Call to join Show Your Heart flotilla to ban bottom trawling
Waihekeans are being called to join a protest demanding a ban on bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park on 11 April.
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Dolphin encounter a highlight in Jono’s 1350km swim to end bottom trawling
As last weekend waned, ultramarathon swimmer and ocean advocate Jono Ridler amped up his message to decision makers in Wellington to end bottom trawling.
With...
Rocky Bay house destroyed by fire as neighbours fight off burning embers
A Rocky Bay home burned down on Saturday, as a thick plume of black smoke rose above the street and embers rained down on...
Pressure at the pump fuels call to make public transport free on Waiheke
Nearly a month into the US and Israeli war on Iran, there’s still no end in sight as the disruptions in international oil production...
Council considers request to make temporary aggregate work site permanent
A Downers works depot opposite the Waiheke Community Resource Recovery Park on Ostend Road, has been operating on ‘temporary industrial activity’ consents for seven...
Island’s oldest banded dotterel dies at 25
Waiheke’s oldest banded bird, a dotterel named Gook, has died at the grand old age of 25.
“It’s the end of an era, really,” says...
Group still in bureaucratic limbo after critical support ended
After seven months of stalemate, waiting for a bureaucratic knot to be untied for the restoration of a critical support service, the families of...
All Kiwi kids deserve a future filled with hope
Waiheke resident Liz Greive, founder of Share My Super, writes in the wake of last week’s Stats New Zealand child poverty data that shows...
