News & events

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017

Environment Canterbury today reported good progress on collaborative efforts to protect Canterbury’s iconic braided rivers.

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017

A new comprehensive air monitoring programme is being set up in Yaldhurst amid concerns about the health effects of the dust coming from quarries.

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017

Collaborative effort together with significant rule changes signal good news for Canterbury’s iconic braided rivers, Environment Canterbury said today.

Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017

Environment Canterbury announced that it will be seeking permission on behalf of a co-ordinating group to release a new variant of rabbit haemorrhagic disease.

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016

Environment Canterbury announced the way new funding for wilding conifer control would be allocated and administered in the region.

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016

Environment Canterbury welcomed the announcement by the Otago Regional Council allocating $273,000 for a programme targeting reduction of Bennett's wallaby

Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016

Farmers have completed more than 2000 metres of stock proof fencing to protect biodiversity values on a mixed sheep and beef farm they own.

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016

Pest trapping, aerial weed monitoring, weta 'motels' and lizard habitats – some of the biodiversity projects students from Lincoln High School are working on.

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016

Some of the smallest residents at the Orari Gorge got a helping hand thanks to a grant from the zone committee’s Immediate Steps biodiversity fund.

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016

Barrhill farmer Malcolm Cairns says the Farm Environment Plan process provides farmers with practical tools to improve both environmental and economic outcomes.

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014

Dryland farmers’ concern is one of equity surrounding nutrient limits in the Hurunui Waiau River Regional Plan.