Deer have no place in our native forests. The notion of a healthy deer population in a healthy forest is a glaring conflict of interest. It's like having a "Drug dealers for healthy families" organisation. The Regional council needs to have better standards. When deer hunters can become proud deer eradicators then they will have a really proud role in protecting and RESTORING our native forests.

We don't want "Steak Holders" in native forests. Ungulates efficiently target sensitive species, degrading the native biodiversity and indigenous character of the forest.

Please do not delete constructive criticism. It does not reflect well on the Council and doesn't help address very real conservation issues.

@stephenking4170 0 seconds ago Deer have no place in our native forests. The notion of a healthy deer population in a healthy forest is a glaring conflict of interest. It's like having a "Drug dealers for healthy families" organisation. The Regional council needs to have better standards. When deer hunters can become proud deer eradicators then they will have a really proud role in protecting and RESTORING our native forests. Progressively shift the deer population goal to zero over a 10 year period. Whoever has actual control and mana over the forest needs to adopt such a goal for the benefit (integrity, mauri) of the forest but even better if the Sika Foundation itself adopted this goal and become true warriors of native forest. I get that hunting is fun, a primal instinct and a British thumbs down to the aristocracy heritage, but deer and native forests are incompatible. Even low numbers of dee will take out Alseuosmia, for example. Alseuosmia is the world's best example of plant mimicry, and its strategy successfully protected it from sight browsing Moa but not smell browsing mammalian ungulates. Achieving total eradication would be a real milestone and would train some new eradicators whose skills could be employed elsewhere.

This vine is an ecological disaster. Please don't grow it. It spreads prolifically and smothers native vegetation. It can grow so much mass so quickly that it can easily bring down the largest of trees. It is very difficult to eradicate. It must be carefully treated with a scrape & paint technique, otherwise the aerial tubers will rain down and spread.

Is there a job for a 29 year old in New Zealand ? I am 29 years old and I want to work and live in New Zealand .can you post my message

People especially Men need to be cautious of the waikato taniwha, the taniwha is a wāhine and searches for her lost love so she snatches men who come near

Its a fungus change the soil conditions to comprimize that speciific fungus for a time. Acidic ,basic, yeast sea water ,maybe a dose of ash or phosphorus on the ground.

I can’t believe this service survived.

Wata ratshett oryte... poor Wainui

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Awesome.

Certified hamilton banger 💀

Ya can smoke it. And eat the berries.

15 minute city boundary?

11 Events in the last 5 years. Sure sounds like 1 in 100 year floods.

excuse my udeducated question.. but couldn't you just have a road over the stop bank like a hump? lol

You are kidding me that is not going to work - This is Water

Only 3 likes?

Hello, a have a qestion: if you want to build your own private pond, in your backyard, for having fun on jet ski, what is minimal size of it to enjoy it safely?I know that the minimal depth is around 3ft, but what is the actual area size?Thank you in advance!

It just needs a massive clean up

.always a lot of talk, waiting for the public to do it won't work put it on a noxious weed list doesn't work either.not long ago you put agapanthus on it, but what did you do about it?nothing,its all over the place.you even cultivate it on the roadside you get your money for nothing.you only care about tourist spots.

My solution is that there needs to be native forest planted ex amount metres or kilometres either side of the river bank large enough to suck up the nitrate from farming, this will also benefit the plants, then to get rid of pesky pest fish that further degrade the water quality, in places like Hamilton the stretch of river is apparently littered with Koi carp, so set a barrier from one side of Hamilton to the other, only for fish but allowing water to still pass through, like a robust net, and make sure all the native fish and stuff are safe, and just spray poison all over them, then leave the barrier in place and the barrier continually gets larger as more stretch of river is cleared of pest fish, now for migratory mullet might be a problem, the smaller whitebait species should be able to get through, and then obviously it is going to cost a ton of money, but when the money is there at some stage it's what I think the solution should be.

ok

all this for a few rooks, why not just shoot em?

Can you please recommend good areas to bow fish for carp that is not too far outside of Auckland? Thank you in advance.

GOOD ON YOU KATHY FOR HAVING THE GUTS TO STAND UP AND DECLINE TO HAVE THE EXPERIMENTAL JAB. THE REST OF THE PATHETIC WET BUS TICKET COUNCILORS ARE WEAK AS AND ALWAYS MUST FOLLOW THE NARRATIVE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MIND OF THERE OWN. WHY SHOULD A PROMINENT PERSON HAVE TO BE A FOOL AND DO SOMETHING AGAINST THEIR WILL, TOTAL BS, YOU WILL BE LOOKED UPON VERY SHORTLY AS THE PERSON THAT MADE THE RIGHT DECISION, BELIEVE ME. READ THE REAL INFO NOT THE GOVT AND PATHETIC FAKE NEWS THE TERRIBLE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE STUFF PUT OUT, THEY HAVE BEEN PAID BY THAT TYRANICAL IDOT OF A SO CALLED LEADER MILLIONS TO WRITE WHAT SHE WANTS. HAVE A LOOK AT THE REAL DATA ON THE DEATHS OF VACCINATED PEOPLE AND THE THOUSANDS OF TERRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS AND YOU WILL BE THE ONE SAYING I TOLD YOU SO. GOOD ON YOU KATHY.

Nobody cares

Omg I didn’t know

Only watching it for the Waikato river

Nice work! Perfect stream for it though. Be good to add a few different stream scenarios to how you adjust the method to varying conditions.

I luv your eccint

Good fun, these guys are to get on the rod

I've always thought drifting with the current in some free diving gear and a speargun down the Ohinemuri shooting carp would be an interesting experience.... There's some big fish in there.

Much obliged. 👍

Have Masterchef Koi and Carp cook-off challenges .... and automatically , your rivers will have much less of these pest.

The algae pollution in that water believe it or not is of a fecal manner. It's cow poo from those fluffy cows with horns dumped in a stream then stuffs up the lake and so on.

I don't understand why you are pointing out the faults when you are the ones who hold the power to implement solutions.. this was a toanga, this carried immense power and mana, this carried the mauri of tangatawhenua.. He piko, He taniwha!!! Now it is a cesspool that only carries sickness.. we know whats wrong tell us what we can do to tautoko the council in finding ways to fix it!!

The Waikato is nor a "taunga". It is a "taonga". If you are going to narrate a video it is important to pronounce maori words correctly for 3 reasons: 1. to be understood and not risk saying an unintended word. 2. respect maori and be a proud kiwi. 3. to speak in tune. Mispronunciation is like singing out of tune, like an opera singer singing out of tune !!!!!!.

Very informative

Flood Control International designed & supplied this amazing bespoke sliding gate!!

What 60k. What a joke

Ever thought of as long as people sell them very expensive there might always be a Koi invasion , & as long as invasive grass carp or whatever invasive carp types are help feed the poor stopping poor people from having food your keeping the poor to exist because healthy food is expensive so get licenses as though people can afford it robbing people from eating food from waters is evil ? . Say get a job , no how many times s/o tried to get a job and no one would higher them ?. Ever heard of being dumb assuming things when don't ask many questions & never been there nor in their shoes ever ?. Is that a form of evil ?.

Hi, Can I graft eggplant on them? Thanks

This weed is loved in Oz in regeneration , dont know why ?It manages to take over sites and inhibit natives

Love Waikato River. I spent one month in Hamilton some years ago. Always missing it.