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News: tagged with "environment"

• Community blessing for new urban forest

  Posted: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, environment, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th October 2017 An urban forest in Woolston that will be enjoyed by generations to come is ready for its first visitors

• Council takes steps to protect sacred reserve

  Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: consultation, environment, environmental health, community engagement, submission
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 11th October 2017 Public feedback is wanted on a draft management plan for Takapūneke Reserve - one of the most culturally significant reserves in New Zealand

• Te Waihora Living Lake Symposium about Lake Ellesmere

  Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environmental health, environment, symposium
  Registrations are now open for the sixth Te Waihora Living Lake Symposium, run by the Waihora Ellesmere Trust (WET). The theme of the upcoming symposium is "Streams of Action: Ngā  Au Tūmahi"

• Minister signs off Cranford Regeneration Plan

  Posted: Friday, August 25, 2017 in: Earthquake With tags: housing, environment, recovery, land
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 24th August 2017 A regeneration plan enabling around 370 new houses to be built near Papanui and St Albans has been approved today

• Less mowing leads to more whitebait

  Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environment, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th August 2017 A Council trial designed to protect river banks where whitebait lay their eggs is hatching positive results

• Co-Governors welcome Ahuriri Lagoon funding

  Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: water, environment, environmental health, recreation
  Environment Canterbury media release: 15th August 2017 The Co-Governors of Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere (Environment Canterbury, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Selwyn District Council and Christchurch City Council) today welcomed the Government’s announcement of fu

• Support creating a Christchurch environment centre

  Posted: Wednesday, August 02, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Community Groups, environment
  A working group​ has been established to bring back a Christchurch environment centre (the Christchurch Enviro Hub). Currently they are setting up the charitable trust and trustees amongst other things

• Look out for tree poachers in public parks

  Posted: Thursday, June 29, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: parks, environment, law
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 29th June 2017 Park users are being urged to keep an eye out for suspicious activity following the theft of several trees from Charlesworth Reserve

• Joint study into Tutaepatu lagoon water quality research

  Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, water, environmental health, environment
  University of Canterbury media release: 21st June 2017 University of Canterbury (UC) researchers are launching a joint study into the water quality and its effects on freshwater fish fauna, mahinga kai and wider ecosystems in Tūtaepatu Lagoon

• City learns from gastro outbreak in Havelock North

  Posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environment, environmental health, health, disease
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 13th June 2017 A reference group is working to make sure the mistakes that contributed to the gastro outbreak in Havelock North last year will not be repeated here

• Big Belly bins in Brighton lead to less litter

  Posted: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, waste, environmental health, sustainability
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 12th June 2017 A New Brighton trial of high-tech solar-powered rubbish bins has proved so successful it has been extended for another three months

• Study Health Sciences in Semester 2 at University of Canterbury

  Posted: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 in: Training With tags: Courses, health, education, environmental health, Training
  Did you know nearly 5,000 people in Hawkes Bay were made ill by contaminated drinking water last year? Did you know that fast fashion is bad for the environment? Studying health sciences at postgraduate level is a rewarding and enlightening way to further

• Clean slate for QEII Park

  Posted: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, land, environmental health, recreation
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th June 2017 Contractors have finished removing the last of the asbestos-contaminated material that was found during the demolition of the earthquake-damaged QEII Stadium in 2012

• Myrtle rust threat prompts call for vigilance

  Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th May 2017 Christchurch and Banks Peninsula residents are being urged to keep their eyes open for any sign of the myrtle rust plant disease recently discovered in New Zealand

• Council releases list of central city barrier sites

  Posted: Thursday, May 25, 2017 in: Earthquake With tags: recovery, built environment, rebuild
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 25th May 2017 Christchurch City Council has released a list of about 30 buildings and sites considered a barrier to the regeneration of Christchurch’s city centre

• The story on Canterbury water bottling

  Posted: Thursday, May 25, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environmental health
  Environment Canterbury media release: 24th May 2017 There has been increased interest in water bottling consents recently so we thought we’d clear up a few things

• The Good Shop is coming to Carnaby Mall

  Posted: Thursday, May 25, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: social, sustainability, environment, wellbeing, Community development
  The Good Shop is a new social enterprise bringing you locally, ethically produced and environmentally sound products that will help you save the world! The Good Shop will be located at 6 Carnaby Mall in New Brighton from Tuesday 30th May 2017

• Pest fish brought under control at Travis Wetland

  Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environmental health
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 17th May 2017 A pest fish dubbed the “possum of the waterways” has been almost eradicated from Travis Wetland. Rudd are native to Europe, Russia and central Asia, and were illegally introduced into New Zealand in 1967

• Recycling: Keep it topless clean and loose

  Posted: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: waste, management, sustainability, environment
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 2nd May 2017 When you toss your plastic bottles and containers into the recycling bin - are you unintentionally doing more harm than good? Christchurch people are great at recycling but a few common mistakes are causing

• Preliminary Convention Centre design images released

  Posted: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, rebuild, built environment
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 5th April 2017 Preliminary design images of the new Christchurch Convention Centre showing how it will enhance the heart of the city have been released by Ōtākaro Limited

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