Last year a new species of fresh water golden clam was discovered in the Waikato awa. This invasive species invoked ngā kaitiaki o Waipā, whānau, hapū and iwi to mobilise, to understand and learn about the golden clam.
The Ngāti Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau iwi places great significance on Te Kete Poutama, an area that encompasses Lake Rotoitipaku near Kawerau, because it has been integral to their economic, cultural, spiritual and social wellbeing for generations.
Over the last decade, Indigenous peoples and new social movements have produced the most profound and democratic transformation in the history of Latin America - the southern part of what Indigenous peoples call Abya Yala (the Americas). Some describe this moment as potentially post-capitalist and others as decolonial, suggesting the ways these changes challenge colonialism.
The Hauraki Māori Trust Board and the Cawthron Institute are collaborating in this research project which stems from a spate of dog deaths on the beaches of Tīkapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) in August 2009. The dogs died from the poison tetrodotoxin (TTX) and this poison was present in sea slugs that had washed up on beaches.