Projects

This project aims to investigate innovative and environmentally sustainable energy generation for use in electric vehicles and evaluate the success of these methods in a school based setting.

Midhirst School wants to develop an organic orchard as a teaching / learning tool.

Kimihia Kermit is an investigation into the whereabouts, the type and the number of frogs that can be found in North Taranaki.

The project team will gather information on the types of litter, and the origin of litter on the Taranaki coastline, and in particular, in the Tapuae Marine Reserve.

Has a change in wetland vegetation resulted in a change in the abundance and diversity of aquatic macro –invertebrates and terrestrial invertebrates?

The Waitotara River Monitoring Project enables primary school students to investigate and monitor the changes of the Waitotara River over the course of a year.

Students will monitor two sites for invertebrates and vegetation, and record environmental factors to assess the restoration work on Taranaki’s riparian margins and in wetland ecosystems.

Healthy Living Soil Project is a collaborative initiative that will emphasise the benefits of incorporating a scientific approach to the way we grow our food.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Mutunga will carry out a comprehensive estuarine assessment in the Urenui and Mimitangiatua estuaries and aim to establish what current and future threats may impact on the health of these important coastal areas.

This community project will undertake a study of the critically endangered long-tail bat to define the home territory it occupies within Pūrangi, East Taranaki.