Environment

The Greater Wellington Regional Council is calling for people to heed the fire bans in the region’s Parks following a small fire at Porirua’s Whitireia […]

Wellington is one of four regional council forest areas that has been registered for carbon credits. Wellington Regional Council has applied to the Ministry for […]

Vendor registrations are now open for the 2013 Kāpiti Sustainable Home and Garden Show. The Sustainable Home and Garden Show for 2013 is shaping up […]

The community is to have much greater say about water quality and allocation limits in the region’s rivers, lakes and aquifers, under a plan approved […]

There is a local call to help save the Waikanae River from what many see as a serious threat from proposals to construct a river […]

A group restoring Queen Elizabeth Park on the Kāpiti Coast, children from Raumati South School, volunteers working on pest trapping and monitoring in the Rimutaka […]

Regional water news Only a third of the usual rainfall fell in the Wellington region’s main water catchments in November, reinforcing the need to prepare […]

“This weekend a new era in public access to Kāpiti Island begins with DOC’s increasing of visitor numbers to 150 per day, 363 days of […]

We’re back to usual 1st Sunday of the month working bees now.Well, what a great day for the Rugby Legends planting.About 80 volunteers along with […]

Applications for the 2012 Encore Awards close on Friday 14 September. The awards recognise those who improve the environment in some way or reduce the […]