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Cantabrian Mural Celebrates Annual 11,000km Migration

Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 1:37 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Artist Robert Scanlan has unveiled his award-winning mural titled ‘Southern Migration of the Godwit’ in New Brighton, Christchurch. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2312/99615540acf8774e828f.jpeg" width="720" height="200"> Mr Scanlan was one of ten winners ... More >>

Winning Entries For The 2023 Young Reporters For The Environment Competition Announced

Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 3:05 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) national Litter Less Competition. The annual competition gives young people aged 11-25 years a platform to research environmental issues and ... More >>

Finalists Of New Zealand’s Most Beautiful Towns And Cities Announced

Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 4:23 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful have announced the finalists and recipients of their Beautiful Awards 2023, including Aotearoa’s Most Beautiful Towns and Most Beautiful Cities. The iconic not-for-profit organisation has held the Beautiful Awards annually ... More >>

Award-winning Mural Unveiled In Pukekohe, Auckland

Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 1:58 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Auckland artist, Brigita Botma, has unveiled her award-winning mural titled, ‘Harmony', on the BNZ wall in Pukekohe's town centre. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2210/c623ff8d0cf52c2f924e.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> Brigita was one of ten winners ... More >>

New Workshops Helping Students Become Climate Ready From Their Classrooms

Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 2:44 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Flexible workshops designed to help students understand the impacts of climate change, and how they can make a difference Keep New Zealand Beautiful, an iconic not-for-profit organisation that this year celebrates its 55 year milestone, has today launched ... More >>

New Citizen Science Project Tackles Upstream Battle Of Waste

Monday, 14 February 2022, 3:50 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

A new citizen science programme called Upstream Battle is today being launched by iconic charity Keep New Zealand Beautiful. The programme aims to identify the most common on-land sources and types of litter, using volunteers and citizen science ... More >>

Award-winning Mural Unveiled In Rotorua

Thursday, 18 November 2021, 1:57 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Artist, Mark Noble, has unveiled his award-winning mural titled, ‘U R Nature’, on the corner of Te Ngae Road and Basley Road in Rotorua. Mark was one of ten winners from across the country who took out the top prize in Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s ... More >>

Students Receive International Recognition in Competition

Tuesday, 7 September 2021, 4:12 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful are excited to announce that five New Zealand students have won top awards at the 2021 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) International competition. These five students were all winners from the national New Zealand Young ... More >>

Spotswood College, unveils award winning mural

Thursday, 3 December 2020, 9:51 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Spotswood College in New Plymouth has unveiled their award-winning mural, titled ‘Nga Atua’ as one of ten winners in Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Resene Wall Worthy Competition 2020. The mural was designed by two junior students and depicts ... More >>

Wellington to get two new environmental murals

Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 2:17 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Two Wellington artists have won national awards for their environmental mural designs as part of the Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB) Nature Murals competition. More >>

Dunedin named Most Beautiful City in KNZB Beautiful Awards

Friday, 26 October 2018, 10:06 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB) were excited to announce the winners of this year's Beautiful Awards at a gala dinner held at the Auckland Maritime Room this evening. More >>

Artists invited to Paint New Zealand Beautiful in 2018

Thursday, 18 January 2018, 10:49 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful, in partnership with Resene, are excited to announce the opening of the 2018 Nature Murals Competition, open to local artists who are willing to Do The Right Thing and help paint New Zealand beautiful. Submissions open on 1st ... More >>

Blue Flag accreditation for Barefoot Sailing

Thursday, 7 December 2017, 9:09 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Rachael Biggins (left), from Barefoot Sailing, receives the Blue Flag Award from NZB Education Manager, Christine White. More >>

Introducing the new board of Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Sunday, 15 October 2017, 11:38 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

During its 50th anniversary celebrations, The Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society, Inc. (KNZB) has announced that Alexandra Davids has been named the organisation’s new Chairperson. More >>

Masterton named New Zealand’s most beautiful city

Saturday, 14 October 2017, 12:02 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful were thrilled to announce the winners of the 2017 Beautiful Awards at a Gala Dinner, held at the Craggy Range Vineyard in Hastings on Friday evening. Masterton took out the top prize for Most Beautiful City, with Greytown ... More >>

Clean up of Okahu and Mission Bay

Monday, 11 September 2017, 3:13 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Keep New Zealand Beautiful (KNZB) Clean Up Week is now officially live! Our first few events took place over the weekend and we have upwards of 700 events taking place between now and Sunday. More >>

Painting Wellington beautiful to eradicate graffiti

Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 11:29 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

A wall at 153 Cuba Street is set to get a make-over with an environmental message this week thanks to the Paint New Zealand Beautiful initiative run by Keep New Zealand Beautiful. More >>

NZ largest litter clean up is on next week

Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 3:09 pm | Keep NZ Beautiful

Thousands of tidy kiwis have rallied together to take part in NZ's largest clean up event which is on next week! More >>

News Release from Keep NZ Beautiful Chairman

Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 11:41 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

Commenting on The Christchurch Press editorial, this morning Keep NZ Beautiful Chairman, John Riddell, agrees that Auckland has got it right by having an annual inorganic collection from inside peoples boundaries. More >>

Boost for innovative recycling projects

Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:23 am | Keep NZ Beautiful

For the third year running, this Keep New Zealand Beautiful led initiative will see nearly $180,000 injected into community initiatives across the country, to educate and encourage people to recycle more, thanks to the Coca-Cola Foundation Grants Programme. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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