Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:03 am – Posted by Mike Joy | 10 Comments
Guest Bloggers: Mike Joy, a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at Massey University & Masters student Amber McEwan
Of all our threatened endemic iconic species there is only one that almost all New Zealanders have come in contact with. Our other threatened species are on offshore islands or in very hard to access places, seen only by a select few. But this one, can, or at least could until very recently be found literally in many people’s back yards or within walking distance, it was accessible to almost everyone. This beautiful and enigmatic natural treasure is under immediate threat from a very small group of people with the active collusion of a government department.
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Tags: commercial eeling, extinction, freshwater, longfin eels, ministry of fisheries
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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 8:34 am – Posted by Janet Hunt | No Comments
Guest blogger: 2008 Montana book-award winner* & Hauraki Islands committee member, Janet Hunt.
World wetland day 2009 approaches. Globally, it’s actually the 2nd of February and is a celebration of the signing of the international agreement for the protection of wetlands known as the Ramsar Treaty. In New Zealand this year most of the events will be over the nearest convenient weekend, 31st January–1 February.
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Tags: freshwater, wetland, wetlands
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Mon, 03 Nov 2008 3:15 pm – Posted by Mike Joy | 2 Comments
Freshwater quality in New Zealand has reached crisis point.
Decades of treating our rivers as convenient waste removal systems is now coming back to haunt us.
New Zealand lakes, rivers and streams have experienced and continue to experience exponential increases in pressure from farming intensification, residential subdivision, wastewater discharges, water abstraction, erosion from bad land management and a multitude of other impacts.
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Tags: extinction, fish, freshwater
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 3:44 pm – Posted by Debs | 2 Comments
“The Mokihinui hydro scheme is the largest scale proposed flooding of public conservation land in New Zealand since the Manapouri scheme of the late 1960s and early 1970s. If approved, and constructed, it will be the largest inundation for hydro electric generation purposes of lands and ecosystems set aside for protection and conservation ever seen in this country.”…
So states DOC’s opening statements at the hearing on whether or not Meridian Energy – our so-called environmentally friendly, and State-owned energy company – can dam the pristine Mokihinui River to generate power.
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Published in: West Coast
Tags: Add new tag, Energy, freshwater, hydro-dams
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