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Pūniu River Care (Freshwater Improvement Fund)

Connecting local whānau with restoring the mauri of the Pūniu River catchment has created 30 jobs in the Waikato town of Te Awamutu. Pūniu River Care Inc. (PRC) is a marae-based restoration group that has planted 137,000 eco-sourced trees, including manuka, whanake, karamu and harakeke to restore the health of their awa, puna and repo! Find out more about their mahi here: https://puniuinc.org/ We are proud to support this kaupapa through our Freshwater Improvement Fund. Full Transcript: The kaupapa is first and foremost about restoring our awa, and Pūniu River Care is the waka that enables mana whenua, tangata whenua to be involved in that process through meaningful employment. We've just loaded up the trailer for an order down in Te Kuiti. These are our whanake. What makes us different from a commercial business is that we're tikanga driven. Everything we do has a wairua component. So it's more than just about growing and planting trees, although we do that very, very well, it's about how we do our mahi and ensuring we live our mahi as well. Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Awa o Pūniu project is a 5 year project, and we are currently in year three. Our aim and goal is to plant 40,000-50,000 trees per year. Currently the total trees planted is 137,000. We're planting a bit of Manuka, Whanake, Karamu, and Harakeke, and a couple of different grass species. Through the relationship we've created with the Waikato Regional Council and landowners, it's meant that we've been able to plant 23 properties. All in all they've been pretty forthcoming with letting us plant along their properties. It's meant that we're one step closer to reaching our total goal of fencing 32-kilometres along the Puniu River. We are very passionate about what we do and that drives us, there's a big meaning behind the kaupapa. We have uncle in the kauta, who, they go out and collect our seed. And then that kākano is brought back here to Mangatoatoa, where we nurture it and raise it before it will go out onto its own to become a rangatira and then start that process again. The Ministry for the Environment's Freshwater Improvement Fund - they've supported us by providing us $740,000 over a 5 year period. That went towards expanding our nursery. There's 30 people employed here, we've got so many more trees out on the awa. I think the overall purpose of the project is to enable Kaitiakitanga to occur here. So the bigger picture here is for the whanau to feel proud in what we're achieving along our awa and to feel part of it.