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...
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...
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...
CTA submissions to Auckland Council have often included words like the following: “We suggest that there should be much less building waste. Too much existing building fabric gets thrown out, including native timber, and there should be the necessary investment in education and the development of rules to encourage or...
Since cameras were installed on 127 commercial fishing boats, reports of dolphin captures have increased by 680% while albatross captures and fish dumping have also increased hugely. This shows that cameras on boats work, but this information must be made available. This Greenpeace petition calls on the government to make...
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12 countries and 100 cities (to date) are seeking a negotiating mandate for a Fossil Fuel Treaty. These countries are: Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Niue, Timor-Leste, Antigua and Barbuda, Palau, Colombia, Samoa, and Nauru. They have been supported by the World Health Organization, the European Parliament and thousands...
The Free Fares Campaign has a petition here: https://transport4all.org.nz/petition In summary, it reads: We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the new coalition government’s approach to transport, which fails to recognise the crucial contribution trains, buses, ferries, walking and cycling make to maintaining and improving the efficiency, value and speed...
Sea Cleaners and Manukau Harbour Forum chair Jon Turner recently spent a morning in a hovercraft ferrying up and down the mudflats to remove tyres that had been used in old seawalls. They collected about 250 but there are thousands of them. Sea Cleaners report the volume of rubbish removed...