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. Staff from...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-news/orari-temuka-opihi-pareroa/slippery-slope-for-bat-predatorsThe Local Government Commission has upheld the Canterbury Regional Council’s (Environment Canterbury’s) decision to largely retain its current representation arrangement. This will apply to the local...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/community-representation-remains-largely-unchangedFire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ), ChemWaste, Te Whatu Ora and Environment Canterbury responded swiftly to multiple chemical spills at an industrial site in Woolston, Christchurch on Wednesday 9
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2022/collaborative-response-to-contain-chemical-spillsThe decision on the hearing of CRC142845 and CRC142846 has now been released. Commissioner D Chrystal has granted consent to use land for mineral extraction activities and the deposition of clean fill...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/do-it-online/resource-consents/notifications-and-submissions/notified-decisions/2014/christchurch-ready-mixThe invasive, freshwater algae didymo, has been found recently in the popular tourist spot Te Tautea o Hinekakai/Devils Punchbowl Creek in Arthur’s Pass. Didymo can form massive blooms on the bottom...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2025/didymo-found-near-arthurs-passThe Opihi River Regional Plan (PDF File, 5.23MB) aimed to promote sustainable and integrated management of the natural and physical resources of the Opihi River and its tributaries as well
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/your-region/plans-strategies-and-bylaws/opihi-river-regional-planEnvironment Canterbury is pleased with a High Court decision (PDF file 1.33 MB) that it correctly applied the law and did not exceed its jurisdiction in approving consents to take water used for water...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2020/council-pleased-with-certainty-on-water-bottling-from-high-court-decisionSmoky air, itchy eyes and smelly washing – these are things to consider before lighting up that rubbish or garden waste and becoming the neighbourhood nuisance. Last year more than 850 smoke-related...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2022/gotta-light-heres-how-to-do-it-rightAn independent report into Environment Canterbury’s 2017 greenhouse gas emissions has shown the tangible ways in which the organisation has reduced its level of emissions, as well as highlighting...
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/2019/positive-emissions-report-sets-tone-for-behaviour-changeUpdate 3 November 2021 A feedlot near Ashburton has featured in the media recently. Our role is to monitor environmental compliance and check the operation is complying
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