Environment Canterbury has welcomed the announcement that a waterway in the Hurunui-Waiau zone has won the 2017 Cawthron Foundation supreme award for the most improved river in New Zealand.
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South Canterbury farm business people produce food that is consumed across the world and none of this would be possible without water from the Opihi River.
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Some of the world’s rarest birds, like the wrybill, live and breed along the Ashley-Rakahuri River.
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The Wallaby geomap is live! This handy tool enables members of the public to report sightings of wallabies (dead or alive) while out in the bush.
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Environment Canterbury reminds recreational river users to be vigilant while they are out enjoying the rivers over the spring and summer months.
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Access to a recreation area along the Opihi River, near Waipopo, is open again after the completion of Environment Canterbury river erosion control works.
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Diamond Harbour ferry passengers will continue to be able to jump straight on to a bus after arriving in Lyttelton.
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Karl Russell has gathered food from the Opihi River for as long as he remembers and he knows the importance of protecting our rivers for future generations.
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A cultural land management advisor has been appointed to help farmers near Te Waihora understand and comply with new rules designed to protect mahinga kai.
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Long before the Waimakariri River became a source of food for Māori, a water supply for farmers and a recreational hotspot for the half-million people living on its borders, it was quite literally a world…
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Access to a popular recreation area along the Opihi River has been closed to allow urgent river works to be undertaken safely.
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It’s wet and cold and takes 20 minutes of careful hand-held monitoring each time but measuring water flow in and around the Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon helps us understand its natural…