The Environment Select Committee today recommended that this Bill be passed with minor amendments. It will create 12 new high protection areas, five new seafloor protection areas and two extensions to existing marine reserves. The boundaries of the areas to be protected are unchanged from those initially set out in...
Releasing exotic fish into waterways upsets natural ecosystems, by forcing native species to compete for habitat, degrading water quality, introducing parasites and disease, and depleting native insects, fish eggs and plants. They can breed quickly, making it difficult to get rid of them. Pet birds can upset the delicate ecosystem...
A very enjoyable time was had by a small group of CTA members at the home of Martin Law, “Painter of Paradise,” in Mt Eden. Martin’s works have featured as an event in the Auckland Heritage Festival, and, on the afternoon of Saturday 15 June, he made us welcome to...
Tāmaki Makaurau has been recognised as a Tree City of the World by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This is the fourth year running we have received this international accreditation, being one of 200 cities recognised this year, in the Tree...
The closure of the Leys Institute in December 2019, the 4 years of community consultation and the advocacy of the Waitematā Local Board for the seismic strengthening and restoration of these treasured regionally and nationally significant heritage buildings have been reported on in several earlier CTA posts. Friends of Leys...
CTA’s submission on the government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill was one of around 27,000 submissions, and we were one of the many groups that also presented at the select committee hearings. Our president spoke on our behalf on 27 May and can be seen in this video from 1:03:54 – 1:13:30....
This fund (NHPIF), administered by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga to assist with projects to conserve privately owned places on the New Zealand Heritage List Rārangi Kōrero, closes on 21 June, with decisions made by the Board in August. Priorities for funding grants are: conservation and preservation of sites of...
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has released these stories about mid-century Waiatarau Freemans Bay, from the memories of Janice Cheeseman, who was 6 years old when living there with her family. https://visit-heritage.shorthandstories.com/big-enough-for-our-family-of-three/index.html
The government wants to start looking for oil and gas in New Zealand’s ocean. Five years ago, backed by an unprecedented people-powered campaign, the Green Party in Government banned fossil fuel corporations from looking for oil and gas in New Zealand’s ocean. We need to take a strong stand to...
The Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill has been tabled, the first of two amendments to the RMA. It will make the following changes to the principal Act and national direction made under it: It will exclude the hierarchy of Te Mana o te Wai in the National...