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May 12th Our moana is changing fast and the warming of our seas is creating new and complex challenges for the life within them. In Aotearoa we are ‘experiencing longer and more intense marine heatwaves that are going beyond the thermal threshold of some of our native kelp populations’ which is having significant effects on…
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17 April 2023 Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Kaiwhakahaere and Te Kura Taka Pini Co-Chair Lisa Tumahai has recently returned to the Ngāi Tahu takiwā after attending The United Nations Water Conference 2023 in New York. The occasion marked the first time in forty-six years that global leaders have come together to address worldwide water…
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Students from the Waitaha and Te Rōhutu Whio schools in Rolleston have been busy learning and actively improving the environment during Kids Discovery Plant-out days with Te Taumutu Rūnanga in Te Waihora catchment.
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MŌ TĀTOU, Ā, MO KĀ URI A MURI AKE NEI – FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN AFTER US By Matiu Wikaira, Technical Forester, Ngāi Tahu Forestry Limited “I te timatanga mai ko te kore – In the beginning there was nothing” Since their arrival from Polynesia, Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, have maintained…
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The rimu are expected to mast in the South this summer, supporting the kākāpō population to breed again. Following highly successful breeding seasons in 2016 and 2019, the kākāpō population is doing well and is currently sitting at 201 individual birds.
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A south island hapū are celebrating a new bylaw that will limit fishing within the Whakaraupō Mātaitai reserve. Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke say the decision from the Ministry of Fisheries is crucial to safeguarding the local fisheries. Henare Te Aika-Puanaki with this story.
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The kākāpō is one of the rarest parrots in the world and every year countless people from around the world, including dozens of hard-working volunteers, give their time and energy trying to save the kākāpō from the brink of extinction. Once widespread in New Zealand, by the time Europeans arrived in the early 1880s, kākāpō…
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Pīngao (Desmoschoenus spiralis), or golden sand sedge is found only in New Zealand and is one of the best sand dune stabilizing plants in coastal areas. It is also a plant of considerable cultural and spiritual significance to Māori. There are legends associated with it and it is highly prized as a durable weaving material….
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