The many environmental education opportunities offered by Northland’s harbours have been highlighted to 29 teachers at two special Regional Council workshops in Waitangi this week.
Residents of some of Northland’s most flood-prone communities are being invited to meet with local authorities to update existing knowledge about - and help find possible solutions to – flooding issues.
The Northland Regional Council’s award-winning website has scooped two new accolades – one national, the other global – in a fortnight.
Schools are being urged to act quickly to try to win a share of this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards.
Northland Regional Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth and Whangarei Mayor Stan Semenoff have expressed deep gratitude at the announcement today of $2.5 million in Government funding for Whangarei’s regional multi-events centre.
Applications are now open for a $500,000 Northland Regional Council fund designed to help people protect and enhance the region’s precious natural environment.
More than 800 grass carp are to be released into Kaipara’s Lake Roto-otuauru in a bid to wipe out two invasive weeds threatening some of the nation’s most precious dune lakes.
A proposed rate to help fund the region’s rescue helicopter service dominates comments made by 300-plus submitters to the Northland Regional Council’s Draft Northland Community Plan 2009-2019.
More than 20,000 litres of water has been drained from a large, unstable hill posing a potential threat to Kaitaia township.