Christchurch — The Papanui Innes Community Board today hosted community groups and local school students for the first stage of an historic replanting in Papanui.
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Ali Jones PR and Communications
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Tawa — Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves, responsible for preserving, maintaining and enhancing Tawa's native bush, joined EcoGecko Consultants and St Francis Xavier school students, to set up lizard surveying equipment early last month.
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Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves
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Bay of Plenty — Pitching tents and exploring just over the fence are the key themes for this years’ Conservation Week from November 1-9.
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Steve Brightwell
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NEW ZEALAND CHILDREN IMAGINE A FUTURE WITHOUT KIWI To launch its annual campaign Save Kiwi Month 2014, Kiwis for kiwi asked New Zealand children what a future without kiwi would feel like.
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Hustle & Bustle
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Rare blue whales have been spotted by NIWA scientists on a research expedition in the South Taranaki Bight.
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NIWA
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Nelson — Construction of a $4.7 million pest-proof fence around the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary could begin as early as May this year.
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Ecofind NZ
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An endangered native bird, the möhua, has been given a new safe home on a Marlborough Sounds island thanks to a South Island company playing a key role in the Christchurch rebuild.
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Ali Jones PR and Communications
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A major Milford Sound conservation project spearheaded by leading South Island tourism company Southern Discoveries is proving an outstanding success in restoring a natural haven to its former glory.
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Southern Public Relations
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Futurerivers
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New Zealand dolphins, also known as Hector's dolphins, are fascinating and beautiful animals.
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University of Otago
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Now that autumn's arrived butterfly lovers around New Zealand are tagging Monarch butterflies.
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Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust
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Auckland City — Researchers are elated to find the sparrow-sized New Zealand storm petrel, thought extinct until 2003, is breeding on Little Barrier Island Hauturu in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
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Auckland Council
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Chicks that stock up on their five-a-day outshine their love rivals in later life, a new study shows.
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Zoological Society of London
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Hamilton — The birth of not one, not two but three rare Nepalese pandas has thrilled keepers at Hamilton Zoo.
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Hamilton City Council
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Bay of Plenty — Two aquatic weeds, hornwort and egeria densa, have been found for the first time in Rotorua's Lake Rotomā - inside Bay of Plenty Regional Council's weed cordon.
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Bay of Plenty Regional Council
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Canterbury — Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says the Government has accepted Environment Canterbury’s recommendation to change the water conservation order that covers the Rakaia River.
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Gerry Brownlee
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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today opened a 26 kilometre section of the Old Ghost Road cycle trail in Buller.
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Nick Smith
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Sir David Attenborough LIFE series recently on TVNZ can no doubt be blamed for the resurgence of interest in invertebrate fauna – but whatever the reason, people are talking excitedly about the Butterflies Conference to be held at Auckland’s Unitec on 16 and 17 March.
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Jacqui Knight
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Taranaki — An example of the importance of wetlands and the challenges involved in their restoration and enhancement will be on public show to mark World Wetlands Day on Sunday (3 February).
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Taranaki Regional Council
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Claims that most species will go extinct before they can be discovered have been debunked in the latest issue of Science, by researchers from The University of Auckland, Griffith University, and the University of Oxford.
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University of Auckland
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Marlborough — Over the last 10 years nearly 300 Marlborough landowners have received reports from the Council that identify and describe the significant natural areas (SNAs) on their properties.
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Marlborough District Council
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