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EXPLORING the MANAWATU ESTUARY

Launch of Educational CD Rom
Available for $30 by sending order to Manawatu Estuary Trust, PO Box 11, Foxton Beach or contact us.

Mayor of Horowhenua District Council officially announced the launch of the Educational CD Rom on Friday November 19th at the Pals Building at Foxton Beach.

Abigail Allan, a student based at the New Zealand Centre for Precision Agriculture, offered to make this educational CD Rom so the Manawatu Estuary Trust gained funding from the Central and Eastern Community Trust fund, the Kingdom Foundation and private sponsors to commission her to undertake this project.

The estuary is a wetland and as such is complex with many facets to it. These facets are, (using all of the big words) ecological, social, cultural, environmental, ornithological, botanical, astronomical, recreational, geographical and geological and they have been put into an educational framework that is easy to understand.

Exploring the Manawatu Estuary CD Rom is packed with a lot of information and can be for general interest to find out about the various bird, fish and plant species and how they manage with the different levels of fresh and sea water, how tides work or estuaries are formed, which Maori groups lived near it and what uses they made of the area. For the recreational users there is how to respect the area and when you think about why the birds, fish and plants are there they don’t really deserve to be disturbed by people, dogs and vehicles.

It is a great asset to help the area have its value recognised and it is available at cost price by sending $30 to MET, PO Box 11, Foxton Beach; phoning Joan Leckie on 06 368 1277 or Christina Paton 06 363 5323 malimidwe@paradise.net.nz

Photos on this page by Brian Tyler (Wrybill) and Judith Tyler