Block the offer – Canterbury
Today, Christchurch City Council considered the National-led Government’s Block Offer 2017 proposal to tender for permits which allow companies to explore for oil and gas Read More
Author: Eugenie Sage
International embarrassment for NZ likely over National’s failure to protect Maui dolphin
New Zealanders who care about Maui dolphin should prepare to feel embarrassed: the Government is about to be put to shame on the international stage for its lack of action to protect Maui’s dolphin.
Vote Sooty Shearwater/Tītī for Bird of the Year
Sooty shearwater are amazing and deserve your vote in Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Year competition. They make one of the longest known bird migrations, flying an annual round trip of 64,000 kms across the entire Pacific Ocean, from NZ to feeding grounds off the coasts of Japan, Alaska and California, and back.
Restrictions on squid fishing needed to help New Zealand’s sea lions
Like the kakapo, New Zealand sea lions/rāpoka are classified as critically endangered. There are only an estimated 11,800 of them left on the planet. Their numbers are falling each year.
“Vigil” for restoration of democracy and clean water in Canterbury
On a grey and chilly spring day, Canterbury artist and writer Sam Mahon, sculptor Alison Erickson and friends erected a beautiful sculpture “Vigil” of Catherine Sintenie outside Environment Canterbury Regional Council’s (ECan’s) lavish new offices in central Christchurch.
Heron Report – our take
The report by independent QC Michael Heron reviewing the Ministry of Primary Industry’s (MPI) failure to prosecute fishing companies or vessels after three compliance operations lays out a sad and sorry tale.
Homelessness Inquiry listens in Christchurch
It was both distressing and inspiring listening to people’s stories of coping with poverty, homelessness, housing insecurity, and cold, damp rentals, and their ideas for change at the Christchurch hearing day for the joint Green, Labour, and Maori Party inquiry into homelessness.
NZ fisheries depend on healthy oceans – better protection needed
The attitude of the fishing industry and the National Government to our oceans, and the life within it, still amazes me. Like many New Zealanders, Read More
Select committee changes Kermadec/Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary Bill
Parliament’s Local Government and Environment Committee has made many changes to the Kermadec/Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary Bill in response to public submissions, particularly submissions from iwi Read More
National’s RMA changes will make it easier for councils to shut out the public voice
Well done Greenpeace in asking the High Court to review the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s decision to not seek public feedback on its decision to extend the area of land that will irrigated by the Ruataniwha dam.