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Local accommodation can seek DarkSky recognition
DarkSky, the international body responsible for world-wide dark sky accreditation, is offering accommodation providers the chance to be accredited to their just-launched…
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Fire and Emergency says powerless over long grass hazard
Long grass is a key feature in incidental fires which have sparked across the dry, dusty, drought-hit Wairarapa since before Christmas. Despite…
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A Ruamahanga field full of Sunflowers
Students from Kahutara School piled on to the Green Cycle bus to visit Ruamahunga Farm. It was a day for the children…
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Wairārapa Moana wetlands are going wild
Wildlife is flourishing in the wetlands of Wairārapa Moana after three years’ intensive restoration work – and there’s more to come in 2024…
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Lions want to see Little Blue Penguins back on our coast!
Over the past few years Martinborough Lions have put many volunteer hours into supporting the Aorangi Restoration Trust’s efforts to enable the…
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Podocarpus Totara – Tree of the Month
Hot summer days help us appreciate trees like this one – the 70 year old totara in the Waihinga Centre grounds. The…
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Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve headlines 2023
Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve heads the world list of new dark sky places set out by the international body which gives the…
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Human behaviour crisis drives earth overshoot
Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month after Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective…
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EV charger/s needed in tourist town Martinborough?
More than 101,000 electric cars _ EVs _ drive New Zealand roads, with more and more coming down the pipe _ or…
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Native forests coming back to South Wairarapa
Great progress is being made on native tree planting of “forest corridors” across the lower valley of South Wairarapa. The 2023 planting…
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Astros shoot for moon with World Space Week
With South Wairarapa and Carterton a newly accredited Dark Sky Reserve, it comes as no surprise that World Space Week is now…
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Under The Martinborough Stars
Most people know that the sun is a star, and the stars are other suns further away. But are they really like…
