TE WHAKAHONONGA Huarahi Tika
E hara taku toa, he toa takitahi, he toa takitini
TAU IHO I TE PO TRUST
In 2022 Maori co-leads from Nga Rakau Taketake, Biological Heritage ('NRT')approached Ngatirua through our hapu Trust, Tau Iho I Te Po Trust was engaged to Te Whakahononga along with 12 other mana whenua throughout Aotearoa that shared a common goal to protect taonga kauri and native myrtles: manuka, kanuka, rata, pohutukawa, rohutu, ramarama and maire.
Tau Iho I Te Po Trust ('the Trust') was engaged in twenty-two research projects across five of the Nga Rakau Taketake Themes: Risk Assessment and Ecosystem Impacts ; Integrated Surveillance ; Control, Protect, Cure ; Host, Pathogen and Environment; and Conservation and Restoration

Te Whakahononga Hui Taumata (inaugural) May, 2022 Tauranga Moana
He Tohu O Te Maramataka
The Proof Of Absence Model
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Theme 3 – Risk assessment and ecosystem impacts. Dr Luitgard Schwendermann (University of Auckland) and Simon Wegner (Scion). Theme 4 – Integrated surveillance. Waitangi Wood (Independent researcher) and Dean Anderson, Cecilia Arienti, Audrey Lustig (Manaaki Whenua, Landcare Research). Theme 5 – Control, protect, cure. Dave Milner (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whatua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) and Marion Woods (Plant and Food Research) Theme 6 – Host, Pathogen and Environment. Juliane Chetham (Patuharakeke, Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi), Beccy Ganley (Plant and Food Research), Dr Nari Williams (Plant and Food Research). Theme 7 - Alby Marsh (Ngati Rangi, Ngati Porou, Ngatikahu) and Peter Bellingham (Manaaki Whenua, Landcare Research)