Events
Community catch-ups, planting days, water monitoring and campaigns. Dates are announced on Facebook and by newsletter.
Upcoming
Fishing competition
Turn up, wet a line, and help put invasive koi carp to good use. This is a fundraiser for restoration work in the Waikare–Whangamarino catchment, with prizes, food and a great crowd.
Bird of the Year 2026
Whangamarino Wetland is one of the core sites for the endangered Australasian bittern — matuku-hūrepo — and home to the largest bittern population in Aotearoa. That is why WWWR is voting for it in Bird of the Year 2026. As our team puts it, this is TK’s bird — a taonga worth raising our voices for.
How to vote
Shared by Piako Waihou Catchment Trust. Thanks to The Forest Bridge Trust, Love Bittern, Matuku Link, Vote for Matuku, and everyone else backing the bittern.
Vote for Matuku-hūrepoMore events
An open evening on the Action Plan — what’s funded, what isn’t, and where you can help.
Date to be announced
Get natives in the ground along a lake margin. Bring boots and gloves; we’ll bring the plants.
Date to be announced
Join a sampling run and learn how the readings are taken and what they tell us.
Date to be announced