This page contains details of Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa, our environmental strategy. It also has guidelines for engaging with Ngāti Rārua as well as information about iwi monitoring, accidental discovery protocols, key projects and our team.
Our team | Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa | Engaging with us | Iwi monitoring and accidental discovery protocol | Key Projects
Tira Taiao
Pou Taiao - George Stafford
George leads Te Tira Taiao. With the support of team members, he represents Ngāti Rārua across the significant taiao projects happening throughout the rohe and he is responsible for ensuring the voice of Ngāti Rārua whānau and hapū is represented in these kaupapa. Along with overseeing the team’s focus, he also leads with ensuring that the engagement by others with Ngāti Rārua on Taiao kaupapa is meaningful and appropriate. He also leads in all Taiao matters for the Wairau rohe.
Pou Whakamāherehere - Rowena Cudby
Rowena represents Ngāti Rārua in statutory planning processes carried out by councils including district and regional plan preparation and review, reserve management plan reviews, and resource consent submissions and hearings. She is our representative on the Te Tauihu Iwi Implementing Te Mana o Te Wai Project. Rowena also prepares our cultural impact assessments, and leads our Taiao GIS project – which includes identification of sites and areas of significance to Ngāti Rārua for protection in district plans.
Pou Tohutohu Taiao - Mana Sebualala
Mana oversees a variety of different Taiao kaupapa from Whakatū across to Motueka and Mohua. Working with Tasman District Council and Nelson City Council along with the Department of Conservation. Mana manages all resource consents and permits in these rohe, upholding cultural values and weaving in mātauranga Māori
Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa
Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa is the Ngāti Rārua Environmental Strategy. It is an expression of rangatiratanga and kaitiakitanga from ngā uri o Ngāti Rārua.
Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa:
- Highlights Ngāti Rārua values, priorities, and aspirations for environmental management
- Sets out high level operational policy to guide Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua trustees and staff to ensure our mahi is consistent with iwi priorities, and
- Provides a tool for councils, central government organisations and the wider community to understand the environmental issues of significance to Ngāti Rārua.
Tira Taiao mahi covers a wide range of projects and processes.
Engaging with us
We receive a high volume of engagement requests from councils, developers, community groups and others. We have prepared some guidelines to help you give us the right level of information about your proposal.
Engagement guidelines
Iwi monitoring and accidental discovery protocol
Ārewa Limited manages Ngāti Rārua-mandated iwi monitors. Their contact details are:
- Website: https://www.arewa.nz/
- Email: elevate@arewa.nz
- Phone: 03 265-5565 or 027 386-9288
Accidental discovery protocol
Key projects
Te Mana o Te Wai
The protection and enhancement of freshwater is one of the highest priorities for tangata whenua iwi of Te Tauihu o te Waka-a-Māui.
In this video, produced by Manatū o Te Taiao, you’ll see some of the broad range of mahi that Ngā Iwi o Te Tauihu have underway to safeguard the mana, mauri, and wairua of wai. This includes restoration projects, and building the capacity and capability of whānau, hapū and iwi to engage and participate in freshwater management.
It also means working alongside councils in our rohe to co-design freshwater planning provisions that give effect to Te Mana o Te Wai across Te Tauihu.
Together, we honour our tīpuna by protecting and enhancing the health of our waterways, safeguarding their mana, mauri, and wairua for the wellbeing awa and of our community and our mokopuna.
Our Trustee Aneika Young talks about some of the challenges we face with wastewater, in particular around Motueka and our tīpuna awa. Right now, we are working on the proposal to relocate the Motueka Wastewater Treatment Plant.
There are similar challenges across the rohe as we look to encourage safe and sustainable wastewater discharge to land rather than into our moana. This work is a key long-term focus for our taiao team, in line with Poipoia Te Ao Tūroa, our environmental strategy.