Te Kūwaha and Māori

Dairy farms produce milk and milk products that supply both the domestic and the overseas export markets.

Ngā Waihotanga Iho, the estuarine monitoring toolkit for Iwi, has been developed to provide tangata whenua with tools to measure environmental changes in their estuaries. While Ngā Waihotanga Iho is based on sound science principles, it is also underpinned by tangata whenua values.

Using a collaborative case study approach, the aim of this project is to assist tangata whenua to bring together different, yet complementary knowledge systems - distinct Māori knowledge and conventional fisheries and ecosystem information.

NIWA is constantly developing new tools and resources for use by specific stakeholders, communities, and schools.

Māori worldviews are based on centuries of observation and anticipation of their physical and social environment and can be used to inform a wide variety of environmental research.

Tau koura was the favourite traditional fishing method for harvesting lake koura and involved resting bundles of bracken fern fronds on the lake bed for koura to take refuge in and then retrieving the bundles into a canoe to harvest the koura.

New Zealand lakes and ponds often have large populations of koura or freshwater crayfish.