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Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Wairarapa Moana Wetlands Project is inviting the community to Lake Domain, on the Northern shores of Lake Wairarapa, on Sunday 21 March for a free event featuring live music, interactive artworks and the chance to discover creatures that live in the waters of Wairarapa Moana. ‘Whakarongo ki te taiao – Feeling the land’s rhythms’ is a community event celebrating Wairarapa Moana’s recognition as an ‘internationally significant’ wetland under the Ramsar Convention. The recognition, which was announced in August last year, was we...

A total of 12,850 native plants were planted at Lake Domain over last winter as part of three separate projects. The restoration work was part of the Wairarapa Moana Wetlands Project, which was a collaboration between Greater Wellington Regional Council, the Department of Conservation, South Wairarapa District Council, Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, and Rangitāne o Wairarapa. supplied/Stuff Many of the newly planted trees at Featherston's Lake Domain have died. “It is fun to plant the seedlings, but it is a huge job to keep them alive, and they don't survive in sandy ground in their first summ...

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 Wairara...