Environment
Canada geese problem takes off – who’s doing anything?
By Martin Freeth South Wairarapa farmers resumed their cull of canada geese this summer _ but bird numbers are ever-increasing and so…
By Martin Freeth South Wairarapa farmers resumed their cull of canada geese this summer _ but bird numbers are ever-increasing and so…
Freshwater kākahi – native mussels once a key food source in Lake Wairarapa – face potential extinction as they pay the cost…
Up on the heights of Martinborough, Frank and Lisa Cornelissen have built their new home. Wanting to conserve energy and be as…
Hiwinui, Wairarapa’s first regional park, could be set up and ready for visitors within three years – just 10 minutes drive from…
Piles of mulch several cubic meters in size, gumboots, tools and saplings – some up to four meters high after four years’…
Martinborough’s founding dark sky reserve group had an early lucky break – streetlights across Wairarapa’s towns were about to be changed in…
Local workshops which promise hands-on activities like making foot scrubs, bath salts, and lip balms, with a strong emphasis on environmental awareness,…
Fledgling birds are in their unprotected nests and predators – particularly rats, mice and possums – are skipping up the trees in…
Recloaking the banks of the Hua-angarua River with native species has begun with 40 volunteers turning out to put 600 plants into…
Martinborough Community Patrol (MBCP) are now the proud owners of an Electric Nissan Leaf. The time had come to retire the old…
Everyone is welcome to join the next planting day for Wairarapa Moana restoration – Sunday 29 September at Lake Domain, near Featherston.…
Facts: Te Kopi on the south coast is a small family-owned settlement of 17 mostly baches with just three permanent residents. The…