The Ministry for the Environment wants to hear peoples thoughts about phasing out more single-use and hard-to-recycle plastics.
Following the plastic shopping ...
THE final stage of the Waikanae Stream clean-up was completed by a group of volunteers from Cedenco.
The group of 18 removed weeds from trees, shrubs and grasse...
A new ecological restoration kaupapa in Tairawhiti is working to enhance tangata whenua aspirations for whanau and their whenua.
Te Rea — Tairawhiti Agroecology...
A book about living with the climate crisis features a chapter from Gisborne-born climate activist Maia Ingoe.
The chapter is called “A Fight for Our Future” a...
The Department of Conservation is calling on citizen scientists to celebrate World Fish Migration Day by downloading an app and checking out a new video to help...
A small team of eleven volunteers had a productive afternoon on Sunday, spreading bark around native plants on the Grey Street Skate Park bank of Waikanae Strea...
Initially thought to be a brown grasshopper, the website inaturalist.nz helped identify this bug found in a Gisborne garden last week as a migratory locust.
An...
Freshwater anglers are eagerly anticipating the start of the new trout and salmon fishing season, which begins on October 1.
Early reports indicate there is som...
New Zealanders are getting ready to campaign and vote for their favourite native birds in the nation's most popular annual bird contest.
Forest & Bird's Bird o...
HAVE you seen the New Zealand forest ringlet butterfly?
Conservationists around the country are urging New Zealanders to report any sightings of the insect.
T...
It's time for the Great Kereru Count 2020.
Kereru Discovery is calling for all Kiwis to get out and count kereru.
Whether you love their classic white singlet...
New Zealand’s bees and beekeepers are calling on everyone to “bee a hero” this September, as the country celebrates Bee Aware Month.
Bee Aware Month is an annua...
Organic Week Aotearoa begins on September 5 and to help celebrate, Wrights Vineyard and Winery on Wharerata Road, Manutuke, plan to make a day of it.
On Saturda...
Due to the move from Covid-19 Alert Level 1 to Level 2 and 3, many events for Conservation Week have been cancelled, but the Department of Conservation has orga...
Gullies are the most significant of the sediment-producing erosion processes that have in the past and continue to contribute the largest proportion of sediment...
Those wanting to help stranded whales and dolphins have the chance to learn how to get them back out to sea this weekend when Project Jonah New Zealand comes to...
The second kiwi chick of the season was delivered to Whinray Scenic Reserve earlier this month.
The kiwi chick, who is yet to be named, is a descendent of one ...
Department of Conservation’s East Coast biodiversity ranger Jamie Quirk was awarded a Te Ra Ratonga Tumatanui Public Service Day award for his work in the regio...
The discovery of new wild specimens of the rare ngutukaka/kakabeak has sparked new hope for the species.
Ngutukaka, with bright red flowers reminiscent of the b...
The Whinray Eco Charitable Trust (WECT) at Motu is having a community planting day within the new tuatara predator-proof enclosure on Sunday, November 1.
WECT h...
NZ Landcare Trust’s new Tairawhiti/East Coast catchments co-ordinator Sam Gibson has hit the ground running and is already knees deep in catchment work around t...
Myrtle rust has arrived in Gisborne City, with the recent discovery of the disease on ramarama hedges at two properties in Kaiti.
“The trees are not smothered ...
The start of the 2020/2021 kiwi nesting season has been good for one of the most prolific kiwi conservation initiatives in the country.
The Forest Lifeforce Re...
A combined effort by Ngati Oneone and Eastland Port is under way to restore the Kopuawhakapata stream.
Last Friday a group of eager workers planted 937 native ...
New Zealand's proposed contribution to reduce atmospheric carbon, and help mitigate climate change, is to plant large numbers of monoculture trees, although pla...
Aiming to investigate the values and relations between Gisborne residents and the Waimata River and how those relations shape perceptions of restoration is the ...
GISBORNE’S emissions profile from Statistics New Zealand shows the region’s total emissions from households and industry are going down.
The data shows that Gis...
As one of the participating Enviroschools, Te Karaka Area School visited the Tairawhiti Environment Centre (TEC) to learn about minimising waste through a serie...
Tairawhiti Environment Centre are hosting a composting workshop, where anyone can come and learn the basics of composting.
It is an hour long workshop on Sunda...
Instead of “plogging”, where you pick up litter while jogging, what about “wogging” where you pull weeds out of the ground while jogging.
Ecoworks environmental...