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'Welcome to Rotorua' is what the logo brand
will be on the largest wetlands to be built on lake Rotorua.
Is it Hollywood or even Wellywood? No, it's Rotorua's newest wetlands
to be built on Lake Rotorua close to the city's airport.
These councils are working very hard to inform farmers and others
around the lakes to take care.
500,000 recycled coke bottles will be recycled
and transformed into a 5100-square metre floating fibre mat
like this one in Ohinemutu.
However, the greatest thing to us Maori
is that it has also become home for the crayfish
who have inhabited the wetlands.
Although the swans are a favourite with tourists,
the problem is they are also responsible
for fouling up the lakes.
The wetlands will cost almost a million dollars,
but it is believed the benefits from such an initiative
will be invaluable.
Over the next few years, these wetlands will be built
on other lakes throughout the Rotorua region.
Hinerangi Goodman, Te Karere.