10Nov 16, 2012
Healthy lakes and rivers are surely something that virtually every New Zealander cares about. New Zealanders use freshwater in many ways… for instance as a source of kai, to irrigate a crop, to turn the turbines of a power station, or to partake in their favourite sport. As a result, it’s not easy to get […]
11Mar 3, 2009
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 […]
12Jan 26, 2009
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 […]
13Nov 3, 2008
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 […]
14Oct 13, 2008
“The Mokihinui hydro scheme is the largest 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 […]