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Environment
Environment – Mixed views on mangroves
At a recent public meeting in Orewa on a conservation plan for the estuary most of the discussion was about mangroves and siltation. The plan...
Environment – Dogs still threatening kiwi
Now that spring is here at last, there is a lot happening in Shakespear Open Sanctuary. Most notable is the safe arrival of our resident...
Environment – Spotlight falls on forests
To the immediate west and north of Orewa are large areas of little known regenerating kauri-podocarp forests. They are coming into focus as farming and...
Environment – Doing our bit for birds
Finally there are Kiwi back at Shakespear Open Sanctuary – their welcome included a very moving powhiri to transfer their kaitiakitanga to our local community....
Environment – A safe haven
While we’ve had a few false starts, the Shakespear Open Sanctuary should receive its first kiwi in a few months. We finally have all...
Environment – Water care needed
Our streams get a hard time. A Council officer told me that somewhere between 100 and 200 kilometres of waterways lose their natural state each...
Environment – Garden a minefield for purists
An activity as apparently simple as gardening can raise quite a few issues of environmental ethics if you are going to be purist about it....
Environment – Regional icon
By Lyn Wade, Little Barrier Island Supporters Trust For many of us, Hauturu/Little Barrier Island appears daily on our horizon as we drive around the...
Environment – Rewarding work
Volunteers are the lifeblood of conservation fieldwork in controlling pest weeds and animals. They decide to give freely of their time because they want to...
Environment – Robin reintroduction planned
While the news from the Shakespear Open Sanctuary is mostly good, sadly I must start with the recent death of Allan Parker. Allan was a...
