We’re on the Radio!

Our team was very excited to have a special visitor at a recent Wicked Weeders session. The Project Tongariro, Greening Taupō, and Kids Greening Taupō teams had the amazing opportunity to be interviewed for RNZ’s “Our Changing World” podcast with Clare Concannon. As we got stuck into another session of weeding and restoration work, Clare was right there alongside us — microphone in hand, capturing the spirit of the work that we do. Our coordinators, some of the Wicked Weeders and our Senior Students had the opportunity to be interviewed and share their views.

Clare Concannon and the team at RNZ’s “Our Changing World” did an amazing job of pulling all of the interviews together and making a podcast that discusses the history of Project Tongariro, Greening Taupō, Kids Greening Taupō and Greening Taupō Day. It was a lot of content and Clare did an incredible job of making it all make sense in an accurate way. She managed to shine a light on the huge range of grassroots conservation and environmental education happening right here in Taupō. While Clare was in town, she also visited local expert, Nick Singers, and well known Project Tongariro volunteer, Shirley Potter, to see the amazing wetland restoration work that they have been doing. This was made into another podcast, ‘The Willows and the Wetland’.

These two podcasts were awesome, but they are pretty lengthy. We were really excited when Clare did an Interview with Jesse Mulligan and discussed her time with us all here in Taupō. This interview is a great concise summary of the two podcasts and worth listening to.

An article with links to both podcasts was released by RNZ too.

Thank you so much Clare, Jesse and the team from RNZ for taking the time to see what we are doing here in Taupō and share it so beautifully and accurately with everyone else in Aotearoa.