News & events

Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018

Kaikōura farmers are being supported to help understand and implement mahinga kai values.

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018

Protection of an endangered grasshopper in the MacKenzie Basin has been given a boost with the transfer of a key habitat into conservation land.

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018

Work to close the two remaining gaps in the secondary stopbanks system for the Ashley River/Rakahuri starts this month.

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Two companies have been fined a total of $41,000 for causing sediment contamination of a Christchurch stream.

Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018

Twenty-five new bat roost boxes have now been put up in trees near Te Ngāwai River by Orari Temuka Opihi Pareora water zone committee members and their farm.

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018

On 28 March 2018 charges were withdrawn in the Christchurch District Court against Solvent Rescue Limited as both Environment Canterbury and the company agreed to alternative outcomes which benefited the…

Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018

The new Canterbury Regional Pest Management Plan commenced on 1 July 2018.

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Could aluminium bands wrapped around old trees be one way of preventing one of NZ’s native bat species from extinction?

A new predator-proofing trial in South Canterbury seeks to find out.…

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018

An air quality monitoring programme in Yaldhurst shows no serious public health risk to residents from airborne dust.

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018

Today the Environment Canterbury Council adopted the Long-Term Plan 2018-28, confirming the activity and budget for the coming years.

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018

Improved air quality could keep vulnerable Cantabrians out of the hospital this winter. Dr.

Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018

The regional council sector voiced its endorsement of the Good Farming Practice Action Plan for Water Quality, launched in Hamilton.