Manager appointed to Project Parore restoring Katikati catchments
3 Mar, 2021 06:23 PM
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Andrew Butler is Project Parore s new programme manager.
Bay of Plenty Times
By: Elaine Fisher
Clean fresh water flowing into the northern Tauranga harbour from streams teeming with healthy aquatic life thanks to the restoration efforts of local landowners and residents, is the vision for newly appointed Project Parore programme manager Andrew Butler. We are already well on the way to achieving that goal. Many farmers and growers are doing amazing work to protect and enhance streams. I m looking forward to expanding our scope to get even more landowners on board, says Butler, who is Project Parore s first paid employee.
Nothing after the ICU other than death : Behind the lines of Britain s Covid War
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By: Alan Cowell
The government has laid out plans for gradual reopening. But in cramped intensive care wards, teeming with patients and doctors near despair, the battle is unrelenting. The numbers may be trending downward, but the battle is no less intense. In the land of Winston Churchill, it is likened sometimes to war, the Covid war.
In the latest phase of Britain s splintered campaign against the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week laid out a long glide path for England s gradual reopening from lockdown, from March to June.
South Island campgrounds busy over the holidays
6 Jan, 2021 01:06 AM
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Campgrounds across the South Island have been busy over the holidays. Photo / Getty Images
Digital producer, Christchurch, NZ Heralddevon.bolger@nzme.co.nz
Campgrounds in the South Island have been teeming with visitors over the holiday period despite having no international tourists.
Operations manager of Tahuna Beach Kiwi Holiday Park & Motel in Nelson, Peter Fraser said their numbers this year are about identical to what they had pre-Covid. We have been pretty busy. People are staying in larger numbers which is fantastic. There are lots of families around.