In October, local farmer-led catchment collective Tukituki Land Care (TLC) launched Hawke’s Bay’s first-ever predator trap library, giving Tukituki farmers access to more than 500 free-to-borrow traps to help control predators across the catchment. The project aims to reduce numbers of mustelids, rats, hedgehogs, and possums to boost native biodiversity, support wetland and bush regeneration, and limit the spread of diseases that can affect livestock. The launch event in Onga

Central Hawke’s Bay farmer-led catchment collective Tukituki Land Care (TLC) has launched a major new project to tackle erosion-prone hill country in the Tukituki catchment, as part of the Hawke’s Bay Land for Life initiative - a partnership between Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC), the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and The Nature Conservancy Aotearoa New Zealand (TNC NZ). The TLC High Risk Erosion Action Plan targets four key sub-catchments - Mangamahaki, Mangarar

For more than three decades, Steve Treseder has been working to environmentally enhance a sheep and beef property in the lower...

The Mangarara Stream, a winding tributary east of Patangata Bridge, is the focus of a determined community effort to tackle one of New...

Central Hawke’s Bay’s farmer-led catchment collective, Tukituki Land Care (TLC), has recently completed a six-month project to produce...

Last week, local catchment collective, Tukituki Land Care (TLC), teamed up with enthusiastic seniors from Omakere School to plant native...

Tukituki Land Care (TLC), a Central Hawke’s Bay catchment collective, is embarking on an ambitious initiative to develop independent,...

Richard Hilson, chair of the Central Hawke’s Bay catchment collective, Tukituki Land Care (TLC), recently addressed 37 leaders from...

Farmers encouraged to consider starting their own pole nursery