
reducing the amount of organic
waste thrown out by Aucklanders.
What is the Compost Collective?
It is a partnership programme funded
by Auckland Council and delivered by
the EcoMatters and Kaipātiki Project
community organisations. It has
been running now for three years,
and we have engaged with 26,742
Aucklanders.
What’s the aim?
To educate Aucklanders about how
to compost. We do this by offering 67
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one of our free workshops, we will how to do it by coming to one of our 3. Rinse out your recycling. We know
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10 Aug 2019–
27 Jan 2020
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Now more than ever, the planet needs environmental
heroes to lead the way to a sustainable future. Hayden
Donnell meets some of the many dedicated Aucklanders
planting the seeds of kaitiakitanga in the next generation.
Twice a week, the children of into nature are planting the seed of
Pakuranga Baptist Kindergarten walk environmentalism in their minds.
the underpass across Ti Rakau Drive, They’re always upset when they see
then trace the banks of an estuary rubbish, says Lees. 1
into an area of native bush. The “We’ve had to phone Auckland
kids have what their teachers call Council a couple of times because
“markers” along the way. There’s a there have been rubbish bags in the
eucalyptus tree they call he rākau nui creek that we couldn’t reach. They
(big tree). When they get there, they [the children] talk about, ‘Who would
always look for mushrooms growing do such a terrible thing? Why do
nearby and check the smaller plants people dump the rubbish in the river?
around its trunk. A little further along It ruins our special place and the fish
the path, they arrive at another tree don’t like it.’”
that looks a bit like a house. The Marisa Pene, Enviroschools’
children pretend fallen branches on regenerative-kaupapa Māori lead,
the ground are possessions: their says one aim is for children to think
couch or their motorbike. Sometimes of the land – Papatūānuku – like a
they’ll pick one up and pretend to do family member. “If Papatūānuku is
the vacuuming. As they go they collect my grandmother in a sense, then how
taonga – pine cones or a wattle flower do I relate to her?” she says. “Would I
– if they think it won’t harm the tree. treat her in a way I wouldn’t treat my
Pakuranga Baptist is one of about own grandmother?”
65 kindergartens and 190 schools It may not be grand or headline- 4
across Auckland signed up to the making, but education programmes
Enviroschools programme, a national like the ones taking place at
scheme that Auckland Council co- Pakuranga Baptist kindy and right old, and her class was tasked with
ordinates in the region. One of its aims across Auckland may be our most tracing the lifecycle of leaves, placing
is instilling the idea of kaitiakitanga, or effective method of addressing the them on the ground in order from
guardianship of the land. Jacqui Lees, world’s environmental problems. green, to yellow, to brown. The
Pakuranga Baptist’s kaiwhakahaere Throughout the city, there’s a growing experience was formative. “From
(organiser), says that’s come naturally recognition that teaching values such then on, everything I did was in
for her preschoolers during their walks. as kaitiakitanga to the young is just nature. I always played outside. We
She’s trying to take that connection as important as direct conservation always went on family trips to Tiritiri
one step further and encourage a action, if not more so. Organisations Matangi or the zoo and I was always
sense of whenuatanga, or belonging are realising it’s important to take the taking notes and drawing what I
to the land, being a part of the time to shape a better future as well saw,” she says. Now, when Bodley
environment. “They talk about, ‘How as improving the present. Here’s how turns up at the gardens, it’s to serve
do we take care of our place?’ Because Auckland Council is helping to breed the 1.2 million annual visitors in
it is our place,” she says. a new generation of environmental her role as a botanic records and
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Mostly the children see the trips heroes across three different spheres. conservation specialist. Often she
as entertainment. “I like to jump takes children through the same
in the puddles and get muddy,” Flora lesson she got when she was in
Micah, 4, says. “We can swing on Emma Bodley remembers the first primary school. “I feel like I’ve come
the ropes at the big tree, that’s really time she went to an education full circle,” she says.
fun,” adds his classmate Reuben, programme at the Auckland Botanic Botanic gardens education
4. But there are signs the forays Gardens. She was five or six years manager Julia Watson says Bodley
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Nature education sows the seeds of
environmentalism in the minds of
our nation’s children through events
such as planting days (1), visits to
Auckland Zoo (2 & 3) and the Auckland
Botanic Gardens (4), and bush walks
as undertaken by pupils of Pakuranga
Baptist Kindergarten (5).
Fauna
Last year, more than 715,000 people
5 walked through the gates of Auckland
Zoo – one of the jewels in the crown
of Auckland Council. Kevin Buley,
isn’t alone. She often hears from you’re in – it actually influences you the zoo’s director, knows a lot of folk
people whose childhood trips to later in life,” Watson says. make the trip to Western Springs
the 64ha gardens in Manurewa Watson’s job is running the for entertainment, but he places
– which are home to more than gardens’ suite of education Auckland Zoo at the centre of the
10,000 plants and, like Auckland programmes, including the school city’s ecological transformation.
Zoo, are currently undergoing curriculum-based Learning Through Part of that mission is walking the
major redevelopment – left a Experience and Education for environmental talk. The zoo has been
lasting impression. Some just Sustainability, which encourages kids carbon zero-accredited for two years,
developed a flair for horticulture. to think and act in ways that will has stopped using disposable cups or
Others became deeply invested safeguard the future wellbeing of plastic bags and doesn’t sell products
in environmentalism. (And the people and the planet. The success with palm oil. Buley sees those moves
gardens’ education service is not just of that mission always comes back as modelling cultural change before
for kids: there are also experts on to fostering a sense that we are all in it becomes mainstream. “Eight years
hand for those who need guidance some sense part of the environment, ago, we stopped using plastic bags
on gardening or growing food.) intricately connected to it and here at the zoo, and now we’ve
“There’s a lot of research that responsible for its health, she says. stopped using plastic bags across
when you have these experiences “The future is a heavy burden but it the entire country. That’s planting a
when you’re in touch with nature and does rely on our young people caring seed and watching it grow in terms
you’re actually doing something that for the planet. And you can only of environmental influence – and
shows you care for the environment care if you’ve actually spent time in putting pressure on governments and
– that you’re part of the environment nature, valuing nature.” large corporations.”
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environmentalism. There were Water
51,871 conservation education visits Most people know Sustainable
to the zoo last year. Nearly 4000 Coastlines for its work plucking
students from 29 decile 0-3 schools rubbish out of the Hauraki Gulf. The
in Auckland and Northland attended organisation was launched around
free Zoofari education sessions. 10 years ago with an event at Aotea /
Another 2757 students attended a Great Barrier Island, where hundreds
conservation education outreach of volunteers – including pupils from
course on which they slept under lower-decile schools – collected 2.8
canvas on Tāwharanui Beach, east of tonnes of rubbish. Since then, it’s
Warkworth, and went out at night to organised dozens of large-scale clean-
6 spot kiwi by torchlight. Meanwhile, ups – and planted more than 100,000
placards around the zoo grounds trees – around the country.
deliver practical conservation tips. Auckland Council’s own research
He also sees the zoo providing a These programmes are at least as suggests clean beaches and
vital green outpost in an increasingly vital as the “intensive” conservation waterways are ranked first when it
urbanised Auckland. Island bird work carried out by zoo staff, Buley comes to enjoyment of the city. So
sanctuaries such as Tiritiri Matangi says. Environmental transformation it’s not surprising that the rubbish
can take only limited numbers of can’t be achieved by a few collections generate so much
visitors, and the zoo should be a specialists, he believes. Instead, he publicity. But Sustainable Coastlines
place where people can connect hopes that change is the result of co-founder Camden Howitt says
with nature sustainably as the city’s thousands of everyday actions from cleaning up beaches and waterways
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population grows to an expected people who’ve been influenced by isn’t the most important part of
two million people by 2030, he their trips to places like the zoo, the organisation’s work. Even from
says. “We can’t expect everybody even if they went only to see the that first operation on Great Barrier,
to be able to experience our wildlife lions. “Auckland Zoo on its own is educating people and fostering closer
on our offshore islands. It needs not going to save the world. It’s not connections to nature have been
to be the zoo experience and going to guarantee the future of at the heart of its mission, he says,
also, really importantly, enriching New Zealand’s wildlife. But those and, since it began, it has shared its
the environment in our local who visit Auckland Zoo, who engage presentations to well over 200,000
neighbourhoods and encouraging with us and our wildlife, who take people. “I think the best way to put
wildlife back into those spaces.” on board our advocacy messages that is that if all you do is clean up,
Many of the zoo’s programmes and engage with us in conservation then all you’ll ever do is clean up. The
are now focused on facilitating action, will absolutely provide analogy is if you’ve plugged in the
that grassroots neighbourhood fundamental change.” bath and left the tap running and the
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There’s growing recognition that teaching
children values such as kaitiakitanga by
getting them involved in planting days
(6), Sustainable Coastlines clean-ups (7
& 10) and nature walks (8 & 9) is just as
important as direct conservation action.
8
water’s overflowing all through your
house, you don’t get the mop out and
just keep mopping up. You go and you
turn off the tap.”
For Howitt, turning off the tap
means giving people strategies to
live more sustainably and produce
less waste. Without that, Sustainable
Coastlines would keep going to the
same beaches to clear the same waste
products, he says. Two years ago,
it opened its education centre, The 10
Flagship, at Wynyard Quarter in an
attempt to show people – particularly
children – how they can live in a way out free water-quality testing kits to For evidence of the profound
that’s kinder to their local waterways. help individuals or groups care for sense of connection being in nature
Auckland Council’s urban regeneration their local freshwater streams. Council can instil, look to the children of
agency, Panuku, owns the land the Healthy Waters Specialist Gabi Ezeta Pakuranga Baptist kindy. They
centre occupies and helped the says the programme addresses two recently travelled to the nearby
charity to bring the idea to life. At its of the biggest problems facing efforts maunga, Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon
launch, Panuku Place Making Manager to improve Auckland’s water quality: Mountain. Jacqui Lees says the class
Frith Walker said the permanent people’s lack of knowledge of how made their own story explaining
structure was a perfect fit for the area their actions affect waterways, and the special trip. In their minds,
given Wynyard Quarter’s focus on the feeling they can’t do anything Ōhuiarangi was lonely. She (the
sustainable design, “because we don’t to address the issue. “Humans maunga) wanted to sit on a swing
want to just keep cleaning up, we want have a very strong connection to with a child on her lap, but couldn’t
to restore, protect and eventually water, mainly because we can’t live move anymore. So Ōhuiarangi called
regenerate this environment that without it. However, there is a lack out for the children to visit her.
humans have degraded”. of understanding of how our daily When they got there, they climbed
Howitt says the core focus is activities can affect the quality of up her face and did roly-polys down
to provide education that creates the water, and learning about this again. “This tickled Ōhuiarangi and
environmental behaviour change. from an early age will help children now they have a relationship with
A focus on empowering people is make the right decisions and her,” Lees says.
also at the heart of Wai Care’s work. empower them to be guardians of our “She is our mountain. She loves us
The Auckland Council initiative gives waterways when they grow up.” and we love her.”
MAHURU SEPTEMBER 2019 23WHAT’S ON?
HĪKOIA TE KŌRERO –
WALK THE TALK
THU 12 SEP, 10AM-3PM
(HĪKOI STARTS 11AM)
FREE
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EVENTS AND HUNDREDS MORE, AND TO SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY E-NEWS Māori and hīkoi (walk) up
the iconic Maungakiekie /
One Tree Hill for Te Wiki
o te Reo Māori (Māori
Language Week). Enjoy a
day of celebration on the
precious tūpuna maunga
(ancestral mountain) with
live music, stalls and a
sausage sizzle. Proudly
supported by Te Kaunihera
o Tāmaki Makaurau
(Auckland Council), Te Taura
Whiri i te Reo Māori, the
Tūpuna Maunga Authority
and Tūpuna Taonga Trust.
Maungakiekie / One Tree
Hill, Epsom
FRANKLIN ARTS FESTIVAL
31 AUG - 8 SEP, 9.30AM-
4.30PM DAILY (8 SEP,
CLOSES 1PM) $7
Franklin Arts Festival is an
annual celebration of visual
arts held in Pukekohe.
Commemorating its 30th
VOYAGE TO AOTEAROA: TUPAIA AND THE ENDEAVOUR anniversary this year, the
13 SEP - 15 MAR, 10AM-5PM DAILY FREE festival hosts hundreds of
artworks by talented New
Enter the world of Tupaia, a Tahitian high priest, navigator and artist. Journey with him on Zealand artists from all
Captain Cook’s Endeavour from Tahiti to Aotearoa in 1769. On this Pacific adventure, you’ll see walks of life. Pukekohe Town
encounters between tangata whenua and the crew, sail around the Society Islands, experience Hall & The Franklin Arts
life as a sailor and chart the coastline of Aotearoa. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell Centre, Pukekohe
WTF!? @ MOTAT MOON FESTIVAL
SAT 7 SEP, 7PM-11PM SAT 14 SEP, 4PM-9PM
Adult $20, student/ FREE
concession $15 (R18)
Enjoy an evening of culture
This R18 night out will and tradition celebrating
obliterate your quaint the full moon at this
childhood memories outdoor family festival.
of visits to MOTAT and Presented by Howick Local
blow you away with a Board in association with
line-up of entertainment the Pakuranga Chinese
spanning the most Association, it will feature
extreme, confronting, performances from a range
exhibitionist and avant- of cultures, plus food and
garde edges. MOTAT, craft stalls. Lloyd Elsmore
Western Springs Park, Pakuranga
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Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa / Conservation Week from
14-22 September aims to inspire New Zealanders
to do their bit to protect the environment. With
more than 4000 species threatened or at risk, it’s
more important than ever to do something to
create change. You can start in your own backyard
by planting natives, pulling out weeds and trapping
pests. You can also donate to environmental
causes. But if you want to join in the fun with
fellow nature-lovers, here are some of the Auckland
events:
Centennial Park, Campbells Bay: Meet the
Centennial Park Bush Society volunteers, take
a guided walk with an Auckland Council ranger
through the reserve and stick around after the walk
for a barbecue. Wed 18 Sep, 10am-12.30pm (guided
ŌTĀHUHU FOOD FESTIVAL
walk only, 10am-noon).
SAT 28 SEP, 10AM-4PM FREE
Clevedon Scenic Reserve: Take a guided walk with
Auckland’s biggest street-food festival will have more a council ranger through the reserve forest and
than 150 stalls, trucks and caravans with food from wetland area, and look inside the historic Camp
around the world, plus performances from well-known Sladdin Scout building (Conservation Week was
Kiwi artists. Great South Road, Ōtāhuhu started 50 years ago by the Scout Association).
Thurs 19 Sep, 10am-1pm (guided walk only, 10am-
noon).
Hunua Ranges: Head into the ranges with council
rangers and you might spot a kōkako. One walk
FRANKLIN ARTS FESTIVAL PHOTO / NANSI THOMPSON
will be 3-4 hours long and the other 1½-2 hours
long on easier terrain. Fri 20 Sep and Sat 21 Sep,
estimated start time 7.30am. (Rain date Sun 22
Sep.) The intention will be to continue these guided
walks on a regular basis after Conservation Week.
Community plantings: Get your gumboots on
and dig in at these locations (all 10am starts).
Braemar Reserve, Castor Bay, and Harania Reserve,
Favona, Sun 15 Sep; Barbados Reserve, Rosedale,
Tues 17 Sep; Trimdon Street Reserve, Randwick
Park, Wed 18 & Sat 21 Sep; Waiuku Estuary,
Waiuku, Sat 21 Sep.
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