Hope for weed free road verges
The Waikato’s road verges are starting to become more weed free as Transit and district councils make progress on a cleanup.
The Waikato’s road verges are starting to become more weed free as Transit and district councils make progress on a cleanup.
Environment Waikato is hoping the public can help track down the cause of a diesel spill into a stormwater culvert in Pukete some time today.
Environment Waikato has earned itself a B grade for its efforts to look after the environment in international terms, according to an international environmental law expert.
Landowners in the Pirongia to Honikiwi area are joining a Community Possum Control Scheme to continue the war on possums.
Support for the use of 1080 poison to control possums in the Waikato has risen significantly in the last two years, a research survey has found.
Environment Waikato’s Clean Streams Project is building momentum and more than 330 km of stream fencing has been completed around the Region – but that is only half the target.
Low impact urban design working with nature to minimise and avoid environmental damage would make for more satisfied communities, an urban design expert told Environment Waikato yesterday.
New Zealand had more to lose than other countries from a bio-terrorist attack National Assistant Director General of Biosecurity Dr Barry O’Neil said this week.
A cunning trap that will catch “smart pests” for years without needing any attention could add another tool to the biosecurity toolbox.
A cunning trap that will catch “smart pests” for years without needing any attention could add another tool to the biosecurity toolbox.
Environment Waikato is campaigning to warn Waikato people about the serious threat to the Region from alligator weed, a rapidly spreading aquatic and pasture pest.
New Zealand is on track to be free of bovine Tb by 2013, this week’s Environment Waikato Biosecurity Committee meeting heard.
About 164 tonnes of unwanted agrichemicals are still left in the Waikato Region, about half of them dangerous persistent organic pollutants.
The sand used for renourishment of Buffalo Beach used to be on the beach itself - thousands of years ago.
Planting began last week on a major environmental restoration project at Mataora Bay, south of Whiritoa.
Environment Waikato and DoC are asking people to keep an eye out for some brightly coloured birds on the loose in the Taupo area.
More Waikato schools have been invited to join the Enviroschools Programme which integrates environmental education into school life.
A Morrinsville chicken farm has been granted resource consents to expand the operation to house up to 41,700 birds during peak conditions.