Coromandel Watchdog has a petition which asks the government to place an immediate moratorium on accepting any applications for and any further processing or granting of any prospecting, exploration or mining permits on, in or under public conservation land in Aotearoa New Zealand, including stewardship land, administered by the Department...
The government will scrap the Resource Management Act and replace it with three news pieces of legislation. The three new Acts will be: Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA) to provide for land use and environmental regulation, Strategic Planning Act (SPA) to integrate with other legislation relevant to development, and...
The government is to introduce a range of measures to reduce the carbon footprint of the vehicle fleet. It intends to introduce legislation to establish a Clean Car Import Standard. The standard is proposed to begin in 2022, with a target in 2025 of 105 grams of CO2/km being...
What’s good in the draft climate plan: It’s great that the Commission has acknowledged that we need permanent native forests to draw in and lock away carbon. It’s also great they’ve acknowledged that we can’t plant our way out of climate catastrophe. Trees have a role to play, but they’re...
2021 is the 50th anniversary of World Wetlands Day which is held annually on 2 February. The theme this year is Wetlands and Water. Wetlands include freshwater swamps, bogs, gumlands, pākihi, fens, marshes and seepages. They are a threatened habitat in New Zealand. We have lost over 90% of our...
The Climate Change Commission has published their first draft advice on what Aotearoa New Zealand needs to do to meet the scale of the climate crisis, and meet our obligations as a signatory of the Paris Climate Agreement. Public consultation on the draft advice runs from February 1 until March...
The doors to staffed Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga properties around the country will again be open, free of charge, to the public this Waitangi Day. The objective of the 6 February open day is to promote the significance of these places that contribute to the story of early Māori...
Auckland Council has made public its summary of suggestions from feedback on the Regional Parks Management Plan Review given by the pubic last September/October. CTA’s feedback on the plan review can be seen here. Image: Auckland Council
A 10% discount on public transport fares in Auckland will become permanent from 7 February. This will mean cheaper fares for everyone using AT HOP cards travelling between 9am and 3pm and at night weekdays and all weekend. Also from that date, a daily cap will be introduced so that...
The Auckland War Memorial Museum recently opened the new South Atrium entrance after being closed for about 18 months. “The changes to the South Atrium, which has been designed to be more open and assertively Māori and Pacific in character, make a wonderful foil to the original classical style atrium...