Wilding pines infesting an area near Mt Cook Road, near Twizel.
New Zealand’s economy could take a multi-billion dollar hit if the spread of wilding pines and conifers is not addressed, a new report warns.
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RNZ Navy chopper joins wilding pines fight in South Canterbury high country – Mathew Littlewood, Timaru Herald
A moderate to dense infestation of wilding pines at Tekapo East in the Mackenzie Basin. The Royal New Zealand Navy Seasprite helicopter has surveyed about 400,000 hectares of tussock land in the Mackenzie Basin, Albury Range and the upper Waitaki River catchment as part of a combined project that aims to combat the spread of the invasive plant pest.
A million species are threatened with extinction, and the risks are accelerating – Amber-Leigh Woolf, The Press
Maui’s Dolphins are native in New Zealand, yet there are only 55 left. “The biological diversity of this planet has been really hammered, and this is really our last chance to address all of that,” ……
Why ecologists think Govt’s high country plan will fail – David Williams, Newsroom
Three top ecologists with decades of experience in the South Island’s high country say the Government’s proposed improvements to Crown high country management won’t work.
Trout Anglers Advocacy Opposes Mackenzie Basin Dairying – Media Release, NZFFA
A nation-wide trout and rivers advocacy organisation has backed the Environmental Defence Society in its fight to save the Mackenzie Basin’s ecological values from the threat of wholesale irrigation and large scale dairy conversions. The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers’ president Graham Carter said the underlying principle was about the short-sightedness and folly of allowing dairying expansion in low rainfall areas such as the Mackenzie Basin.
EDS joins High Court appeal on Simons Pass Station dairy conversion – EDS media release
The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) is applying to the High Court to join an appeal brought by Simons Pass Station Ltd against Mackenzie District Council. The appeal seeks to overturn Environment Court declarations that mean discretionary land use consents will be required before dairy expansion can occur on the property.
Uncertainty swirls over Mackenzie dairy plan – David Williams, Newsroom
The legal battle over a large dairy farm planned for the Mackenzie Basin is heading to the High Court. The future of the Mackenzie Basin’s Simons Pass Station – a lightning rod for national environmental opposition – remains as unclear as a swirling effluent pond.
Call for Environment Canterbury to be in vanguard of global change – Paul Gorman, The Press
The region’s freshwater, air quality and biodiversity problems were a microcosm of the global situation.
I worked on David Attenborough’s documentary – Liv Grant, The Guardian
We live in a time of loss. Wild places dwindle, the animals and plants that live in them disappear. Climate change is now a certainty, and it will without a doubt lead to the loss of land, species, and ways of life. In the abstract this is disconcerting. Up close it is devastating. I worked on the BBC’s Climate Change: The Facts, presented by David Attenborough, and have felt this pain first-hand.
`Outrage is justified`: David Attenborough – The Guardian
“[Young people] understand the simple discoveries of science about our dependence upon the natural world,” he said. “My generation is no great example for understanding – we have done terrible things.”