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Ashburton River access – some people never learn
Tuesday, 2 December 2014, 10:49 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury today expressed outrage at the removal of a structure designed to protect endangered black-billed gulls (tarāpunga) on the Ashburton River/Hakatere. The latest incident, on the weekend of 29 November, closely followed something similar ... More >>
Water Shortage Direction for Opihi River and tributaries
Friday, 28 November 2014, 2:35 pm | Environment Canterbury
A Water Shortage Direction for the Opihi River and its tributaries – which includes the Opuha River and Lake Opuha – will come into force from Monday December 1 for a term of 14 days. More >>
OOP Zone Committee meeting focuses on water quality modeling
Thursday, 27 November 2014, 4:43 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Orari-Opihi-Pareora (OOP) Zone Committee will meet in Timaru on Monday 1 December for its final monthly water management of the year. The meeting will begin with an update on the installation of water meters in zone and the data gathered to date More >>
River flows low following settled dry weather & low rainfall
Thursday, 20 November 2014, 12:47 pm | Environment Canterbury
River flows in all Canterbury foothill rivers have been exceptionally low this Spring due to a long period of settled and dry weather starting in August and running into November. More >>
Upper Waitaki Zone Committee meeting
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 11:58 am | Environment Canterbury
The Upper Waitaki Zone Committee will meet for its regular monthly meeting on Friday 21 November in Twizel. The meeting will begin by giving members of the public a chance to contribute before it goes on to receive an update on the Immediate Steps biodiversity ... More >>
Lower Waitaki Zone Committee focuses on water limits
Monday, 17 November 2014, 5:10 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Lower Waitaki – South Coastal Canterbury Zone Committee will meet in Kurow for its monthly water management meeting onWednesday, 19 November. More >>
Te Waihora restoration project a New Zealand first
Monday, 17 November 2014, 3:52 pm | Environment Canterbury
When the massive beds of naturally-occurring macrophytes (karepō seed beds) disappeared from Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere in the 1960s, it was a turning point for the quality of the lake’s water. More >>
Honda funds skink habitat at Oxford preschool
Monday, 17 November 2014, 3:38 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Honda TreeFund is funding an Oxford preschool’s native planting project, aimed at creating a habitat for skinks. More >>
Endangered gulls now more vulnerable
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 10:13 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury today expressed disappointment and frustration at the removal of a structure designed to protect endangered black-billed gulls (tarāpunga) on the Ashburton River/Hakatere. More >>
Wetland conservation priority for South Canterbury dairy
Thursday, 6 November 2014, 2:05 pm | Environment Canterbury
South Canterbury farmers Kevin and Karen O’Kane are protecting a native fish close to extinction in Canterbury while converting a dryland sheep and beef farm to dairying. More >>
Amuri Irrigation environmental strategy gets big tick
Wednesday, 5 November 2014, 4:01 pm | Environment Canterbury
Amuri Irrigation Company’s (AIC) Environmental Management Strategy has been given the big tick by Environment Canterbury – the first farm-level environmental management strategy the regional council has approved under its new Hurunui and Waiau River ... More >>
Health Impact assessment findings to inform Air Plan
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 11:53 am | Environment Canterbury
Canterbury’s Air Plan is being updated for the first time in more than ten years to make sure everything is being done to ensure the community has clean, healthy air to breathe. More >>
Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee Meeting: Nutrient management
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 10:26 am | Environment Canterbury
The Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee will meet in Waiau on Monday, 20 October, for its monthly water management meeting. The meeting will begin with an update from the Regional Committee before it goes on to consider a weed control project near the ... More >>
Chilean needle grass campaign increases awareness
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 9:42 am | Environment Canterbury
The public should be on high alert for Chilean needle grass this growing season following an extensive winter campaign to educate rural New Zealand. More >>
Community invited to play its part in local water management
Wednesday, 24 September 2014, 12:36 pm | Environment Canterbury
People throughout Canterbury are being invited to express their interest in joining one of the water management committees set up in 2010 and 2011 as part of the collaborative Canterbury Water Management Strategy. Christina Robb, Programme Manager Canterbury ... More >>
Community invited to play its part in local water management
Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 2:23 pm | Environment Canterbury
People throughout Canterbury are being invited to express their interest in joining one of the water management committees set up in 2010 and 2011 as part of the collaborative Canterbury Water Management Strategy. More >>
Canterbury Weedbuster Awards announced
Friday, 19 September 2014, 4:49 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury and the Department of Conservation today announced winners of the biennial Weedbuster Awards. More >>
Hinds/Hekeao Plains the focus of Variation 2
Thursday, 18 September 2014, 12:35 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury announced today that it would notify Variation 2 of the proposed Land & Water Regional Plan for public submissions on Saturday 27 September 2014. Environment Canterbury Commissioner Peter Skelton says all Cantabrians, and particularly ... More >>
Hanging Rock planting creates bat habitat
Thursday, 18 September 2014, 10:27 am | Environment Canterbury
A recent grant is helping South Canterbury farmer Alan Cone fast-track restoring a wetland where endangered long-tailed native bats have been found. More >>
No prosecution for fuel spill
Tuesday, 9 September 2014, 2:22 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury today announced its decision not to prosecute Mobil Oil New Zealand Ltd for the spill from its tank farm at Lyttelton on 5 March 2014. More >>
