Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB), a not-for-profit organisation focused on litter reduction and environmental education, has issued an urgent appeal for funding to sustain its programmes.
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Expert Briefing
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Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB), a not-for-profit organisation focused on litter reduction and environmental education, has issued an urgent appeal for funding to sustain its programmes.
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Expert Briefing
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There is risk of regulatory failure after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to devolve responsibility for genetically engineered “Null segregants” to the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI).
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GE Free NZ
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Minister Judith Collins announcement on the government's target to manage risk on Genetic Engineering (GE) by loosening regulation is a countdown to jeopardy for exports and the natural environment, and also enables the opening for a free trade deal with the USA.
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GE Free NZ
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Mt Maunganui — Bay of Plenty Regional Council has added 11 air sensors to its existing network of 11 monitors in Mount Maunganui, where air pollution is at its greatest concentration.
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Expert Briefing
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The National and ACT parties policy to loosen regulations on GE is unscientific and outdated.
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GE Free NZ
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Wellington — Work is beginning on a critical flood protection project in New Zealand's Hutt Valley.
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Expert Briefing
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Northland — Biosecurity officials in New Zealand are appealing to the public for information after a dead wallaby was found at the side of a highway near Kawakawa on 4 December.
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Expert Briefing
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New Zealand's Parliament has repealed the Natural and Built Environment Act and Spatial Planning Act as part of the government's 100-day programme, according to RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop.
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Expert Briefing
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A report by the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has shown that the use of 1080 increased in 2022.
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Expert Briefing
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New Zealand's University of Canterbury has developed an app to help identify and report on invasive species that threaten the country's flora and fauna.
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Briefing Bot
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The coalition governments’ move to loosen biotechnology (GE) regulation is set to let down farmers and consumers and put New Zealand's export reputation at risk.
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GE Free NZ
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Christchurch — University of Canterbury astronomers at UC Mt John Observatory have co-authored a new Nature paper sharing the results of an international observing campaign conducted over 130 days.
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University of Canterbury
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Northland — A Northland man has been fined more than $33,000 for an incident that saw dozens of large tyres burnt on a property south of Kaiwaka in early January last year.
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Northland Regional Council
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Waikato — Waikato Regional Council has responded to news today that a highly invasive freshwater gold clam has been discovered across a 45km stretch of the Waikato River.
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Waikato Regional Council
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Northland — Northlanders are being asked to keep an eye out for new patches of Manchurian wild rice grass within a formal ‘Eradication Zone’ that covers much of the region amid fears the invasive pest plant could have been spread during recent flooding.
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Northland Regional Council
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Palmerston North — An independent fast-track consenting panel has granted resource consent, with conditions, for a project to redevelop and expand Te Rere Hau wind farm on the Tararua Range, east of Palmerston North.
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Environmental Protection Authority
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Northland — Investigations are underway into the mysterious loss of most of the submerged vegetation in Lake Taharoa, the largest in the Kai Iwi dune lakes group and Northland’s deepest lake.
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Northland Regional Council
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Straterra welcomes Environment Minister David Parker’s announcement that he has asked Parliament’s Environment Select Committee to conduct an inquiry into seabed mining.
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Straterra Inc
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Waikato — Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in the Matamata-Piako district have prompted calls for trucking companies and farmers to improve their practices.
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Waikato Regional Council
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Auckland City — An independent fast-track consenting panel has granted resource consent, subject to conditions, to build 50 residential units and work related to roading, infrastructure and earthworks within the Wairaka Precinct, in Owairaka/Mount Albert, Auckland.
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Environmental Protection Authority
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From Northland to Southland, communities will be wading into their waterways to test what native plant life and animal species are there, thanks to funding from the Environmental Protection Authority’s (EPA) Wai Tuwhera o te Taiao - Open Waters Aotearoa eDNA programme.
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Environmental Protection Authority
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