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20-23 GREEN SHOOTS CONTACT US Planting the seeds of kaitiakitanga in the next Auckland Council generation aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 09 301 0101 (24/7) aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/ contactus 04 Auckland Council, Private THE BRIEFING Bag 92300, Auckland 1142 Information and inspiration facebook.com/aklcouncil from Council HQ twitter.com/aklcouncil About OurAuckland 05 OurAuckland keeps you POWER UP up to date with council Pushing for sustainability services, projects and events and helps to fulfil our legislative obligations to 08-09 keep Aucklanders informed. IN YOUR We conduct regular research NEIGHBOURHOOD to ensure OurAuckland is an What’s hot and happening efficient way of doing this. in your area Te reo Māori We’re proud to use te reo Māori in OurAuckland. If you come across a word you don’t know, you can learn what it means at maoridictionary.co.nz OurAuckland ourauckland@ aucklandcouncil.govt.nz ourauckland.nz Subscribe to OurAuckland e-newsletter at 12-13 24-28 ourauckland.nz/enews CONNECTING THE DOTS WHAT’S ON Disclaimer The strategy behind Pest Festivals, shows, sport, free OurAuckland includes paid Free Auckland 2050 events and more advertising, in addition to Auckland Council editorial content. While Auckland 10 14-18 30 Council appreciates the IT'S COOL TO KŌRERO GUIDING LIGHTS SEE HERE NOW support of advertisers in We can all do our bit to Learning from Auckland’s Our beautiful beaches, helping to pay for production strengthen te reo Māori environmental heroes bays, birds and bush of OurAuckland, the inclusion of any specific advertisement is not an official endorsement or across the Auckland region. recommendation of that NEED TO KNOW Aside from the mayoral advertiser’s products or race, 20 councillors will be services by Auckland Council. Rock the vote elected to represent the 13 Published by Bauer Media in Voting in the local elections wards. A further 149 local partnership with Auckland starts on 20 September representatives will be Council. For advertising and ends at midday elected across the 21 local enquiries email advertising@ on 12 October. Voting boards. bauermedia.co.nz. Printed by Webstar using documents will be sent to Information about each of sustainably sourced paper. all enrolled voters between the candidates can be found 20 September and 25 on the elections website, September. A total of 170 voteauckland.co.nz.

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INFORMATION AND INSPIRATION FROM AUCKLAND COUNCIL HQ SPLASHING OUT Applications for paid summer lifeguard positions at Auckland Council pools throughout the region open on 1 September. If you’re a confident swimmer with effective communication skills and an interest in community wellbeing, this is the role for you, and it could open the door to a career in the sports and leisure industry. You’ll receive on-the-job training and work with a team of passionate people in a fun and inspiring environment. Working as a summer lifeguard is a suitable job for anyone, regardless STAR GAZERS of age. Visit summerlife guards.aucklandcouncil. More than 1000 secondary finals, included multiple High School, whose original govt.nz to apply. school students entered competitors from talent song, Mad Men, was hugely Applications open 1 Auckland Council’s Stand Up hotspots Northcote and acclaimed. September and close on 29 Stand Out 2019 youth music Waitākere colleges and “Stand Up Stand Out September. and dance competition. Papatoetoe High School. represents what Auckland’s In August, some The best of the bunch now young talent can do,” says extraordinarily talented go on to compete for a Event Director Gene Rivers. singers, musicians and share of $6000 in prizes at “We’ve seen a number dancers took to the stage at the finals on 14 September, of performers go on to the Ōtara Music Arts Centre 3pm-6.30pm, at Vodafone professional careers in the for the heats and impressed Events Centre, Manukau. music industry.” this year’s judges, Bella Entry is free for all ages. The competition has been Kalolo, Cherie Mathieson, Talent returning to running for nearly 30 years Joash Fahitua and Diana Hu. compete in Stand Up Stand and has become Auckland’s The semi-finalists, who Out 2019 includes last premier music and dance competed on 19 and 20 year’s solo vocal winner, competition for secondary August for a chance at the Silika Isaia, from Papatoetoe school students. CLASS ACT Curtain Up! is a visual gain an understanding of the snapshot of Auckland importance of performance theatre from the 1950s to space to the success or the 1980s, a pivotal time in otherwise of theatre the city’s theatrical history. companies. On display will It explores the rise of be programmes, photos, professional drama with a posters, flyers and tickets New Zealand flavour from from Auckland Libraries’ its grassroots in community Heritage Collections. At and youth theatre. Discover the Central City Library

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Recycle andreuse. Buy locally @aklcouncil . Doing so contributes . Doingsocontributes . I made a submission . Imadeasubmission There are are There Grants given to 26 Auckland groups reopened in the Waitākere Ranges trees over 3m tall. Bycomparison, parks. Eight tracks have nowbeen biosecurity dogs check ferries and Sites aroundcity where Sites water the restore urban andrural waterways Hunua Rangesand other regional of tracks have beenmadekauri- vehicles heading to Hauraki Gulf and landowners who protect and plague skinks,stoatsand ferrets visitors to the Auckland Botanic Botanic visitors tothe Auckland quality isassessedevery month Auckland’s urbanarea featuring outlined in Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri,outlined islands in the hunt for rodents, The target for reducing carbon emissions in the cityby 2050, The extent of canopy cover in Eden Park’s No1 field is1.6ha safe in the Waitākere Ranges, the Auckland Climate Action Climate Action the Auckland 1.2 million Local parksmanagedby $360,000 NUMBERS 10,130ha Gardens each yearGardens Auckland Council BY THE MAHURU SEPTEMBER MAHURU SEPTEMBER 26km 26km Framework 3575 Zero 12 36

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IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD WHAKAMĀTAUHIA KIA MŌHIO KNOW / EXPERIENCE / CONSTRUCTION KICKS DOMINION ROAD OFF (ABOVE) MOON FESTIVAL The Karangahape Road Celebrate the new moon enhancement project with a night of dazzling is under way. It aims to colour, flavour and preserve the road’s unique performance at Potters Park, character while creating Saturday and Sunday 14 and a street environment 15 September, 5pm-9pm. that meets the needs of a Supported by Albert-Eden growing population. Stage Local Board, the Balmoral one between the cemetery Chinese Business Association and Upper Queen Street is and the Dominion Road expected to take around two TORO ATU VISIT / Business Association. months. at.govt.nz/projects ŌREWA MARKETS Treat yourself to quality products handmade from TĀKARO PLAY / TABLE new, recycled and upcycled TENNIS materials at the monthly Maungakiekie-Tāmaki artisan market at the Ōrewa Local Board recently gave Community Centre, 368 the Auckland Table Tennis Hibiscus Coast Highway. Association a small grant Open Sunday 29 September, to deliver the Tables in 9am-1pm. That’s also Communities Project. Keep the venue for the weekly an eye out for a table farmers’ market, which tennis table in a public hosts food stalls and offers spot near you and give the fresh produce for sale every

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SCHOOLING UP When Onehunga Primary School wanted to introduce a school- wide waste-minimisation project, it teamed up with EcoMatters Environment Trust’s Love Your Neighbourhood initiative. Waste Busters kicked off with a rubbish audit to determine exactly what the school’s current habits and waste needs were. It quickly became clear too much paper and compost was going to landfill. The solution was to fit out each room with specific bins and to introduce a recycling education plan. “Each classroom takes turns to check and empty the bins, and we found that this involvement helped keep everyone engaged,” says the school’s environmental leader, Jackie Arthur. “All 21 classrooms plus the administration block are taking part.”

BESTING THE PESTS As a young boy, Rob Zubielevitch (below) could name many New Zealand native birds and trees. Now retired, he is a dedicated volunteer who traps animal pests that threaten Omaha’s native wildlife. He says getting more people involved would enable pest numbers to be reduced over a larger area. The chance of reinvasion is reduced by Omaha being a peninsula. “It’s very satisfying seeing how bird life has increased over the last 18 months,” says Zubielevitch. “New birds we’ve seen are bellbirds, grey warblers and kākā. I love what I do. There has FOR MORE been tremendous success catching many OF YOUR LOCAL NEWS VISIT rats, stoats and weasels in traps placed OURAUCKLAND.NZ in several reserves.” Rodney Local Board funded the Omaha Peninsula Community Pest Free Plan to assist local residents to undertake a co-ordinated pest management initiative. Volunteers are needed and anyone interested should contact Community Park PROTECT AND SERVE Ranger Sinead Brimacombe via Auckland Council on 09 301 0101, or at sinead. VOLUNTEERS, LOCAL BOARD STEP UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT [email protected]. Over the past year, there has been a steady rise in the number of volunteers getting involved in environmental activities across the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area – from numerous planting and beach clean-up days, to initiatives to combat plant and animal pests. The largest coastal clean-up day involved more than 1500 volunteers from a dozen schools. Hundreds of helpers also cleaned up Takapuna and Milford beaches, Patuone Reserve and around Lake Pupuke. Community groups, clubs and schools have also helped to plant 3800 native plants in nine reserves. The local board has supported the environmental initiatives with funding and by providing equipment and native plants, removing rubbish and putting on barbecue lunches for volunteers. It also supports a number of pest plant and animal eradication schemes, including rat-control projects around Ngataringa and Shoal bays led by Forest and Bird, and similar work undertaken by the Waitematā Golf Club. See ourauckland.nz for a detailed list of groups working to improve the environment and the activities they’re involved in.

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1. Around 5000 people took part in Hīkoia te Kōrero events last year in Auckland Keeping up 2. The logo for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori wanted to do that, they enrolled me, too.” Now she does one night a with the korero¯ week, and although she isn’t fluent, she recently plucked up the courage Every New Zealander can help strengthen the Māori to have a kōrero with two Māori- language simply by using it. That’s the theme of this year’s speaking strangers in a bar. Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week, which Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau / kicks off on 9 September. Sam Button talked to three Auckland Council offers staff 10- week courses for beginners, and Aucklanders who have done their bit to revitalise te reo. there’s an app for them called Kete Kōrero. The council is also working In 1984, a Māori telephone operator able to share what I’ve learned with with mana whenua and local boards by the name of Naida Glavish found people in the same position I was.” on a programme called Te Kete herself embroiled in controversy He says Māori courses at the Rukuruku, which aims to add names because she used ‘kia ora’ to greet university are bursting at the seams. It’s significant to Māori to local parks callers to the Post Office, where she had waiting lists for the past two years. and community places. The council is worked. Chastised by her manager, Amy Norrish, from Mount Albert, also working with Te Taura Whiri i te who wanted English-only greetings, who undertook a course in Māori Reo Māori, Tūpuna Maunga Authority Glavish was almost fired, but at Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka and Tūpuna Taonga Trust to host support from around Aotearoa (and / Unitec last year, says it’s really Hīkoia te Kōrero on 12 September intervention by then-prime minister important as a New Zealander to at Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill. Robert Muldoon) saved her job and have a certain standard of reo. She This free event will see participants put the Māori greeting firmly in the signed up partly to set an example immerse themselves in the reo while spotlight. Now, Glavish is a dame, kia for her kids, aged 4 and 8. “I noticed walking up to and around the tihi ora is ubiquitous and the language I was even falling behind my young (summit), then come back down to is undergoing a revival supported by children. The Māori language they get stalls, a sausage sizzle and live music. both Māori and Pākehā. at kindergarten is quite amazing.” The Tūpuna maunga (ancestral “The language is unique to this course was an eye-opener, and not mountains) hold a paramount place place that we share as our home,” says just because of the subject. “When in historical, ancestral and cultural Hēmi Kelly, a Māori language lecturer we had the celebration at the end, I identity for Māori, and it will be a at Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau sat across from two much older Māori hugely historic moment to see te reo Rau / AUT University. “It’s in our place women who were talking about how Māori being celebrated at this place names, tree names and bird names. wonderful it was to see such a variety of significance. It’s more present than we sometimes of people there who thought it was Aotearoa has come a long way from realise. We have to sit back and go, important to learn.” the days of Post Office workers being ‘Actually, te reo Māori is everywhere.’” Numerous reo Māori courses are admonished for saying ‘kia ora’. But Kelly began learning te reo in high on offer in Tāmaki Makaurau, and there’s still a long way to go. And the school because he wanted to connect writer Alice Neville did one a few only way to keep te reo Māori alive is more to his own identity. “It grew into years back. “A few of my workmates to keep using it. As this year’s theme a love. I met others with the same enrolled in a course at Te Wānanga says, “Kia kaha te reo Māori / Let’s

passion, and now through teaching I’m o Aotearoa. When I said I’d always make the Māori language strong.” LOWE BRYAN

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Auckland is a region spaces (both public and private) to guides, pest traps and funding. surrounded by act as ‘stepping stones’ across the “The critical thing is to not individual sites region. But reaching this goal won’t delay. Do something: talk to of conservation just be up to the council; it will also your neighbours, take success. Purging require the city’s residents to make a action,” says Butland. islands and fenced commitment to conservation. “Talk to us. Send us reserves of pests and reintroducing an email [pestfree@ native flora and fauna have helped The growing community effort aucklandcouncil.govt. to regenerate many endangered “The critical thing here is actually the nz]; we’ll respond.” populations. But as long as these power of the collective,” Butland says. The council’s park rangers successes remain isolated from one “People may think, ‘What I do here regularly lead volunteer days another, the future of Auckland’s isn’t going to make a difference’, when at reserves, educational talks native taonga will hang in the balance. really that’s what matters.” and workshops, alongside the Brett Butland, Auckland Council’s Since the Pest Free Auckland Department of Conservation. These Pest Free Auckland 2050 programme programme was established in 2017, events can be found via the Auckland project director, believes the key to the number of community-powered Biodiversity Facebook page or the Pest protecting – and restoring – our native conservation groups the council Free Auckland 2050 newsletter. biodiversity over the next 30 years lies works with has risen well into the Naturespace.org.nz can also put you in encouraging a pest-free “mosaic of thousands. They come from all over: in touch with community-led groups. connected habitats” across the region “Rural, urban, on the islands, east – on islands and the mainland. coast, west coast – you name it, it’s Adding your link to the chain Council and community sanctuary happening.” And they vary in scope Whether your garden is in one of the partnerships, such as Tāwharanui and and focus – from predator trapping, corridors indicated on the map or not, Shakespear regional parks, are weed eradication and native planting, restoring Auckland’s native ecosystem triumphs of preservation. And, with to the preservation of individual wherever possible is of immeasurable pest-free island reserves in the species. The results are heartening. value to the collective effort. The Hauraki Gulf, such as Tiritiri Matangi Wētā populations in the Manukau council has a straightforward and well- and Rangitoto, the foundations for a lowlands are on the rise following supported three-step guide to helping. large-scale regeneration of Auckland’s pest-control activities and installations Place traps to eradicate pests. The ecosystem are already there. The of ‘weta motels’; kākā – generally council recommends people attend obstacle, Butland says, is that “a great heard before they’re seen – have been one of its informative events or get number of our species don’t travel very found in Northcote, Kohimarama, in contact before they start trapping. far. So, the need for a more connected Waitākere, Drury and even as centrally Predatorfreenz.org offers a useful habitat is crucial. In the past, we have as Cornwall Park; korimako (bellbirds) range of traps for purchase. seen birds and invertebrates begin to have been reported in Ōrākei; and Pull weeds that restrict biodiversity. successfully spread out from [pest- even pekapeka (long-tailed bats), Attend council-run events or visit free] reserves, only to be predated which are classed as ‘nationally weedbusters.org.nz to learn about upon and curtailed.” critical’, have been seen from harmful weeds. The solution is to create expansive Patumahoe to Henderson. Plant natives: A crucial step in ‘green corridors’ between the existing encouraging native fauna to inhabit successful reserves to facilitate the Getting involved your garden. Weedbusters.org.nz also migration and population growth The council is committed to offers an invaluable guide to native of our native fauna. The council is supporting community conservation plants and what wildlife they will working with others to establish a groups willing to help the cause. It encourage in its Plant Me

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IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OURAUCKLAND.GOVT.NZ/ PESTFREEAKL VALERIE TERAITUA is the kaiwhakahaere at GUIDING Papatūānuku Kokiri Marae. It has been zero waste for six years, sourcing much of its food from organic gardens LIGHTS on its grounds. How did you become zero waste? We all need heroes to inspire us. The following We’ve been part of the Para Kore Ki Aucklanders are doing just that in an effort to protect Tāmaki Makaurau [which works with marae to reduce waste], but we’ve also the environment, now and in the future. Here are been supported by Auckland Council’s their stories, and their top tips for reducing waste minimisation fund to help your environmental impact. educate people who come through our marae to become sustainable.

What does being zero waste involve? Papatūānuku is Mother Earth, so it’s about being able to connect with our sustainable model of te oranga tonu tanga, or wellbeing. We have our gardens, where we do lots of composting. We also grow food with no toxins or fertilisers or pesticides, so we’re an organic field. It’s also about the way we purchase things when we’re providing hospitality. So it’s ‘do we need to buy that? Can we buy in bulk to reduce the amount of waste?’ Everything is either reusable or recyclable. It’s about being protectors of the whenua, guardians of the land. SHAY BRAZIER is a solar engineer and one of the owners of a We show people that and share the Zero Energy House in Western Springs. mātauranga, or knowledge.

The team behind How do you achieve zero energy and What are your top environmental tips? the Zero Energy a home that doesn't need heating? 1. Stop using plastic bags. Come to the House documented The home is designed to capture the marae and learn how to make a pēke. its construction at zero sun’s energy and ensure it is not lost. energyhouse.co.nz and provide regular This involves orienting the building 2. We encourage whānau to grow updates on how much renewable and glazing to the north, insulating their own little gardens with whatever energy it produces. 50 per cent over building code resources they have. You can grow and investing in high-performance inside in little plastic bottles. You can What’s the history of the windows/glazing. Also, we use solar grow on your front porch. Wherever the Zero Energy House? systems to generate hot water and sun is. You can grow kai anywhere. We wanted to demonstrate it was electricity. possible to build a home in Auckland 3. Buy in bulk. Go to places where you that was zero energy and did not Your top environmental tips? can take your own containers. Take need to be heated in order to be 1. Invest in design and the building your own reusable bags. Take your own warm, dry, healthy and comfortable envelope first. It is possible to build a boxes. And only buy what you need. year-round on an urban site. We home that is comfortable and healthy decided to publish the home’s design, all year around with no heating. A build and performance so others simple, compact and well-considered could understand what could be design can save money while achieved, and hopefully do the same providing an inspiring place to live. themselves. 2. Install low-flow shower heads (five Why was it an important project? litres a minute). They can save you Zero energy is a simple measurable thousands in water and energy bills outcome that people can easily while giving you an amazing shower. understand. At a design level it drives significant energy-efficiency measures 3. Get a timer for your heated towel if you want to achieve it in a cost- rail. One towel rail can use 10 per

effective way. cent of the average home’s electricity. GETTY IMAGES FARNWORTH, JAY

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ANNALILY VAN DEN BROEKE is part of a massive volunteer- led effort to restore a native forest block and wetland.

The 37ha Matuku People won’t care for what they don’t Link project in know, which is why we love it when Bethells Valley, people visit to help out and get a west Auckland, won first-hand experience of a wetland the Restoration Award at last year’s environment. We welcome everyone, Mayoral Conservation Awards. from individual volunteers to large business groups, international Why is the Matuku Link such an students to local Girl Guides. Since important ecological area? our start two and a half years ago, It links untouched kauri forest, a river we’ve had more than 2000 visitors valley, wetlands and the sea and is and volunteers help us, donating home to rare wetland birds such as time, money and expertise. Most the matuku (bittern), pāteke (brown people join us at our working bees on teal), pūweto (spotless crake), as well the third Sunday of the month, 10am as native eels. We have only nine per to 1pm, followed by a shared lunch cent of our wetlands left in Auckland, with hot soups and drinks. and we need people to start loving them; they just won’t show you our incredible swamps. They are not What are your top environmental tips? anymore. only the homes of those endangered 1. Buy a rat trap, learn how to use it native birds, they also filter water and get rid of pests. By taking out one 3. Come to one of our working bees. flowing to the sea, protecting it from rat, you can potentially prevent 1000 And even if you can’t do that, talk sediment build-up. They clean the new rats flooding our environment. to your neighbours about the value water, enhancing habitat for fish, and of trees for us humans (carbon sink, slow stormwater down to prevent 2. Keep your cat indoors. Cats bring water retention, shade, keeping the flooding of our homes and paddocks. back only a quarter of what they soil stable and preventing water catch. And they are very smart: if runoff taking the topsoil What are some of the benefits you don’t respond very happy when with it etc) and for you’ve seen from this being a they bring you a bird, they won’t, but our birds. Don’t FOR MORE volunteer-led restoration? it doesn’t mean they stop catching cut them down. ENVIRONMENTAL TIPS VISIT LIVELIGHTLY.NZ. AND TO TEST YOUR IMPACT ON THE PLANET BUUA REDFERN is the founder of South Auckland Young VISIT FUTUREFIT.NZ Environmentalists.

The SAYE group environmental action and local empowers youth government. Why is that so to have their say important? in environmental It’s crucial to educate and engage movements, hosting events and rangatahi on climate change as we workshops and finding volunteering are the generation that will have to opportunities. face its worst impacts. It’ll be our homes submerged, it’ll be us who What inspired you to start SAYE? have to adapt to the extreme and The spaces within environmental dangerous heat, it’ll be us trying to conversations don’t include many survive in a dying world. Educating Pasifika/Māori faces. These are our rangatahi enables them to engage the people most affected by with purpose, to understand, and environmental issues, yet we’re rarely then potentially make a change. sustainable is cheap and saves a included in discussions about them. lot of money. All you’re doing is Auckland has the largest Polynesian What are your top environmental tips? reusing what you have (bottles, population of any city on Earth, and 1. Don’t be scared. Want to ask the cups and clothes) instead of buying the majority of the Pacific people barista to use a Keep Cup instead of unnecessary plastic bottles and the here call south Auckland home. This one you’ll end up throwing away? latest fashions. is one of the reasons we wanted Do it. Want to make a change in your to target the youth within south school and start an environmental 3. Small changes are still changes. Auckland. People may say we’re being club or join one? Do it. Scared of Don’t stress yourself to change exclusive, but we’ve been excluded being judged for being an activist in your entire lifestyle to help save from these talks for so long. SAYE is front of your peers? Get new friends the environment, but going without just creating a platform for our voices and flaunt your passion. Fear restrains meat for a day every week or going to to be included. us from making that change we want volunteer at a clean-up every other to see. week will eventually accumulate into You’re also trying to bring the a significant change, even if it’s a voices of rangatahi to the fore in 2. Be frugal. Being environmentally small significant change.

MAHURU SEPTEMBER 2019 15 FRAZER DALE won the individual award at the Mayoral Conservation Awards last year.

Dale was honoured for his work with the Friends of Sunhill Scenic Reserve, a volunteer-led organisation that traps pests on land near Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, and also runs planting days, weeding bees and guided tours.

Tell us about your background in conservation and pest trapping. I manage the Outreach Conservation Education team for Auckland Zoo, which means I teach conservation skills to school students and their teachers. However, when I first started years just can’t survive with these your local community. Everyone four years ago, I didn’t know anything newly introduced pests. If we do needs to play their part. about pest trapping. I quickly learnt nothing, we could continue to lose the theory but I wanted to learn more animals that are unique to New 3. Start local and small. Lots of about the practical side. I also wanted Zealand. If we do pest trapping, we at little everyday actions that help the to ‘walk the talk’ as we encourage least give these species a chance. environment all add up if everyone people to get involved and do pest plays their part. That could be as trapping in their local area. I joined What are your top environmental tips? simple as sorting your rubbish into several volunteer groups to learn. 1. Do some monitoring or citizen compostable, recyclable and landfill. science in your area. Observe what Try not to use single-use items such Why is pest trapping important? is there that you want to save or as straws and coffee cups. Plant Our endemic and native species enhance and what you may want to native trees, pull weeds, pick up are fighting a losing battle against trap or control. rubbish at your local park or beach, introduced pests. Animals that have and ride on public transport now and been evolving here for millions of 2. Get involved in volunteering in then.

CHRISTINA and institutions. By offsetting our SIEBERHAGEN emissions, we are not only helping is a 14-year-old the environment but also helping our environmental community – or other communities if activist who spoke you are purchasing carbon credits. at the School Strike for Climate Action in 2. Pick up rubbish everywhere you go. Auckland’s Aotea Square in March. If everyone did this, our environment would look a lot cleaner and be a lot You call yourself an environmental greener. Nothing ruins a garden or activist. What does that entail? tree on the side of the path quite like I am working as a leader for the seeing a bunch of litter surrounding it. environment around my school and It isn’t possible to pick up every bit of community. I lead by example and do rubbish we walk past, but even while what I can for the environment, such you are waiting for the bus you can as taking part in my school’s Enviro pick up rubbish. group and picking up rubbish. [Young Swedish climate-change campaigner] 3. Contact people who have more Greta Thunberg is a big inspiration with ocean awareness, then moved power than you and get involved to me so I school-strike whenever more to plastic pollution, then my in our government. We all live in a we have one. One of my priorities is focus shifted to climate change democracy and everyone has to be to ensure everyone is well informed, and now my view is more holistic. represented. Use your voice, strike, because if we don’t know what we’re By improving one section we can write, petition, study, educate, create, fighting for, how are we meant to improve all of them, because they are speak, vote, email, ask, question, approach our challenges? interconnected. shout, innovate, act, protect, fight! Talk to other people in your school, What made you so invested in the Your top environmental tips? your workplace, your community, your environment? 1. Aim for carbon neutrality in business etc … I can’t vote yet, but I I love being at the beach, so it started our groups, organisations, homes am using all the other outlets I can. GETTY IMAGES, BRYAN LOWE BRYAN GETTY IMAGES, O cial print and digital partner

16 NGĀ IWI / PEOPLE Plastic Purse, 1970s. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. 1995.56.12. FRASER HANSON is the general manager of Innocent Packaging.

Innocent Packaging produces sustainable, compostable food packaging in a bid to plug one of our biggest and most preventable waste streams.

What’s Innocent Packaging all about? The idea stemmed from a reusable coffee cup company. It became obvious that to create change, we needed to change the mindset of the majority – the single-use market. We started looking for alternatives to petrochemical-based disposable food packaging. It started at coffee cups, compostable products (including food) intake. Value quality over convenience. and now we provide options across aren’t currently getting composted the sector. everywhere, it doesn’t mean they can’t 2. Have a positive attitude! Working be. Also, our products are 100 per cent together across industry can have Why is your firm’s work needed? made from plants, so production is huge positive impacts that are Where reusables aren't an option, kinder to the environment than oil- urgently required. we’re providing the next best thing. based packaging. Single-use packaging that also has 3. Compost. Either do it yourself at a viable end-of-life option is a step What are your top environmental tips? home or give We Compost a bell. It's towards eliminating waste to landfill. 1. Being conscious of your purchases. one of the best things you can do for the A big thing to remember is that even if Eat local, fresh food and limit meat climate, soil quality and to cut waste.

O cial print and digital partner Plastic Purse, 1970s. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. 1995.56.12. SARAH JANE MURRAY is one of the team leaders at the Compost Collective, an education programme aimed at reducing the amount of organic waste thrown out by Aucklanders.

What is the Compost Collective? It is a partnership programme funded by Auckland Council and delivered by the EcoMatters and Kaipātiki Project community organisations. It has been running now for three years, and we have engaged with 26,742 Aucklanders.

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Twice a week, the children of into nature are planting the seed of Pakuranga Baptist Kindergarten walk environmentalism in their minds. the underpass across Ti Rakau Drive, They’re always upset when they see then trace the banks of an estuary rubbish, says Lees. 1 into an area of native bush. The “We’ve had to phone Auckland kids have what their teachers call Council a couple of times because “markers” along the way. There’s a there have been rubbish bags in the eucalyptus tree they call he rākau nui creek that we couldn’t reach. They (big tree). When they get there, they [the children] talk about, ‘Who would always look for mushrooms growing do such a terrible thing? Why do nearby and check the smaller plants people dump the rubbish in the river? around its trunk. A little further along It ruins our special place and the fish the path, they arrive at another tree don’t like it.’” that looks a bit like a house. The Marisa Pene, Enviroschools’ children pretend fallen branches on regenerative-kaupapa Māori lead, the ground are possessions: their says one aim is for children to think couch or their motorbike. Sometimes of the land – Papatūānuku – like a they’ll pick one up and pretend to do family member. “If Papatūānuku is the vacuuming. As they go they collect my grandmother in a sense, then how taonga – pine cones or a wattle flower do I relate to her?” she says. “Would I – if they think it won’t harm the tree. treat her in a way I wouldn’t treat my Pakuranga Baptist is one of about own grandmother?” 65 kindergartens and 190 schools It may not be grand or headline- 4 across Auckland signed up to the making, but education programmes Enviroschools programme, a national like the ones taking place at scheme that Auckland Council co- Pakuranga Baptist kindy and right old, and her class was tasked with ordinates in the region. One of its aims across Auckland may be our most tracing the lifecycle of leaves, placing is instilling the idea of kaitiakitanga, or effective method of addressing the them on the ground in order from guardianship of the land. Jacqui Lees, world’s environmental problems. green, to yellow, to brown. The Pakuranga Baptist’s kaiwhakahaere Throughout the city, there’s a growing experience was formative. “From (organiser), says that’s come naturally recognition that teaching values such then on, everything I did was in for her preschoolers during their walks. as kaitiakitanga to the young is just nature. I always played outside. We She’s trying to take that connection as important as direct conservation always went on family trips to Tiritiri one step further and encourage a action, if not more so. Organisations Matangi or the zoo and I was always sense of whenuatanga, or belonging are realising it’s important to take the taking notes and drawing what I to the land, being a part of the time to shape a better future as well saw,” she says. Now, when Bodley environment. “They talk about, ‘How as improving the present. Here’s how turns up at the gardens, it’s to serve do we take care of our place?’ Because Auckland Council is helping to breed the 1.2 million annual visitors in it is our place,” she says. a new generation of environmental her role as a botanic records and Mostly the children see the trips heroes across three different spheres. conservation specialist. Often she as entertainment. “I like to jump takes children through the same in the puddles and get muddy,” Flora lesson she got when she was in Micah, 4, says. “We can swing on Emma Bodley remembers the first primary school. “I feel like I’ve come the ropes at the big tree, that’s really time she went to an education full circle,” she says. fun,” adds his classmate Reuben, programme at the Auckland Botanic Botanic gardens education

4. But there are signs the forays Gardens. She was five or six years manager Julia Watson says Bodley 4 / BEN FAHY 1 / LUKE HARVEY,

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Nature education sows the seeds of environmentalism in the minds of our nation’s children through events such as planting days (1), visits to Auckland Zoo (2 & 3) and the Auckland Botanic Gardens (4), and bush walks as undertaken by pupils of Pakuranga Baptist Kindergarten (5).

Fauna Last year, more than 715,000 people 5 walked through the gates of Auckland Zoo – one of the jewels in the crown of Auckland Council. Kevin Buley, isn’t alone. She often hears from you’re in – it actually influences you the zoo’s director, knows a lot of folk people whose childhood trips to later in life,” Watson says. make the trip to Western Springs the 64ha gardens in Manurewa Watson’s job is running the for entertainment, but he places – which are home to more than gardens’ suite of education Auckland Zoo at the centre of the 10,000 plants and, like Auckland programmes, including the school city’s ecological transformation. Zoo, are currently undergoing curriculum-based Learning Through Part of that mission is walking the major redevelopment – left a Experience and Education for environmental talk. The zoo has been lasting impression. Some just Sustainability, which encourages kids carbon zero-accredited for two years, developed a flair for horticulture. to think and act in ways that will has stopped using disposable cups or Others became deeply invested safeguard the future wellbeing of plastic bags and doesn’t sell products in environmentalism. (And the people and the planet. The success with palm oil. Buley sees those moves gardens’ education service is not just of that mission always comes back as modelling cultural change before for kids: there are also experts on to fostering a sense that we are all in it becomes mainstream. “Eight years hand for those who need guidance some sense part of the environment, ago, we stopped using plastic bags on gardening or growing food.) intricately connected to it and here at the zoo, and now we’ve “There’s a lot of research that responsible for its health, she says. stopped using plastic bags across when you have these experiences “The future is a heavy burden but it the entire country. That’s planting a when you’re in touch with nature and does rely on our young people caring seed and watching it grow in terms you’re actually doing something that for the planet. And you can only of environmental influence – and shows you care for the environment care if you’ve actually spent time in putting pressure on governments and – that you’re part of the environment nature, valuing nature.” large corporations.”

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environmentalism. There were Water 51,871 conservation education visits Most people know Sustainable to the zoo last year. Nearly 4000 Coastlines for its work plucking students from 29 decile 0-3 schools rubbish out of the Hauraki Gulf. The in Auckland and Northland attended organisation was launched around free Zoofari education sessions. 10 years ago with an event at Aotea / Another 2757 students attended a Great Barrier Island, where hundreds conservation education outreach of volunteers – including pupils from course on which they slept under lower-decile schools – collected 2.8 canvas on Tāwharanui Beach, east of tonnes of rubbish. Since then, it’s Warkworth, and went out at night to organised dozens of large-scale clean- 6 spot kiwi by torchlight. Meanwhile, ups – and planted more than 100,000 placards around the zoo grounds trees – around the country. deliver practical conservation tips. Auckland Council’s own research He also sees the zoo providing a These programmes are at least as suggests clean beaches and vital green outpost in an increasingly vital as the “intensive” conservation waterways are ranked first when it urbanised Auckland. Island bird work carried out by zoo staff, Buley comes to enjoyment of the city. So sanctuaries such as Tiritiri Matangi says. Environmental transformation it’s not surprising that the rubbish can take only limited numbers of can’t be achieved by a few collections generate so much visitors, and the zoo should be a specialists, he believes. Instead, he publicity. But Sustainable Coastlines place where people can connect hopes that change is the result of co-founder Camden Howitt says with nature sustainably as the city’s thousands of everyday actions from cleaning up beaches and waterways population grows to an expected people who’ve been influenced by isn’t the most important part of two million people by 2030, he their trips to places like the zoo, the organisation’s work. Even from says. “We can’t expect everybody even if they went only to see the that first operation on Great Barrier, to be able to experience our wildlife lions. “Auckland Zoo on its own is educating people and fostering closer on our offshore islands. It needs not going to save the world. It’s not connections to nature have been to be the zoo experience and going to guarantee the future of at the heart of its mission, he says, also, really importantly, enriching New Zealand’s wildlife. But those and, since it began, it has shared its the environment in our local who visit Auckland Zoo, who engage presentations to well over 200,000 neighbourhoods and encouraging with us and our wildlife, who take people. “I think the best way to put wildlife back into those spaces.” on board our advocacy messages that is that if all you do is clean up, Many of the zoo’s programmes and engage with us in conservation then all you’ll ever do is clean up. The are now focused on facilitating action, will absolutely provide analogy is if you’ve plugged in the that grassroots neighbourhood fundamental change.” bath and left the tap running and the COASTLINES SUSTAINABLE 6 & 10 / 6 & 7 / LUKE HARVEY,

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There’s growing recognition that teaching children values such as kaitiakitanga by getting them involved in planting days (6), Sustainable Coastlines clean-ups (7 & 10) and nature walks (8 & 9) is just as important as direct conservation action.

8 water’s overflowing all through your house, you don’t get the mop out and just keep mopping up. You go and you turn off the tap.” For Howitt, turning off the tap means giving people strategies to live more sustainably and produce less waste. Without that, Sustainable Coastlines would keep going to the same beaches to clear the same waste products, he says. Two years ago, it opened its education centre, The 10 Flagship, at Wynyard Quarter in an attempt to show people – particularly children – how they can live in a way out free water-quality testing kits to For evidence of the profound that’s kinder to their local waterways. help individuals or groups care for sense of connection being in nature Auckland Council’s urban regeneration their local freshwater streams. Council can instil, look to the children of agency, Panuku, owns the land the Healthy Waters Specialist Gabi Ezeta Pakuranga Baptist kindy. They centre occupies and helped the says the programme addresses two recently travelled to the nearby charity to bring the idea to life. At its of the biggest problems facing efforts maunga, Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon launch, Panuku Place Making Manager to improve Auckland’s water quality: Mountain. Jacqui Lees says the class Frith Walker said the permanent people’s lack of knowledge of how made their own story explaining structure was a perfect fit for the area their actions affect waterways, and the special trip. In their minds, given Wynyard Quarter’s focus on the feeling they can’t do anything Ōhuiarangi was lonely. She (the sustainable design, “because we don’t to address the issue. “Humans maunga) wanted to sit on a swing want to just keep cleaning up, we want have a very strong connection to with a child on her lap, but couldn’t to restore, protect and eventually water, mainly because we can’t live move anymore. So Ōhuiarangi called regenerate this environment that without it. However, there is a lack out for the children to visit her. humans have degraded”. of understanding of how our daily When they got there, they climbed Howitt says the core focus is activities can affect the quality of up her face and did roly-polys down to provide education that creates the water, and learning about this again. “This tickled Ōhuiarangi and environmental behaviour change. from an early age will help children now they have a relationship with A focus on empowering people is make the right decisions and her,” Lees says. also at the heart of Wai Care’s work. empower them to be guardians of our “She is our mountain. She loves us The Auckland Council initiative gives waterways when they grow up.” and we love her.”

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Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa / Conservation Week from 14-22 September aims to inspire New Zealanders to do their bit to protect the environment. With more than 4000 species threatened or at risk, it’s more important than ever to do something to create change. You can start in your own backyard by planting natives, pulling out weeds and trapping pests. You can also donate to environmental causes. But if you want to join in the fun with fellow nature-lovers, here are some of the Auckland events:

Centennial Park, Campbells Bay: Meet the Centennial Park Bush Society volunteers, take a guided walk with an Auckland Council ranger through the reserve and stick around after the walk for a barbecue. Wed 18 Sep, 10am-12.30pm (guided ŌTĀHUHU FOOD FESTIVAL walk only, 10am-noon). SAT 28 SEP, 10AM-4PM FREE Clevedon Scenic Reserve: Take a guided walk with Auckland’s biggest street-food festival will have more a council ranger through the reserve forest and than 150 stalls, trucks and caravans with food from wetland area, and look inside the historic Camp around the world, plus performances from well-known Sladdin Scout building (Conservation Week was Kiwi artists. Great South Road, Ōtāhuhu started 50 years ago by the Scout Association). Thurs 19 Sep, 10am-1pm (guided walk only, 10am- noon).

Hunua Ranges: Head into the ranges with council rangers and you might spot a kōkako. One walk will be 3-4 hours long and the other 1½-2 hours long on easier terrain. Fri 20 Sep and Sat 21 Sep, estimated start time 7.30am. (Rain date Sun 22 Sep.) The intention will be to continue these guided walks on a regular basis after Conservation Week.

Community plantings: Get your gumboots on and dig in at these locations (all 10am starts). Braemar Reserve, Castor Bay, and Harania Reserve, Favona, Sun 15 Sep; Barbados Reserve, Rosedale, Tues 17 Sep; Trimdon Street Reserve, Randwick Park, Wed 18 & Sat 21 Sep; Waiuku Estuary,

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