But she said submissions to Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) short and long term plans for more funding or district plan changes to protect their homes have fallen on “deaf ears”, so she has taken the next step. Robinson’s Resource Management Act lawyer has penned a letter of legal opinion to ECan, requesting it takes urgent steps to protect the dolphins or face further legal action.
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There are an estimated 15,000 Hector s dolphins left nationwide. The letter stated that under the New Zealand coastal policy statement, ECan has a legal obligation to “protect indigenous biological diversity in the coastal environment”.
Monday, 19 April 2021, 12:44 pm | Waimakariri Council The Waimakariri Water Zone Committee is supporting biodiversity funding of $50,000
for 150 hectares of remnant beech forest, wetlands and manuka scrub on Mount Lawry
Station. Waimakariri District Council, Environment Canterbury and the QEII Trust . More
Saturday, 9 October 2010, 4:39 pm | Waimakariri Council
The progress result for the Waimakariri District Council elections held on Saturday
9th October is as follows. More
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 2:01 pm | Waimakariri Council
Earthquake-affected households in the Waimakariri district are being offered rates
relief by the local Council, in recognition that some homes are uninhabitable, others
are not receiving sewer services and businesses are in trouble. More
ACE secretary Phil Saxby said the group is calling for a Government-backed hui on climate change to take place by 2022. “The current representative system of government handles a lot of issues very well, but climate change is one of those issues beyond them. “Some problems are so big, democratic governments struggle to make the tough and unpopular decisions. “There can be this built-in resistance to change. We hesitate, we discuss, we form committees. But we don’t take action when it’s needed.”
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Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw on what the Government will do about the Climate Change Commission s draft plan for slashing New Zealand s emissions.
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The islanders carefully protect their environment, so when, in early 2020, they realised they were under attack, they wanted to fight back. The invader was the German wasp, a pernicious pest that is unfortunately well set-upon mainland New Zealand, after arriving (somewhat ironically) around the time of World War II. German wasps eat huge numbers of native insects, and also eat the food that other native species need. Left unchallenged, the wasps could take over and destroy the fragile balance of the Chatham Islands ecosystem. And this is what worried Monique and others. In the time of Covid, the Chathams was playing by the rules: the entire population went into lockdown, like the rest of New Zealand, even though there was no sign of the virus there. Their key industries of fishing and crayfishing were keeping going – just – saved by the lifeline of having Air Chathams, their homegrown aviation company, still flying product back to the mainland.