Ngaa Hau o maangere ngahere Planting Guide
Ngaa - Here
Many - Connections
Ngahere: the mutually beneficial and interwoven relationships across te taiao that sustain whakapapa, mauri, and the diversity of life.
The purpose of this guide is to set down values and guiding principles, as expressed by mana whenua, in the delivery of community aspirations for ngahere across Ngaa Hau o Maangere. The guide responds to requests for assistance with restoration guidance.
If we are to increase community understanding and appreciation, foster a love of nature and give the community tools to make decisions and implement programmes, then this guide adds to the toolbox of existing knowledge to honour both maatauranga Maaori and the collective knowledge within communities.
This guide aims to assist the reader to step through a process of decision making for selecting the right tree for the right place to improve the rate of success.
Maangere Ngahere Project
This guide is one part of the wider Maangere Ngahere Project, which aims to grow and restore the ngahere. The Maangere Ngahere Project is the pilot for the wider Kāinga Ora Ngahere Project, occurring across the Maangere-Ootaahuhu Local Board area. With only eight per cent canopy cover in this area, and a large scale redevelopment programme underway to transform nine neighbourhoods over the next 20 years the pilot provides opportunity to make a difference both within Kāinga Ora developments and across the wider community.
The aim of the project is to catalyse a collaborative and integrated place-based approach to understanding and restoring ngahere in Ngaa Hau o Maangere. Connecting taangata (people), whenua (land), wai (water) and te taiao (environment) and recognising the interconnection of health and wellbeing of all.
The project is underpinned by mana whenua guidance, te tikanga rere ki uta, rere ki tai, and takes a whole of landscape approach. It invites us to work in ways that uplift Ngaa Hau o Maangere; the whenua and its people.
The Maangere Ngahere Working Group is a collaboration between:
Kāinga Ora
Mana whenua - Te Ahiwaru and Te Aakitai Waiohua
ME Family Services (local community organisation)
Uru Whakaaro
