Waikato helper numbers growing
The number of people being deployed to Christchurch through the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is growing.
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The number of people being deployed to Christchurch through the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is growing.
Any Christchurch people who have self-evacuated to the Waikato after the earthquake are being advised to contact Work and Income for a welfare needs assessment.
A comprehensive land and water strategy for sustainable agriculture will be a major area of work for Environment Waikato in the next financial year, and will need to take into account a wide range of economic and environmental issues.
Farmers in Tairua, Whangamata and Whitianga are being invited to attend an Environment Waikato ‘Farming for our future’ field day covering economic and environmental sustainability.
New centralised national arrangements have been announced for people wanting to make offers of free accommodation for those needing to leave Christchurch following the earthquake.
Waikato people are responding generously with offers of free accommodation for people needing to leave Christchurch following the earthquake.
The Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group has established a Christchurch Earthquake Fund to receive donations in the Waikato.
The Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group has established a Christchurch Earthquake Fund to receive donations in the Waikato.
The Waikato response to the Canterbury earthquake is continuing this morning with the finalising of details of a collective mayoral relief fund and the assistance the region can offer Christchurch.
Waikato councils are being asked to establish a collective mayoral relief fund to help Christchurch in the wake of the latest devastating earthquake.
Environment Waikato is urging residents to get fired up for winter and buy or collect firewood now, so it’s nice and dry by the time it’s needed.
Environment Waikato is urging residents to get fired up for winter and buy or collect firewood now, so it’s nice and dry by the time it’s needed.
A long-term trial of three ‘bat boxes’ in Hamilton’s Hammond Park could provide the safe havens needed by the area’s threatened native long-tailed bats, says Environment Waikato.
Every minute an eight metre pole is being driven into the banks of the Piako River at Ngatea in the first stage of a multi-million dollar project for the area.
A tide gauge is expected to be installed in Raglan’s Manu Bay this weekend and will provide data valuable to scientists, as well as local boaties and surfers.
People and organisations have just over a week to have their say on the proposed Waikato Regional Policy Statement (RPS) before it is finalised.
The pest plant tutsan has become a major problem around Taumarunui and Ruapehu near the regional border and is starting to move aggressively into neighbouring Waikato areas, says Environment Waikato’s biosecurity team.
Environment Waikato’s policy and strategy committee has formally supported the idea of fish farming in the Firth of Thames but has made suggestions about how it is introduced.
With river and catchment management being a key role in the Waikato, the regional council is strongly encouraging people to put their names forward to be their community’s representatives on Environment Waikato’s catchment liaison sub-committees.
An Environment Waikato pest management programme at Onemana, north of Whangamata, is reviving the area’s pohutakawa trees.
