Project Implementation - Totara For Totaranui

Toi tu te marae o Tane-Mahuta, toi tu te marae o Tangaroa, toi tu te tangata
When the land and sea are looked after, the people will prosper.

Each of the strategic goals, outcomes and associated actions are important in their own right and must be seen collectively as the pathway to restore the mauri / life force and essential quality and vitality of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.

It is not possible to undertake all the actions required instantly and we need to prioritise the actions in a staged implementation with associated monitoring and research needs.

We need to take a generational perspective since it took decades to create the current impacts on the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui area, so we expect that restoration to the desired outcomes may also take decades, after all Tōtara can live for a thousand years.

The project supports and understands the need to protect and manage ngā taonga tuku iho (treasures handed down to us).

Get involved!

The animals and plants of Tōtaranui need your help now!

How to help

Project objectives for 2021

Lead strategic initiatives described in the plan that are clearly not the role of any particular statutory agency, and/or facilitate interagency cooperation to ensure priority initiatives are implemented.

Document the detailed implementation plan.

Facilitate and coordinate research, information gathering, and reporting for the project as well as providing a central place where information can be held.

Establish a public awareness and education campaign on the implementation of the plan and other relevant issues associated with Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.

Support the community initiatives and restoration groups already actively engaged with protecting and restoring Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui.

Assist iwi with the kaitiakitanga of the marine space.

Work closely with DOC, Iwi, Marlborough District Council, landowners to help establish the network of integrated catchment management plans.

Lead regular meetings with partners to track and communicate implementation progress.

Seek opportunities to add value to research projects, for example, by involving local industry and community groups, and developing opportunities for partners to undertake research programmes collaboratively.

Help co-ordinate research across different programmes.

Provide a liaison role between research programmes and management agencies, to ensure important results are communicated and understood.

Identifying future opportunities for synergies between partners and research agencies.

Early win project opportunities

Invest in people through the jobs for nature programme.
Improve communication between partners.
Establish public awareness and education campaign through social media channels.
Accelerate the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Strategy from outcomes to actions.
Establish the designated Tūpoupou Marine Protected Area with bouys and markers to highlight the requirement to slow down in the breeding and birthing bays.
Undertake catchment condition assessments and surveys for the land adjacent to the Tūpoupou Marine Protected Area to document what is occurring in each catchment.
Ascertain which catchments are part of existing baseline monitoring datasets and which catchments are not.
Weed control programme.
Immediate action on solving problems identified in catchment condition surveys such as fencing, critical source areas, problem weeds etc.
Fencing wetlands and riparian areas.
Native nursery establishment.
Riparian plantings.
Native plantings.
Predator control.