Welcome to Whirinaki Interactive
The Whirinaki Rainforest Community Web Portal
Here you can visit all our websites (each is also accessible from the right hand most menu on every page)
Visit Whirinaki Forest with us
We share one of the world's most precious and fragile rainforests situated in the Whirinaki River basin in the North Island of New Zealand. We will help you experience its riches, ether on-line or in person.
Find out about our Kaitiakitanga program
We the children of the Whirinaki are the future Kaitiaki (guardians) of the forest. We are doing some radical things in our School and community to make sure that our forest, culture and wisdom is preserved and shared for ever. - Sustainability, ecology, environmental restoration, endangered species.( eg Kiwi)
Join minds with us the Ngati Whare people
Our ancestors have belonged to this place for almost 1000 years. Our Iwi invites you to come not just as a tourist, but to mutually share our rich heritages. Ours is one that has been passed down orally over many generations
Visit Te Kura Toitu o Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi
Learning has always been important to the people in our valley. Successes at our school have inspired Tipu Ake.
We share the Tipu Ake Lifecycle
A leadership model for Innovative Organisations - This we gift for all the world's future childrens
Our gateway, Whaiti has two Maraes, Waikotikoti and Murumurunga. It has a rich pre European history, was a fronteer in the land wars and by 1950 was a booming timber town.
Minginui Village
The place most of us in the valley now call home.
A model village built in 1948 to support the State Forestry and native saw milling in the valley
Our businesses - Organisations and business operations in our in our valley
Know the richness of the place
Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi
Our life-source and the storehouse of all our Taonga [treasure] This sacred place is where the values and
The URL for this the Whirinaki
Portal is
www.whirinaki.org.nz
www.whirinaki.org.nz
NOTICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
13th Sept 2007 - United Nations General Assembly adopts the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
See "Whirinaki Interactive" our Community's Digital Strategy
Thanks to the teams of AUT IT students that have helped us put all these websites together
Thanks to Ministers Horomia, Mallard and many government officials for visiting Te Whaiti to help celebrate the opening of our new merged area school on two sites on 31 Jan 2004. (click here for details)