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Lake survey reveals worrying results 12:30 PM Thursday Feb 18, 2021 Niwa freshwater ecologist Mark Fenwick [second on right], with a kakahi in his hand, talking with some citizen scientists at Lake Wairarapa during Sunday’s monitoring. PHOTOS/PETE MONK WALT DICKSON With all of Lake Wairarapa to play in, it can be a lonely life for a juvenile kakahi, the native New Zealand freshwater mussel. While there are plenty of the adult mollusc living on the lake bed, juveniles are few, and it is cause for concern. This year’s annual kakahi monitoring survey day at Lake Domain Reserve in the Wairarapa recorded reasonable numbers of adult kakahi, but not a single juvenile. ....
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 4:40 pm With all of Lake Wairarapa to play in, it can be a lonely life for a juvenile kākahi, the native New Zealand freshwater mussel. While there are plenty of the adult mollusc living on the lake bed, juveniles are few, and it is cause for concern. This year’s annual kākahi monitoring survey day at Lake Domain Reserve in the Wairarapa recorded reasonable numbers of adult kākahi, but not a single juvenile. The kākahi monitoring programme, now in its seventh year, is one of a number of projects underway at Lake Wairarapa as part of the Wairarapa ....
Wetland work boost for Wairarapa mana 02 Feb 2021 11:39 AM More Related Stories Related Podcast The Government has marked World Wetlands Day by highlighting efforts to restore the internationally recognised Wairarapa Moana wetlands. The work is being funded by $3.5 million from the Environment Ministry’s Jobs for Nature fund, about $1 million from the Greater Wellington Council and a smaller sum from the Department of Conservation. Project lead Kereana Sims from the council says as well as creating jobs, the project is about restoring mana to hapū and iwi. About 30 jobs will be created over the next five years to restore at least 30 hectares of wetland through indigenous planting, and to control pests across 1000 hectares of wetlands and surrounding land. ....