February 2017 The WWF Habitat Protection Fund has allowed us to plant natives alongside the wetlands and entrance to the proposed walking track to Gus’s Pond, which is a key habitat for Canterbury Mudfish in the Lower Waitaki. The WWF funding has now all been spent and the final report submitted. 1200 eco-sourced plants were…
WWF WAITAKI WETLAND PLANTING DAYS 27th MAY AND 11th JUNE Our funding from the WWF habitat fund has been fully spent, with extensive weed clearance and site preparation at what will be the start of the walkway to Gus’s Pond. Although we initially planned to have the planting day on the 28th, we received a…
Some images from the presentation about mudfish by the LWRMS coordinator and Debbie Eddington (ECan) (with assistance from teacher trainee Alex Ghaemaghamy) to students at Waitaki Valley School on the 9th of June.
May has brought the first of the winter snow to the hills, and several hard frost have been felt inland. Further to the coast the frost have been milder, and the ground still retains a bit of warmth. A major achievement of the mudfish project this month has been the awarding of funding from the Ministry…
Here’s the poster for the planting days that are coming up soon. Please share this information with others you think might be interested. There is a downloadable and printable pdf of the poster here too.
And now we have the video of the day….
On the 4th of April 2016 the Lower Waitaki River Management Society hosted a Fieldtrip for the student of Papakaio School. Although early morning rain threatened a wet start, by sunrise the day was clear with a light southerly, and the volunteers met at the Waitaki Bridge Hall for a 9am rendezvous. The first bus…
On the 10th and 11th of March 2016 Max Crowe, the LWRMS mudfish project coordinator visited Papakaio School, along with Debbie Eddington, the Environment Canterbury Youth Engagement Advisor. The purpose of these visits was to get in front of students and launch the LWRMS mudfish education program. The theme of the project was habitat –…
Vehicles on the SH1 bridge over the last week will have seen a flurry of activity on the North Bank of the Waitaki River. In a culmination of 4 years of planning and consultation, the Lower Waitaki River Management Society is pleased to announce the opening of the new boat ramp access point into the…
Saturday January 24th marked the first day of on-the-ground work for the LWRMS habitat enhancement project. The site chosen for the day was the fenced off area of conservation land at the State Highway 1 Bridge on the South Bank of the Waitaki River. Step one: Gorse grubbing. Exotic weeds are a real pest, and not…
Welcome to LWRMSblog, a new blog for the Lower Waitaki River Management Society Inc. This is the place where updates will be posted about LWRMS activities in and around the Lower Waitaki River, particularly our work for the conservation of the southern sub-population of Canterbury Mudfish (Neochanna burrowsius). This species is Critically Threatened, and has…
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