Freshwater wetlands

Aim: Enhance native biodiversity and return kiwi and weka to the area

Activities: Pest control and legal protection

Parties involved: Local landowners

Recreation, aquatic and terrestrial habitat enhancement and water quality improvement

Activities: Weed control, fencing planting and silt traps

Parties involved: Local landowners, Waikato District Council, iwi, Recreation users and Fish and Game, Waikato Regional Council

Restore the lake into a healthy wetland lake environment

Activities: Weed control, pest control, fencing and planting

Parties involved: Landowners, DOC and  Waikato Regional Council

Re-vegetate the entrance of the Kauaeranga Valley with native trees.

Activities: Weed control and planting

Parties involved: Landowners

To protect and enhance the ngahere-awa-moana and all living creatures that live within it from pests and apply matauranga Maori to the kaitiaki of the whenua awa and moana

Activities: Weed control pest control fencing and planting

Parties involved: Schools iwi, local landowners researchers

Plant  kowhai trees around the area  and develop the Te Otamanui Walkway in the Te Otamanui lagoon west of Te Kowhai

Activities: Weed control, fencing planting, easements and legal protection and board walks

Parties involved: Landowners

Riparian planting of lake margins and  weeding Huihuitaha wetland

Activities: Riparian planting and weed control

Parties involved: Trustees, Businesses and Schools who attend working bees

To enhance  the wetland as a habitat for birdlife

Activities: Weed control, animal pest control and planting

Parties involved: Fish and Game, shooters and DOC