News & events

Date: Thu, 31 May 2018

A popular little lake in the Mackenzie Basin, Lake Poaka, is getting some help to reduce invasive trees that are clogging its shoreline and surrounding wetlands.

Date: Thu, 31 May 2018

Environment Canterbury's communications campaign to introduce the toughest rules around farming won the Marketing Communication PR award.

Date: Fri, 25 May 2018

A project which seeks to use an electric barrier to protect the nationally threatened Canterbury mudfish from predators will be the first of its kind in New Zealand.

Date: Mon, 21 May 2018

There’s a significant effort in Canterbury to manage and reduce nitrate levels in groundwater.

Date: Mon, 21 May 2018

More than 80 people took part in a ‘beautiful day’ planting native species at Te Punatarakao wetland on Saturday 19 May.

Date: Mon, 21 May 2018

Actually, tsunamis can happen in lakes too.

Date: Fri, 18 May 2018

A proposal to expand an existing quarry has been granted by an independent hearing panel.

Date: Tue, 1 May 2018

Terry Hewitt has had an amazing career but he says he now loves helping farmers comply with environmental regulations. He talked to Tony Benny.

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018

Environment Canterbury was called around 8 am Wednesday 4 April about a number of dead eels in Kaputone Creek.

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018

People don’t think too much about their brake pads until they need to stop their car but, there is more going on under the bonnet than you may think.

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018

Environment Canterbury is calling for landowners to help stop the spread of yellow bristle grass, an aggressive annual seeding plant which spreads rapidly through pasture, reducing pasture quality.

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018

The final plan, Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour, was presented to the Environment Canterbury council.