Listen to Kia Whakanuia te Whenua - the Podcast

Māori-led, the book explores the spirit of whenua and how it is embedded in place through identity and naming. It confronts the pain of alienation and whenua loss for all indigenous peoples and looks at how that can be transformed.

Thomas Woltz is the Patron of the Landscape Foundation. He is also a contributor to the landscape Foundations book - Kia Whakanui te Whenua.

We are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of the Waiari Macmillan’s illustrations from the book as fine art prints. They are available in a range of sizes and also as sets.

The Landscape Foundations first publication Kia Whakanuia te Whenua is Maori led. As Dame Anne Salmond says in her forward to Kia Whakanuia te Whenua.

The Landscape Foundation Trustees are seeking Expressions for new Trustees. In January 2021 a resolution was passed to increase the number of Trustees from five to eight.

We find ourselves in an era of significant engagement with the past: the NZ Wars and Raupatu land confiscations of the 1860s are of particular relevance to how we reconcile ‘Difficult Histories’ in Aotearoa. This NZ War history, its narratives, places and events are being revisited over 150 years on.