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2025 Coastal Restoration Trust Conference
Taihuanui - A Bountiful Coast

Hauiti Marae, Ūawa Tolaga Bay, 12-14 March 2025

Our 2025 conference was held at Hauiti marae in Ūawa Tolaga Bay on the East Cape of Aotearoa New Zealand from 12 to 14 March.

The speakers, workshops, field trips and sponsors made this an unforgettable experience.

Here is our conference handbook (PDF, 2.36 MB)

Here is our conference video from Southlight Studio

The conference photos are available to download until 14 April 2025.

Our Coast: The Coastal Restoration Trust video project

Please send us your presentation if it isn’t already on this page
Keynote speakers:

Dr Murry Cave, Gisborne District Council, The erosional impact of the 2017 to present stormy cycle on the coastal environment of Gisborne/Tairāwhiti (PDF, 8.10 MB)

Speakers:

Dr Amber Dunn - Making the invisible visible: the nature of sand is to move (PDF, 4.12 MB)

Victor Walker: Ūawanui - Adversity to Opportunity (PDF, 5.21 MB)

Dr David Bergin: CRT Project updates and proposals (PPTX, 1.94 MB)

Southlight Studio: What’s Up? (PDF, 6.00 MB)

Dame Anne Salmond: Tai Timu Tai Pari: The Wahapū of the Waimatā (PDF, 20.47 MB) and Presentation text (PDF, 597.40 kB)

Graeme Atkins: Coastal flora of Tairāwhiti (PDF, 7.37 MB)

Dr Phoebe Stewart-SInclair, NIWA: Estuaries under a changing climate (PDF, 5.78 MB)

Dr Laura Hughes, GNS Science: Bioshields and Tsunamis (PPTX, 13.78 MB)

Celia Wade-Brown MP: Domestic Cat Microchipping Bill (PPTX, 11.43 MB)

Don McLean, Glenn Brown: Weed Species Control for Dune Restoration (PDF, 1.50 MB)

Arnem Littek: Katipō ecology (PDF, 1.28 MB), Katipō predators, (PDF, 1.04 MB) Katipō vs false katipō (PDF, 1.37 MB), Katipō vs redbacks (PDF, 1.30 MB)

Regional Roundup:

Castlecliff Coast Care (PPTX, 22.72 MB)

Friends of Petone Beach (PDF, 6.39 MB)

Bream Bay Coastal Care Trust (PPTX, 30.47 MB)

Stuart Park Restoration Project (PPTX, 20.10 MB)

Waikato Coastcare (PPTX, 24.56 MB)

Slash for Cash (PPTX, 16.81 MB)

South Wairarapa Biodiversity Group (PPTX, 19.43 MB)

Te Whakapae Ururoa - Myrtle Rust survelliance project (PDF, 4.87 MB)

Coastcare Kaituna (PDF, 6.17 MB)

Whaingaroa Coastcare project (PDF, 11.58 MB)

Coast Care Bay of Plenty (PPTX, 17.24 MB)

Hoa o Horoirangi Rahui Moana (PDF, 1.34 MB)

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Coastal Restoration Trust of New Zealand: Tāhuna Ora

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  • Home
  • About
  • Conference Programme
    • Conference Venue - Hauiti Marae
  • Speakers
  • Sponsors
  • Important Information
    • Registration
    • Venue
    • Accommodation
    • Catering
    • Transport
    • Regional Roundup presentations
    • Post Conference field trip (optional)
    • Activities- local and regional
  • Contact Us