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Tāngata whenua entities are invited to apply for a share of a new $20,000 fund from Northland Regional Council (NRC) designed to help them carry out environmental monitoring in Te Tai Tokerau.
NRC chair Tui Shortland says the fund will give tangata whenua resources to complement existing monitoring activities in partnership projects or programmes with Council.
“This fund can help tāngata whenua to undertake cultural monitoring activities, to increase their skills and knowledge of scientific environmental monitoring, and to develop methods for monitoring the cultural and physical health of fresh and coastal water bodies and their associated ecosystems, as well as the impact of climate change,” she says.
Applicants need to be an established legal or operational tāngata whenua entity, such as a marae committee, hapū trust, iwi authority or a consultant contracted to act on the entity’s behalf.
Applications are open until Friday, March 24 and are expected to be decided by mid-April.
Data gathered as a result of the funding will be made available to the Council, though Shortland says there may be exceptions if there are “particular sensitivities associated with some or all of the information, for instance wāhi tapu areas or mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) that is held close by hapu”.
Info: Go to www.nrc.govt.nz/TWEMF
