Environment

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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…

Feb 2025

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Farewell to a native species dying in the lake?

Freshwater kākahi – native mussels once a key food source in Lake Wairarapa – face potential extinction as they pay the cost…

Nov 2024

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Green energy buffs living Off the Grid

Up on the heights of Martinborough, Frank and Lisa Cornelissen have built their new home. Wanting to conserve energy and be as…

Nov 2024

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Martinborough hosts Wairarapa’s first regional park – a plantation forest

Hiwinui, Wairarapa’s first regional park, could be set up and ready for visitors within three years – just 10 minutes drive from…

Nov 2024

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Spades, shovels, grubbers, wheel barrows – Spring cleaning

Piles of mulch several cubic meters in size, gumboots, tools and saplings – some up to four meters high after four years’…

Nov 2024

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Dark Sky group sees national lighting controls protecting heritage

Martinborough’s founding dark sky reserve group had an early lucky break – streetlights across Wairarapa’s towns were about to be changed in…

Nov 2024

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Workshops focus on sustainability: Divine River

Local workshops which promise hands-on activities like making foot scrubs, bath salts, and lip balms, with a strong emphasis on environmental awareness,…

Nov 2024

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Predator control to help save species

Fledgling birds are in their unprotected nests and predators – particularly rats, mice and possums – are skipping up the trees in…

Oct 2024

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Hua-angarua river-side planting project starts well

Recloaking the banks of the Hua-angarua River with native species has begun with 40 volunteers turning out to put 600 plants into…

Oct 2024

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Community patrol car goes Electric

Martinborough Community Patrol (MBCP) are now the proud owners of an Electric Nissan Leaf. The time had come to retire the old…

Oct 2024

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Wairarapa Moana Spring planting

Everyone is welcome to join the next planting day for Wairarapa Moana restoration – Sunday 29 September at Lake Domain, near Featherston.…

Sept 2024

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Te Kopi dismayed by untrue fly-tipping connection

Facts: Te Kopi on the south coast is a small family-owned settlement of 17 mostly baches with just three permanent residents. The…

Sept 2024

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