Tairāwhiti Whenua Charitable Trust

17/09/2026

For our members and wider community 🌱

Whenua Oho is hosting a free interactive seminar for Māori landowners and trustees on Thursday 24 September.

Come along to learn more about forestry opportunities for whenua Māori, including land-use planning, forest management, carbon and ETS opportunities, funding pathways and practical next steps for your whenua.

There’s no obligation, just an opportunity to listen, ask questions and have a kōrero. Kai will be provided following the seminar.

📩 For more information or to register be sure to make contact.

Please share with your whānau

02/09/2026

Resilience in Tairāwhiti is practical.

It’s having the relationships, local capability and systems in place to respond when things get tough - and to keep moving when the immediate response is over.

For whenua Māori, that means making sure landowners are connected to the right people, information and resources to make decisions for their whenua.

There is plenty still to work through across our region. Collaboration is how we make progress.



📸: Williams Photographer

29/08/2026

Spring is nearly here!

A shout out to all of our whenua Māori blocks, farmers, landowners, managers and teams across Tairāwhiti heading into one of the busiest times of the year.

New growth, longer days, lambing and plenty of mahi happening across the whenua.

We’re fortunate to work alongside some exceptional farming operations across this rohe - each one different, but all contributing to the strength of whenua Māori and our wider regional economy.

Here’s to a good season ahead. 🌱

26/08/2026

TAIRĀWHITI MĀORI FORESTRY INTERESTS SEEK PRACTICAL PATHWAYS FOR SLASH, WOODY DEBRIS AND LAND USE TRANSITION

Tairawhiti Whenua joined other Tairawhiti-based Māori forestry interests, sector representatives, Gisborne District Council and central government agencies at a Wellington hui convened by the Environmental Defence Society to address one of the region’s most urgent land management challenges: woody debris, forestry slash and the transition of high-risk land into more resilient long-term cover.

The risks are known. The science is there. Our landowners are ready to act.

What’s needed now are practical pathways that allow them to.

Tairāwhiti Whenua is pushing for coordinated action on forestry slash, woody debris and land-use transition - aligning regulation, funding, ETS settings and local knowledge to protect our whānau and whenua for generations to come.

Read more: https://www.tairawhitiwhenua.co.nz/panui/tairawhiti-maori-forestry-interests-seek-practical-pathways-for-slash-woody-debris-and-land-use-transition

24/08/2026

15/08/2026

Many hands, one purpose 🌱

Partnership is often described through governance arrangements, funding contracts or formal agreements between organisations. Yet it’s true strength is rarely revealed in boardrooms or strategic plans. It becomes visible when communities face adversity and people choose to work together because years of trust, shared purpose and mutual respect have made collaboration the natural response.

The East Cape Flood Relief Day provided a compelling example of that principle in action.

Read more: https://www.tairawhitiwhenua.co.nz/panui/many-hands-one-purpose

13/08/2026

A great day of kōrero and learning with our TW Managers Rōpū last week 🙌

We were lucky to have Matene Blandford and Orlo Dennison (Rata) share some of the mahi happening around digitisation, mapping and land-use data, alongside Suzanne Rowe from AgResearch who brought the science of sheep genetics to life - and what it could mean practically for our farms here in Tairāwhiti.

Lots of questions, shared thinking and good kōrero around the table.

Always valuable bringing our managers together to learn from each other, hear from people doing some really interesting mahi, and keep building our collective understanding of what the future might look like for whenua Māori.

12/08/2026

WHO PAYS FOR THE DAMAGE WE LEAVE BEHIND?

The blame game now playing out in the media may make for strong headlines, but it risks distracting us from the real issue facing Tairāwhiti. Our region is confronting an estimated $600 million transition towards more sustainable land use. Irrespective of who made what decisions, or which agency should have acted sooner, that is the scale of the challenge now before us.

Beyond the blame game, our region must choose shared responsibility over delay.

- By Hilton Collier, CEO, Tairāwhiti Whenua

Beyond the blame game, our region must choose shared responsibility over delay