Category Archive

The second annual New Zealand River Awards will be announced this Thursday evening in Wellington. The Awards recognise the most improved river in each region where there’s robust data, and also identifies the three most improved rivers in the country. … Read More

Yesterday we launched Predator Free New Zealand, a new initiative that the Morgan Foundation are involved with. Predator Free New Zealand has been set up to support the efforts of the many community groups already out there eradicating and controlling predators. To … Read More

Last week we raised the issue of poo in our rivers, and how it is making us sick. As we saw in our review of the Government’s fresh water standards, bacteria from poo is just one of the many issues … Read More

Many of our waterways are full of excrement. As you’d expect, this stuff poses a massive health issue for people that want to swim in or drink the water from our streams, rivers, lakes and even aquifers. Between 18,000-34,000 Kiwis … Read More

This week is Conservation Week and to celebrate each day our blogs will focus on a different conservation issue. Over the weekend China, the Ukraine and Russia rejected New Zealand and the United States’ bid to create the world’s largest … Read More

Fonterra’s 2014 Annual Report makes for impressive reading when it comes to water quality. Dairy farmers are voluntarily making huge progress fencing and planting waterways, and ensuring that when stock have to cross rivers, they do so on a bridge. … Read More

What does National’s resounding election win mean for our rivers? As we found in our review of the Government’s water quality framework, we have serious reasons to doubt their commitment to ‘maintain or improve our waterways’. Our concerns are growing … Read More

With the election out of the way, our focus is going back on our waterways. In coming months we are going to drill down into some of the issues that are facing our fresh water. First out of the blocks … Read More