The Bamboo Project
The Bamboo Project
With the support of He aka ka toro navigation fund with MBIE, The Erana Kaunga Tuhura Whānau Trust (EKTW Trust) is transforming a small part of a block of whenua Māori on the East Coast of Aotearoa, by developing a small-scale sustainable bamboo forest. The EKTW Trust aims to bring environmental, economic, and cultural benefit to the Tairāwhiti region by leading the growth of bamboo as an economically significant non-timber forest product. There is a trend in changing customer preference for non-plastic products. Bamboo is globally realised as a high value crop, yet remains completely underdeveloped as a raw and sustainable material in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The outcome will be understanding if the soil and conditions have promoted the productive growth of the species captured through measuring circumference and height of bamboo samples.
The EKTW aims to extend its knowledge of land productivity and support forestry leadership by weaving mātauranga Māori and western science and aims to look at the growth of the industry to see how Bamboo could be productively utilized in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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About Us
The Erana Kaunga Tuhura Whānau Trust are a not-for-profit family collective who are the descendants of Erana Kaunga Tuhura Ferris/Coulter from the East Coast of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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