The Whau River Catchment Trust

The key purposes of the Trust are as follows: To provide leadership by adopting an Ecosystem-based Management approach with the aim of restoring and sustaining ecosystems within the Whau River catchment to meet both ecological and human needs now and in the future. Ecosystem Management aims to conserve major ecological services and restore natural resources while meeting the socio-economic, political and cultural needs of current and future generations. Approaches to effective ecosystem management engage conservation efforts at both a local or landscape level; To maintain, enhance, protect, restore, monitor and nurture the natural ecology and its environment, the support of ecosystem restoration and conservation projects with particular emphasis on the Whau River, its tributaries, margins and catchment areas; ETC. For full details go to http://www.whauriver.org.nz/the-whau-river-catchment-trust or see attached document