Category Archive

Antarctic Tourism: Leave Nothing But (Frozen) Footprints

Geoff SimmonsApril 8, 2013Environment

Could hordes of tourists collectively achieve what mining companies have failed to do in Antarctica and stuff the place up? In 1991 the signatories to the Antarctic Treaty reached a landmark agreement to keep miners off the White Continent, but … Read More

Dire Dairy Desperados

Gareth MorganMarch 13, 2013Economics, Environment

Resorting to stuffing their cows with palm kernel in response to the drought-induced shortage of pasture, is just the latest instance of a New Zealand dairy industry that continues to take more and more risk in order to keep the … Read More

Support for Morgan’s Cat Campaign Just Keeps Growing

Gareth MorganMarch 4, 2013Environment, Morgan Foundation

My cat campaign may have got some people’s backs up, but it is attracting a growing level of support. Meanwhile the beleaguered SPCA, in the gun for its policy of supporting stray cats that wander and slaughter, is facing a … Read More

Calling all Cat Spotters – Let us know where cats are roaming

Gareth MorganFebruary 28, 2013Environment

We want YOU to keep an eye out for wandering cats and let us know if there are any cat colonies in your neighbourhood. You can also sign up for updates on cat colonies in your area. Calling all Cat … Read More

Morgan Foundation’s Cleaner Rivers Campaign

Gareth MorganFebruary 17, 2013Environment

The news about the quality of water in New Zealand’s stream, lakes, estuaries and rivers is depressingly consistent – freshwater quality is deteriorating at a rapid pace, under siege from the rapid expansion of intensified dairy farming, urban waste practices … Read More

Gareth Morgan’s Challenge to Citizens of Karori

Gareth MorganFebruary 14, 2013Environment

To deliver on the vision of a predator free New Zealand and a renewal of our native wildlife, let’s start right here in Wellington, by building on the halo created by our own sanctuary Zealandia. This is the challenge Gareth … Read More

Key Antarctica Trip More than Waving at Penguins

Gareth MorganJanuary 17, 2013Environment, Politics

No sooner is our venerable leader back from Hawaii, but he is off to Antarctica. But don’t be fooled – this is more than a jolly to hang out with penguins; the change in temperature alone will come as quite … Read More

Farmers in a Quandary – Perspective from the Pub

Gareth MorganDecember 12, 2012Economics, Environment

Spending a couple of hours in a pub in South Canterbury talking to the locals last week there were two topics of interest. Will Jamie Joseph be able to overcome the ‘big noter’ syndrome from the recent Wellington imports to … Read More

National’s Change in Heart on Kyoto – Rationale of Convenience?

Gareth MorganDecember 11, 2012Environment

Trade Minister Tim Groser says its nuts complying with a regime that applies to only 15% of global emissions and so on that basis he has abandoned New Zealand’s commitment to the Kyoto reduction of carbon emissions and instead declared … Read More

Minister mouthpiece for dirty dairy

Gareth MorganNovember 26, 2012Environment

Horizons Regional Council in the central North Island has done what all regional councils should do. It has taken its responsibilities to the public as outlined in the Resource Management Act seriously. Horizons came up with a plan which will … Read More

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