Waitakere City Council and Te Kawerau a Maki
Trust have developed ‘The Guardians of the Mauri’, an
animated underwater adventure, as a classroom resource about
life in an urban stream.
Two young fish are confronted by pollution from our urban
lifestyles as they swim upstream to find Te Awhiorangi, the
taniwha. Also provided in Maori as ‘Nga Kaitiaki o Te Mauri’
the story challenges viewers to realise that they have a
part to play to protect local streams.
The second in Waitakere City Council’s
‘Focus on’ series of educational resources, ‘The Guardians
of the Mauri’ follows ‘Focus on Bugs’, which was produced in
2002.
