Educating children on the importance of trapping predators was the goal of a competition organised by Wainui School.
Forty-nine predators were caught over a fi...
THE proprietors of Mangaone Station at Whangara and students from Wainui Beach School have combined their efforts to create the Mangaone Wainui Wetland alongsid...
A 1958 article in the New Zealand Gardener magazine tells about the rise of a half acre plot in the Botanical Gardens from an “unsightly swamp” to the reserve o...
GISBORNE Girls’ High School students are making a hands-on contribution to a three-year national litter data project and Kaiti Beach will be getting a regular s...
Every month, the Women’s Native Tree Project Trust (WNTPT) holds a workshop at its nursery at the EIT Rural Studies unit at 320 Stout Street, Riverdale.
WNTPT n...
?A visit to see the conversion back to native of the Maungataniwha Pine Forest was a highlight of the East Coast Hawke’s Bay Te Tairawhiti ki Te Matau-a-Maui Co...
Wednesday, November 14Waihirere Domain trapping project from 10am to midday at the Waihirere Domain carpark. Join the community effort to protect native flora a...
BEACH-GOERS, especially quad bike riders and dog walkers, are being asked to stay clear of areas where there are endangered New Zealand and Banded dotterels, no...
Wednesday, May 2Growing Native Trees, 10am-midday. EIT Rural Studies, 320 Stout Street, Riverdale, Gisborne. Learn how to grow our wonderful native trees from s...
A $1.5 million Government grant has kick-started a four-year project that will accelerate existing efforts to improve the mauri of Lake Tutira.
Project Te Waiu ...
by Jonathan Rush
THE introduction of fan palms to the region has created significant challenges for our unique indigenous ecosystems according to Grant Vincent ...
A MEETING of the East Coast Hawke’s Bay Te Tairawhiti ki Te Matau-a-Maui Conservation Board (ECHBCB) earlier in March included a visit to the Cooks Cove Walkway...
ROUGH seas and overcast skies did not deter about 70 people who attended the family adventure day at Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine Reserve on Saturday.
The day,...
THE restoration of wetlands at Heath Johnston Park to clean up the degraded Wainui Stream have been scheduled for the New Year, with earthworks planned for Febr...
THIRTY volunteers spent two hours collecting litter, weeding, planting and spreading mulch at Waikanae Stream on Sunday afternoon.
The results were a collection...
If it really is as good as they say, then an informed public would want it anyway, says environmental lawyer Sue Grey.
Ms Grey is talking about 5G — the new net...
When English pop singer Cliff Richard’s band rehearsed in a London cafe across the road from the cafe bass player Brendon Gill’s band rehearsed in during the 19...
THE East Coast Hawke’s Bay Te Tairawhiti ki Te Matau-a-Maui Conservation Board recently held its quarterly meeting at Ruatoria with an education-focused agenda....
THE pollution of our planet really hit home for Darnelle Timbs about seven years ago during a trip to France.
She was swimming in the sea and realised she was s...
GISBORNE’S Hexton Bee Company were a hit at the 2018 Spring Gift Fair in Auckland, taking out the 2018 People’s Choice Awards Winner for best small stand.
The c...
A YOUNG GIRL wants people to stop living on this planet as if there is another one waiting for them.
Campion College Year 7 student Lauren Chambers’ school impa...
by Luisa Knight
THE FARMYARD for Early Learners has introduced a new outdoor learning programme called Te Whenua Ukaipo.
Their aim is to create an extended and...
Gisborne district councillors have been urged to endorse and commit to the Zero Carbon Act, a blueprint developed by the national, youth-led organisation Genera...
A JOINT project between Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) and NIWA with Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) co-funding mapped a part of the seabed known as t...
Disturbing reports of dead little blue penguins washing up on beaches have prompted multiple inquiries from Gisborne residents to the Department of Conservation...
TEARS and celebration surrounded the re-release of ‘Quirky’ the kiwi back into the Whinray Scenic Reserve.
Department of Conservation (DoC) ranger Jamie Quirk, ...
A WAINUI community group is leading the way for Gisborne as it plans to rid its neighbourhood of pest predators.
Launched earlier this month, Nga Manu Waiata (T...
A WASTING disease is killing starfish around the world and as sea temperatures change, there is concern New Zealand starfish species might be affected.
Professo...
KAITIHill/Titirangi is once again glowing pink with the spring flowers of the invasive weed holly-leaved senecio, and Gisborne District Council is again defendi...
AN ENVIRONMENTAL non-governmental organisation is on the look out for “game-changing” projects for one of three awards with $25,000 in funding.
World Wildlife F...