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Easy eco tips to green up your life
Make eco-friendly choices and fight climate change with these six easy tips for enjoying a more sustainable lifestyle.
Reasons to join your local community conservation group
Community conservation groups are working hard to improve our natural environment right across Tāmaki Makaurau. Check out some great reasons to connect with your local group.
Add diversity to your garden with native plants
Having backyards planted with natives across Tāmaki Makaurau is good for the movement and survival of native birds, insects and lizards and it helps mitigate the effects of flooding.
Healthier waters for Takapuna Beach
The waters along Takapuna Beach are on their way to becoming healthier thanks to the $5.44m recent relining and rehabilitation works undertaken by Watercare along the Takapuna Foreshore Beach Pipeline.
Aucklanders carbon impact 15 per cent higher than fellow New Zealanders
Auckland has much work to do to reduce its carbon footprint
How your food scraps can help the planet
Discover different eco-friendly ways to dispose of your food scraps and make a difference to Auckland's future.
Two thumb-sized mammals now regionally threatened
In new findings, two species of nocturnal bats, the size of a thumb and the weight of an AA battery, are now known to be regionally threatened.
Autumn health check for Hunua Ranges kauri begins
Hunua Ranges ready for a health check in the hope it will confirm the forest is still free of the deadly kauri dieback disease
Students tackling climate change
A group of Auckland schools are coming up with strategies to help tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions, and create a more sustainable future for New Zealand.
Aucklanders reminded to keep waterways on private property maintained
More than 80 per cent of the waterways in Auckland flow through private property and must be maintained by the landowner.
New rukenga kai (food scraps) collection about to roll out in Auckland
Auckland Council’s food scraps collection service – rukenga kai, which translates to food cast onward - is about to begin with Waitakere residents scheduled to have bins delivered in the first week of April.
Waiheke residents advised to avoid black algae
Auckland Council is asking the public to avoid black algae present on three Waiheke beaches ahead of a clean-up operation.
Motorway truck fire: advice for neighbouring residents
Auckland Council’s Environmental Health specialists have spent the day visiting properties affected by this morning’s (Wednesday 8 March) truck fire on the southern motorway and have some advice for residents.
Marty 'nose' the importance of island biosecurity
While working the waterfront in the early hours of Sunday morning, Marty the English Springer’s nose began to twitch, and he knew something was amiss.
Plant assessment gives direction to council conservation
For the first time, Auckland Council has led an assessment of the threat status of vascular plants in the region using the New Zealand Threat Classification System. It’s a comprehensive look at the population size and trends of native species as well as identifying some of the key pressures facing them.
Troops needed for war on moth plant
Moth plant is a pest that is taking hold across the city.
