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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Wellington — Little Blue Penguins may begin breeding in Whitireia Park thanks to some ace carpentry skills by some Aotea College students.
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Lower Hutt — A short history of Pencarrow Lighthouse is one of a handful of projects to secure backing in the latest round of funding from the council’s heritage fund.
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Wellington City — Did you know that Otari-Wilton's Bush is New Zealand's only public native botanic garden? This Saturday (15 September), to help celebrate Conservation Week, it's having an open day where you can take guided walks, hear from experts and buy native plants.
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Wellington — Honda New Zealand and the Greater Wellington Regional Council are inviting keen members of the public to roll up their sleeves for a Honda TreeFund planting day in Belmont Regional Park on Saturday 25 August.
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Wainuiomata — The Greater Wellington Regional Council returned North Island robins to the spectacular Wainuiomata Mainland Island today, for the first time since the 1890s.
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Wellington City — Eels may not be the most attractive fish in our waters but a lot of people love them.
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Wellington City — Zealandia's future has been secured with the Council's Strategy and Policy Committee unanimously voting for a new partnership model last week.
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Wellington City — Cory Meister, from Island Bay, who turns 17 this month, is very clear about what he wants to do now he has left Scots College.
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Wellington — Lower North Island regional councils and the Department of Conservation are developing an action plan to look at a more collaborative approach to the management of natural resources and hazards.
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Wellington — Dedication, passion, persistence, innovation and leadership are attributes of the nine 2011 Encore Award winners, committed to making the Wellington region a better place in which to live.
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Wellington City — Five thousand native trees and shrubs will be planted near Berhampore Golf Course on Sunday 25 September in honour of rugby legend Sir Brian Lochore.
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Wellington — Greater Wellington is getting on top of rooks in Wairarapa, but still need rural residents to be their eyes and ears to help locate the last few breeding populations.
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Wellington City — Happy Feet, the emperor penguin that’s captured the hearts of New Zealanders and others around the world, is finally homeward bound, onboard NIWA’s largest research vessel, Tangaroa.
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Karori Sanctuary — An agreement between Victoria University and ZEALANDIA: The Karori Sanctuary Experience, will foster greater research collaboration between the two organisations.
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Wellington — Unwanted botanical visitors could strangle and smother native bush areas within the region if they are not kept in check says Greater Wellington Regional Council biosecurity officer Ben Winder.
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Wellington — After a long search, the best photo of or from Kapiti Island has been found.
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Wellington City — "ZEALANDIA has become not only a world renowned conservation project, but also an award-winning visitor attraction," says ZEALANDIA Chief Executive Nancy McIntosh-Ward.
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Wellington — Among the last of 25,000 poplar and willow poles being planted for soil conservation in 2010 were driven home at Eringa in Longbush Valley east of Carterton last week (17 September).
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