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Tūpuna Maunga Network To Close Due To Potential Weather Disruption

Saturday, 11 April 2026, 2:02 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

All Tūpuna Maunga will be closed from regular closing time the evening of Saturday 11 April until morning of Monday 13 April pending weather conditions. The safety of the maunga, our staff, and the public is our highest priority as there may be ... More >>

Guy Fawkes: Sixth Year Of Maunga Closures Shows Strong Public Support, Despite Isolated Incidents

Friday, 7 November 2025, 5:37 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Across the 14 Tūpuna Maunga, hundreds of people were engaged with by our security teams, with the vast majority expressing support for the closures. More >>

Further Upgrades At Takarunga / Mt Victoria To Enhance Visitor Experience

Monday, 13 October 2025, 4:29 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Cultural narratives are central to the design, with mana whenua artist and research scholarship recipient, Arapeta Hākura embedding stories of migration, unity, and connection throughout the courts and bus facilities. More >>

Protecting The Tūpuna Maunga: Fire Safety Closures Return For 2025

Friday, 3 October 2025, 11:21 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

All 14 Tūpuna Maunga will be closed to the public in the evenings during the Guy Fawkes period to reduce the risk of fireworks-related fires. More >>

Tūpuna Maunga Research Scholarship 2025/2026 Opens For Applications

Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 10:58 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The scholarship was developed under the Authority’s education strategy and is grounded in the values and aspirations set out in the Integrated Management Plan (IMP) More >>

Love Your Maunga – Matariki At Māngere Mountain

Monday, 23 June 2025, 3:53 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

This special edition of Love Your Maunga will take place at the award-winning Whānau Ātea at the base of Te Pane o Mataoho / Te Ara Pueru / Māngere Mountain, and promises a day full of fun, mātauranga Māori, and connection with community and whenua. More >>

Love Your Maunga – Matariki At Māngere Mountain

Monday, 23 June 2025, 3:53 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

This special edition of Love Your Maunga will take place at the award-winning Whānau Ātea at the base of Te Pane o Mataoho / Te Ara Pueru / Māngere Mountain, and promises a day full of fun, mātauranga Māori, and connection with community and whenua. More >>

Breathing New Life Into Takarunga/ Mt Victoria: Revitalising The Summit

Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 11:47 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Tūpuna Maunga Authority Chairperson, Paul Majurey, says, “we are guided by a vision to better acknowledge the wairuatanga, mana aotūroa, takotoranga whenua, mauri pūnaha hauropi, mana hononga tangata, wahi rawa whakauka and mana whai a Rēhia for each ... More >>

Celebrate Culture And Conservation At Love Your Maunga Event At Te Pane O Mataoho / Te Ara Pueru / Māngere Mountain

Thursday, 7 November 2024, 1:20 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Love Your Maunga event will feature activities designed to engage, educate, and inspire the whole whānau. Each Love Your Maunga event will support a different local partner to help fund initiatives within the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area. More >>

Devasting Fire On Maungarei / Mt Wellington Underscores Importance Of Maunga Protections

Friday, 1 November 2024, 4:49 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Paul Majurey, Chairperson of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority, says these fires cause significant harm to these iconic taonga and pose a real risk to people and property, as well as a needless strain on Fire and Emergency services. More >>

Keeping The Tūpuna Maunga Protected From Guy Fawkes Fire Damage.

Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 12:22 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority will once again be closing the Maunga leading up to Guy Fawkes due to devastating fires in 2019 and 2020. This will be the fourth consecutive year the Tūpuna Maunga have been protected from fire damage during Guy Fawkes season. ... More >>

Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill New Auto-gate Significantly Damaged

Friday, 6 October 2023, 3:08 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Early this morning, Tūpuna Maunga Authority received news from the site maintenance team that the recently built auto-gate at the Manukau Road entrance at Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill had been significantly damaged. On early inspection, this morning, ... More >>

Contractor assaulted in Tūpuna Maunga Authority restoration programme following Court rejection of injunction bid

Sunday, 30 July 2023, 6:46 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority began the next phase of native vegetation restoration work at Ōtāhuhu / Mt Richmond on 24 July 2023, including health and safety work required after the flood and cyclone earlier this year. This follows the previous ... More >>

Remediation Works Begin On Tūpuna Maunga

Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 10:20 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority will be undertaking remedial tree removal works today and tomorrow on Te Kōpuke / Tītīkōpuke / Mt St John and Ōhinerau / Mt Hobson. A large mature pine tree has fallen on the Ōhinerau track and a large olive tree ... More >>

Tūpuna Maunga Authority readies for tropical Cyclone Gabrielle

Sunday, 12 February 2023, 2:27 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority is undertaking action to secure the Tūpuna Maunga in the event of Cyclone Gabrielle hitting Tāmaki Makaurau over the next few days. As part of the initial response to the storm that hit Tāmaki Makaurau on 27 January, ... More >>

Tūpuna Maunga Authority Move Swiftly And Take Action At Ōwairaka Slip

Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 7:32 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority team has been working tirelessly to support whānau and whenua across affected areas of Tāmaki Makaurau specific to Tūpuna Maunga since the state of emergency took place. The team are continuing to assess all affected ... More >>

Guy Fawkes: Maunga Closures A Success, Though Fireworks Risk Ever-present

Friday, 4 November 2022, 11:29 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority thanks the people of Tāmaki Makaurau for their overwhelming support in protecting the iconic Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountains) during this 2022 Guy Fawkes season. From 2-6 November, the Maunga are closed to the public each ... More >>

Guy Fawkes 2022 – Time Again To Keep The Tūpuna Maunga Safe From Fire

Friday, 7 October 2022, 10:38 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Aucklanders are being asked again this Guy Fawkes to help the Tūpuna Maunga Authority to protect the 14 ancestral mountains that are precious taonga. To that end, the Tūpuna Maunga will be closed to the public in the evenings from Wednesday 2 November ... More >>

Tūpuna Maunga Authority Begins Integrated Management Plan Amendment Process

Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 10:25 am | Tupuna Maunga Authority

The Tūpuna Maunga Authority has called for public submissions on the proposed amendment to its award-winning Integrated Management Plan 2016. The new section details proposed ecological restoration projects (including the planting of native species and removal ... More >>

Restoration Of Auckland Tūpuna Maunga Paves Way For Inner City Pest Free Zones

Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 1:22 pm | Tupuna Maunga Authority

Ngā Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau are among the most significant cultural, historical, and geological (volcanic) landscapes in Tāmaki Makaurau and are iconic taonga. Over the next three years, the Tūpuna Maunga Authority will be working with ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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