Position: kairangahau Māori, consultant and trustee Fields: Co-director Swamp Frog and Environmental Tree Consultants Ltd; National Wetland Trust (NZ) Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman (Te Atihaunui a Papārangi,...

Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman is involved in research focused on the activity of whitebaiting. Whitebait are a very popular eating fish, and many people participate in the...

Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman tells us why we need to consider the function of exotic trees during repo restoration. Jargon alert: PB3 is a planter bag made...

Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman talks about the similarities between biodiversity and whakapapa from her Māori perspective. null

Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman says that the wet, boggy places you see along the Waikato River as you drive north of Huntly towards the Bombay Hills...

Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman describes the return of the Maurea Islands to iwi. She highlights the ecological importance of the river islands and the need to...

Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman explains why some plants are considered pest plants within the Waikato River catchment. These plants invade the catchment area and often compete...

Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman explains why wetlands are important for the health and wellbeing of the Waikato River. She likens wetlands to the function of kidneys...

Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman discusses the problem with culverts that disconnect habitats of fish from the main river. She describes the use of fish ramps and...

Researcher and project manager Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman describes some of the projects taking place in Whangamarino Wetland. Scholarship students have been given the opportunity to work...

Whitebait is a food delicacy for many people. Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman talks about the five different species of fish that make up whitebait – inanga,...

Ruru (morepork) whakapapa to wetlands as well as dense forests. Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman explains their repo connections. Questions for discussion: How was the connection between the...

Six Waikato River islands were returned to Waikato-Tainui through the 2010 Waikato River Settlement. Researcher Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman (working for Waikato Raupatu River Trust) focuses on...

Wetland restoration is more than simply planting the wet margins between the land and water. Rob McGowan and Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman discuss the importance of pausing...

A cultural indicator is a tohu, a marker or signpost for Māori, developed from localised knowledge. Wetland plant and animal species can be cultural indicators. Kairangahau...

Wetlands are ‘in between’ areas – they are permanently or intermittently wet areas on the margins of drier land or along the margins of water bodies...

This collection of resources started when Jonathan Kilgour from the Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development approached the Science Learning Hub to develop an education resource...

Have you been outside at night and heard the call of ruru, or maybe it sounds more like morepork to you? Ninox novae-zelandiae, the ruru or...

The ruru (morepork, Ninox novae-zelandiae) is not an animal we normally associate with repo – wetlands. We are more likely to hear their haunting calls coming...

Yvonne Taura is a kairangahau Māori, a kaupapa Māori researcher specialising in freshwater science, iwi environmental management and science communication. He mihi Ko Mauao te maunga...

Wetlands once occupied nearly 10% of Aotearoa New Zealand’s land cover. In the last 150 years, 90% of these wetlands have been drained or degraded. Fortunately,...

Wetland habitats are diverse places. They support an enormous range of animals from microscopic communities to some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest birds. Zooplankton – the...

He mea whakahaere tēnei mātaitanga ki Te Pūaha o Waikato, engari he tauira pai hei whakaatu me pēhea te tūhura me te whakaora ake i ētahi...

Ko te mahi matua ina whakaorangia tētahi repo, ko te whakakore atu i ngā tipu me ngā taru ‘whakararuraru’ (ko te nuinga hoki o ēnei, he...