“We have started getting complaints all across Auckland recently,” said Manikantan.
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Significant number of complaints have led to the Wasp Wipeout campaign to begin in Auckland. Rangitoto Island, Motutapu Island and Motuihe Island are wasp hotspots in the Auckland region, along with the Waitākere Ranges. Wasps are invasive pests that are endangering New Zealand’s biodiversity as they compete for native bird food and attack lizards. Manikantan said that wasps also attack “chicklets because they can’t fly and have liquid on them when they are born”.
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The first Wasp Wipeout campaign in Auckland begins in Motutapu Island.
Most of the previous Italian Challenges have been of participation rather than victory.
The first win was in 1992 in San Diego, with the Paul Cayard skippered/Raoul Gardini backed Il Moro di Venezia winning the second race, by just a 3 second margin.
The Italian 12 Metre Azzurra got Italy into the Cup in 1983, winning 24 of 49 races sailed in the Challenger Selection Series laying down a marker both for Italy s participation in the America s Cup, and dragging the Italian population to emote over the America s Cup. Then, as now and always, the Italian entries have always epitomized style. Who could forget those beautiful blue 12 metre hulls? However winning is not the Italians forte, with just two wins in a Match from almost 30 years of America s Cup participation.
Anastas Arnaudov
The small group of women on SailFit s first NZ retreat got stuck into high-intensity interval training, yoga, a wellbeing workshop, watersports and sea meditation . Credit: Anastas Arnaudov
I’m a big fan of wellness retreats, but they’re not always a bundle of laughs. People tend to sign up for them because they’re stressed out, anxious, exhausted, unhappy or facing a major dilemma or crisis, so it makes sense that they’re often fairly sober affairs (in some cases literally). But if there’s one thing I learned from a new day retreat on Auckland Harbour, it’s that you should not underestimate the curative properties of a giant, inflatable slide. Particularly when it’s whizzing you off an 81-foot motor yacht into cobweb-clearing cool water off the coast of one of the Hauraki Gulf’s hidden island gems.
America s Cup 2021: Beyond the Cup tracks Team New Zealand amid top-speed rumours
24 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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Dockside chat has suggested that Emirates Team New Zealand has been hitting speeds of 57 knots so Beyond the Cup s Cheree Kinnear teams up with Whisper Technologies to try find how fast Te Rehutai is sailing. Video / NZ Herald
Dockside chat has suggested that Emirates Team New Zealand has been hitting speeds of 57 knots so Beyond the Cup s Cheree Kinnear teams up with Whisper Technologies to try find how fast Te Rehutai is sailing. Video / NZ Herald
Cheree Kinnear is a sports reporter for NZMEcheree.kinnear@nzherald.co.nz