Conservation / October 2024
November 2024 | September 2024-
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Dialectical dilemmas
- Zealandia
- Have you noticed that when you travel outside of Wellington, birds that you are familiar with here can sound slightly or even substantially different? This is because, like people, birds have ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Show me the green
- Zealandia
- Over the next few weeks, if you happen to wander by a māpou/red matipo tree you might hear a soft pitter-patter of dropping fruit or perhaps the occasional quiet chatter. Pause for a moment, peer ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Noticing nature
- Zealandia
- “It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.” Robin Wall Kimmerer. We are now well into spring, with signs of it all around us. The puawānanga/clematis is sitting proudly on ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Reducing and recycling the Civic Administration Building
- Wellington City Council
- Nearly 80 percent (by weight) of the waste being created through the demolition of Wellington City Council’s Civic Administration Building (CAB) is being recycled instead of being sent to landfill.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tips for recycling in Wellington
- Wellington City Council
- While recycling may initially seem daunting, when we get it right it’s an easy way to reduce our waste and negative environmental impact. Our Waste Minimisation Team have shared some things you may not know about recycling in Wellington.
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Porirua Citizens in Science!
- Mountains to Sea Wellington
- On Wednesday, September 25th, Porirua City Council (PCC) and Mountains to Sea Wellington (MTSW) hosted a morning session to showcase and celebrate the amazing community groups that have contributed a year's worth of monitoring for the Citizen Science Program in Porirua.
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Farewell to Orbell
- Zealandia
- Sadly, earlier this month the beloved takahē Orbell died at age of 23. Orbell was due to be taken for further health checks after our team noted his health had deteriorated. He was unusually ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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From the Archives: Inspector of Nuisances
- Wellington City Council
- Before we had street cleaning teams, sewerage systems, waste and recycling services, and a Public Health team, Wellington relied on one person to monitor the sanitation for the whole city – the Inspector of Nuisances. Read on to learn more about this interesting role from back in the day!
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Ake ake ake – A forever language
- Zealandia
- We just celebrated Te Wiki te Reo Māori, an annual celebration for all New Zealanders to show their support for the Māori language, an official language of this country. Want to know what te reo ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sustainability at Rātā Café
- Zealandia
- Rātā Café has made a few changes recently to help make the café more sustainable and make it easier for our visitors to make sustainable choices. Customers with different dietary requirements ...
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Look out for our Lookouts!
- Manawa Karioi Ecological Restoration Project
- We put effort into improving our lookout points.
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Te Ahi Ka - Loop Track, Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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E-Waste Recycling Drop Off Day 12 October
- Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
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Sacred Heart Cathedral, Guildford Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Weekly E-news for 27 September 2024
- St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
- E NEWS 27TH SEPTEMBER 2024 Last Sunday Conrad Lendrum who is the Manager Waste Infrastructure at the Ministry for the Environment led a workshop on recycling and it was a very […]
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St Andrew's on the Terrace, 30, The Terrace, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Speedy kiwi races Mākara Peak Mountain biker
- Wellington City Council
- Earlier this month a Mākara Peak Mountain biker got to meet a new type of trail runner – a large female kiwi!
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Makara Peak Information Centre, Koru, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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International acclaim for Ōtari orchid scientists
- Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush Trust
- Stories of native orchid conservation research at Ōtari impressed an international audience of orchid specialists, in Perth in September. Scientists from the Lions Ōtari Plant Conservation Laboratory madeJennifer Alderton-Moss and her winning poster Jennifer Alderton-Moss and her winning poster presentations to the 8th International Orchid Conservation Congress on their groundbreaking research undertaken around the germination of rare native orchids.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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