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Appeal to Lake visitors

6 November 2019

Ngai Tuhoe iwi have a solution to help ensure illegal campsites and the effects these have on the shores of Lake Waikaremoana do not happen again. The campsites were set up during Labour Weekend. Native bush was cut down, home-made showers and toilets were set up, “a beer bottle wall” was erected in a kiwi sanctuary and rubbish was left behind.   “Being ‘tangata whenua’ (people of the land) is...

Kawerau Medical Centre’s model of care is the philosophical launch pad for central North Island iwi Tūhoe’s ambitious expansion plans to improve the health of its people. Tāmati Kruger, a member of the iwi’s trust, Te Uru Taumatua, says Tūhoe is set to open a new clinic in Ruatahuna by next March with another clinic opening later in 2020 at Waikaremoana. Tūhoe bought the Kawerau clinic in July after opening its first...

Press Release: New Zealand Walking Access Commission People have a duty to care for the land and its kaitiaki when they visit it, says Walking Access Commission Ara Hīkoi Aotearoa Chief Executive Ric Cullinane. Cullinane says news that freedom campers and visitors are dumping rubbish and felling trees at Lake Waikaremoana is deeply saddening. "Te Urewera is a unique and beautiful place. It now holds its own legal personhood...

Rubbish-strewn campsites, home-made toilets and illegal felling of native trees by "arrogant and disrespectful" freedom campers at Lake Waikaremoana have shocked and saddened Ngāi Tūhoe.     Several rubbished-strewn campsites were found over Labour Weekend on the lake shore, under the Panekire Ranges, included large fire sites near native bush, lots of ground cleared and native bush cut down for...

How Tūhoe is rethinking the future of Lake Waikaremoana – and asking trampers for patience while they do it. As a young dad, Tūhoe’s Tamati Kruger spent months living off-grid with his family deep in Te Urewera. They lived in a rough slab hut and foraged and hunted off the land. He even delivered his son there. Years later, when Kruger tussled with former prime minister John Key on the need to include the care and management of Te...

It's been two months since a video of a newborn baby being taken from its mother in Hastings sparked national outrage.   Since then, four inquiries have been launched and the Ministry for Children, Oranga Tamariki, has promised to do better.   And despite seething anger from many in Māoridom, iwi are still willing to work with the department.   Mitch McCann travelled to Tūhoe country, where a...