Greater Wellington Regional Council / August 2020
Greater Wellington promotes Quality for Life by ensuring our environment is protected while meeting the economic, cultural and social needs of the community. Our specific responsibilities include environment management, flood protection and land management, provision of regional parks, public transport planning and funding, and metropolitan water supply.
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Titahi Bay community plant the seeds for environmental leadership
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Whānau in Titahi Bay have been planting native seedlings to enhance their local environment as a part of the Kahotea Stream Restoration Group, funded by Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Community Environment Fund.
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Prosperity for Māori a key goal of new Māori regional economic development strategy
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A regional Māori strategy designed to contribute to a more prosperous whenua, wai and whānau environment for the wider Wellington region has just been launched.
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Taita College students do the hard environmental mahi
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Earlier this week, Taita College students and Greater Wellington Regional Council staff got stuck in planting 1000 trees and shrubs at Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River in a positive effort to regenerate native bush alongside the river.
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Have you say on our regional parks
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington is urging people to join a conversation about the future of its regional parks network through getting involved in consultation on its draft Toitū Te Whenua Parks Network Plan, 2020-2030.
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Greater Wellington calls for post COVID-19 public transport protection
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- In a remit to the 2020 Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Annual General Meeting, the Greater Wellington Regional Council, acknowledges the Government’s strong support for public transport during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.
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Greater Wellington proposes operation to save old growth forests
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- An operation to save approximately 11,400 hectares of pristine old growth forest, including 3000 hectares of plantation forestry, from damage caused by predators in the Akatarawa Forest is being proposed by Greater Wellington.
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Seasonal sniffing no fun
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Hay fever season is here again, cunningly enough disguised as pollution to cause people to call Greater Wellington’s Pollution Hotline in the mistaken belief that discoloured water is pollution.
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Park events spark night ‘n’ day environmentalism
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has created a series of Dark Sky events at Wainuiomata Recreation Area to celebrate and emphasise the importance of protecting our night skies and biodiversity.
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Region gets $11m flood protection, resilience and jobs boost
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington’s flood protection and resilience is getting a vital $11m boost from the Government’s post-Covid-19 infrastructure fund, which will lead to more jobs and better protection for flood prone communities.
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