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News: tagged with "biodiversity"

• Help us hunt down hornwort

  Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waterways, biosecurity, biodiversity, prevention
  Environment Canterbury media release: 7th May 2025 Do you have an aquarium, pond, or stream on your property? We’re currently on the lookout for the invasive aquatic plant hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) after reports of it being bought and sold online

• Right on the tail of Christchurch’s lizards

  Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, biosecurity, environment
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 25th March 2025 As the self-proclaimed ‘lizard lady’, Christchurch City Council Herpetologist Chris McClure’s job is not your average 9 to 5

• First river wetland opened in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor

  Posted: Monday, March 10, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, restoration, recovery, biodiversity
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 10th March 2025 A new habitat for native fish and birds has been created in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor (OARC), after the first OARC wetland was opened

• Tis the season to report pest plants

  Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, prevention, intervention
  Environment Canterbury media release: 26th February 2025 During the summer and early autumn, it becomes a lot easier to identify pest plants that can lay incognito for much of the year

• Protecting Waitaha Canterbury rivers from invasive weeds

  Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waterways, water quality, biodiversity, environmental health
  Environment Canterbury media release: 28th January 2025 Weed control is critical when it comes to keeping our communities safe from flood risks, and it also plays an important role in protecting biodiversity in our region’s precious land and waterways

• Working together to retain Ashley Rakahuri River Access

  Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, biodiversity, collaboration, recreation
  Waimakariri District Council media release: 23rd October 2024 4WD clubs, Police, the Department of Conservation (DOC), environmental groups, Councillors and Community Board members all came together at the Ashley Rakahuri River last week to show their com

• The roots of Christchurch

  Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: natural resources, biodiversity, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 22nd October 2024 Nestled a short 3km from Christchurch’s city centre is a haven of native flora and fauna and a significant site of heritage

• Backing the bittern: The bird on the brink

  Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: conservation, biodiversity, wildlife
  Environment Canterbury media release; 14th October 2024 The Australasian bittern/matuku-hūrepo is one of our most fascinating birds, and unfortunately one of our most endangered

• Innovative solution gives hope for migratory fish at Wairewa/Lake Forsyth

  Posted: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, waterways, funding
  Environment Canterbury media release: 8th October 2024 An innovative new concept to create a permanent outlet to the sea for migratory ika/fish at Te Roto o Wairewa/Lake Forsyth is underway after previously receiving funding towards planning and developme

• Mapping the blue-green benefits of ecosystem services in Rolleston

  Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, environment, planning, planting, wellbeing, waterways, parks, recreation
  Selwyn District Council media release: 23rd September 2024 Which parts of Rolleston have the most trees and shade? Where are the greatest numbers of bird species to be found? Who’s got the best views? And who lives closest to green spaces? Ten new maps of

• Partnership safeguards significant braided river ecosystem in the upper Waimakariri

  Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: waterways, water quality, biodiversity, restoration
  Environment Canterbury media release: 17th September 2024 Two years into the ten year Upper Waimakariri River Weed Control Strategy, promising strides are being made towards realising a weed-free braided river network with flourishing native plants and wi

• Marine pest Mediterranean fanworm found outside inner Lyttelton Harbour

  Posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, biosecurity, waterways, recreation
  Environment Canterbury media release: 4th September 2024 Boaties are being urged to check and clean their hulls to help stop the spread of the marine pest Mediterranean fanworm after it was recently detected in new sites within Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbou

• Rejuvenating the Jed for the next generation

  Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: river beds, waterways, restoration, Community, biodiversity, parks, environmental health
  Environment Canterbury media release: 27th August 2024 An environmental 'vision' for the Jed River catchment in Cheviot is taking shape, with school children playing a key role in biodiversity improvements

• First steps taken towards new Akaroa wastewater scheme

  Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, conservation, biodiversity, planting
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 21st August 2024 Land at Robinsons Bay and Hammond Point is being prepared for 50,000 native trees as part of the new Akaroa wastewater scheme

• Modelling shows pest plant habitat likely to increase

  Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Climate Change, biodiversity, land, rural, biosecurity
  Environment Canterbury media release: 13th August 2024 Pest plants such as nassella tussock could become more widespread in future years, as Canterbury becomes warmer and drier

• Web of biodiversity spun during City Nature Challenge

  Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: biodiversity, campaign
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th May 2024 Dr Frank Ashwood plunged his hands into a compost pile and scattered the decaying material onto a sheet, then waited and saw movement