A group of people looking at a wetland at Hapua, Tauweru

Restoration Day Field Trip

20 May 2022

A field trip was held at Taueru with the theme “Rural Restoration – on farm native planting, wetland restoration and thinking of the wider catchment”.

Students from Opaki School planting at Dunvegan Station, Wairarapa

Dunvegan Calling

7 May 2022

Opaki School student volunteers plant over 200 native trees in a lowland native forest block on Dunvegan Station, owned by Mike Wyeth.

Rathkeale College student Carlo Isaac plants a kowhai as part of a school planting activity

Funding Opens Doors To More Schools

14 April 2022

In the three years since it was founded, the Ruamahanga Restoration Trust has successfully raised over $160,000 for schools and local community groups to use towards restoration plantings, predator control, water science kits, and a student conservation award prize.