Touch rugby a great outlet for medical student
Source: University of Otago
Otago medical student Mariana Winiana in action on the field. Photo credit: Huhu Images.Sport has always been a big part of...
Northland News – Council seeks urgent Ministerial meeting over seaweed threat
Source: Northland Regional Council
A ‘manifestly insufficient’ response by Biosecurity New Zealand to the threat posed to Taitokerau by invasive Caulerpa seaweed has prompted the Northland...
Save the Children – Food aid suspension due to Gaza escalation of violence could...
Source: Save the Children
Four days into the escalation of violence in Gaza that spilled into southern Israel, Save the Children says it is unable to...
Food aid suspension due to Gaza escalation of violence could leave thousands of Palestinians...
Source: Save The Children
GAZA, 12 May 2023 – Four days into the escalation of violence in Gaza that spilled into southern Israel, Save the Children...
Stormy weather leads to mass tītī stranding
Source: Department of Conservation
Date: 12 May 2023
DOC has responded to calls to collect up to 150 tītī stranded inland in different parts of northern Southland.
DOC...
Africa Energy News – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Albertine Graben Oil...
:start SOURCE: African Energy Chamber
The respective Ministries of Uganda and the DRC have taken steps towards an agreement whereby oil produced at the DRC’s...
Annual food prices increase 12.5 percent – Stats NZ media and information release: Food...
Annual food prices increase 12.5 percent – Media release
11 May 2023
Food prices were 12.5 percent higher in April 2023 than they were in April 2022,...
Greenpeace – Ocean groups slam fishing Industry Transformation Plan as ‘status quo plus subsidies’
Source: Greenpeace
Environmental and recreational fishing groups have slammed the government’s draft Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan at a public meeting today, saying the plan does nothing...
Mining News – Government’s “deliberate misinterpretation” of seabed mining bill frustrating – Kiwis Against...
Source: Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
The government has today deliberately misinterpreted a draft bill aimed at banning seabed mining for minerals, failing the tens of...
Labour left floundering on seabed health
Source: Green Party
Labour has once again avoided taking decisions to protect ocean health and shown exactly why we need more Green MPs.
Debbie Ngarewa Packer’s...
Sport News – Women in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA) announces plans to accelerate gender equity...
Source: Women in Sport Aotearoa
Women in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA) announces plans to accelerate gender equity within Aotearoa New Zealand’s sport and active recreation sector.
WISPA aims...
Help us protect the Avon River/Ōtākaro
Source: Environment Canterbury Regional Council
Date: 10 May 2023
Since then, we have installed booms in the drain and are pumping out any oil that the...