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Our environment 2025
Our environment 2025 is the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ’s latest three-yearly update on the state of New Zealand’s environment.
The report shows that the way New Zealanders choose to live is continuing to have a significant impact on the environment, affecting our health, quality of life, homes and livelihoods in both positive & negative ways, a major report on the environment shows
Ministry for the Environment · Our environment 2025
Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds
A three-yearly environmental update issues stark warning over biodiversity – and reports air pollution has improved in some areas
The Guardian · Many native New Zealand species face threat of extinction, report finds
This "assault" on Shane Jones' wife Dot sounds almost manufactured.
Yes, a man yelled abuse at Shane Jones. Who wouldn't, given the chance. Dot claims she "went to place her hand between the two and told the man to go away." Yeah, right. 'Go away, man!'
But the next piece is probably more accurate.
“His nose hit my palm and he said I assaulted him and he wanted my name.”
“His nose hit my palm..."
The security footage will be revealing.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360642633/dot-jones-wife-nz-firsts-shane-jones-assaulted-airport
www.stuff.co.nzStuff
"Australia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling"
I wonder what the budget is here?
https://theconversation.com/australia-spends-714-per-person-on-roads-every-year-but-just-90-cents-goes-to-walking-wheeling-and-cycling-247902
The ConversationAustralia spends $714 per person on roads every year – but just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling
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The Conversation AU + NZ
Anyone in here #nz have Mercury as their broadband provider? Have you ever had random issues with email or websites being unavailable, especially in the last fortnight or so?
Asking for not one, but two friends.
Check out this rare orange colour morph of a North Island kākā, reported on #iNaturalistNZ from Aotea Great Barrier Island by a new iNat user, karlliec.
Lloyd Esler commented that "Apparently a colour morph known from the old times. There is one in Southland Museum. The man who shot it was fined two pounds I think as the red morph was protected. There is a book called The Red Kaka."
iNaturalist NZNorth Island Kākā (Subspecies Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis)North Island Kākā from Aotea Conservation Park, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, NZ on April 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM by Karllie Clifton. This is a kākā but it has way more orange than any we have seen here before. Just wondering if an...
ACT MP Dr Parmjeet Parmer can’t name one ‘race-based’ policy she’s trying to outlaw https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/04/02/act-mp-cant-name-one-race-based-policy-shes-trying-to-outlaw/
Thank you AUT Dean of Law, Khylee Quince
Why did Parmar draft "The Education and Training (Equal Training) Amendment Bill"?
Why has no #NZ journalist asked before they wrote a story based on her press release?
Te Ao Māori NewsACT MP can’t name one ‘race-based’ policy she’s trying to outlaw
Self portrait feat. one of my fav gothy looks rn. Taken at some ungodly hour in the city center while freshly gardened lmao. #nightphotography #night #streetphotography #selfportrait #photography #goth #gothic #punk #punkphotography #gothphotography #nz #nzphotography #aotearoa #tewhanganuiatara #wellington #fujifilm
Cutting emissions not 'woke' just sensible say NZ Super Fund investment managers
The managers of the New Zealand Super Fund say they apply a sustainable finance and climate lens to every activity they have
RNZ · Cutting emissions not 'woke' just sensible say NZ Super Fund investment managers
And he didn't play golf every weekend costing Ukrainians $3 million each weekend for a security detail. #USA #Canada #Australia #EU #UK #NZ
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Daily Footrot - squasged
(I think our collie feels the same way)
Check out Aotearoa's five-finger looper moth, Xyridacma alectoraria. It's a big, elegant, yellow moth with a fringe of *hot pink*.
This one came into my home moth light in January, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, and I uploaded it to #iNaturalist today.
My best guess for why it looks like this is that the older leaves of its host plant, five-finger, often turn yellow before they fall. I'm not sure why the hot pink works (but it does).
I've been sorting through moth photos this afternoon and re-found this one I took in 2013. Stare if you dare at the big fluffy face of a NZ Green-Marked Owlet moth.
Flickrmoth stare
Last weekend I walked the loop track from Arataki visitor centre. It was a beautiful day with amazing views from the top viewing platform - unfortunately it's always difficult to capture that in photos.
#walk #NZ #Waitakere
Avian #Influenza Virus #Surveillance Across #NZ and Its Subantarctic #Islands Detects #H1N9 in Migratory #Shorebirds, but Not 2.3.4.4b HPAI #H5N1, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/03/avian-influenza-virus-surveillance.html
etidiohnew.blogspot.comAvian #Influenza Virus #Surveillance Across #NZ and Its Subantarctic #Islands Detects #H1N9 in Migratory #Shorebirds, but Not 2.3.4.4b HPAI #H5N1
New Climate Target ‘Below Expectations’ Of Partners, Government Warned
RNZ. The government was told its climate target for 2035 was “below expectations” for a developed country
community.scoop.co.nzCommunity Scoop » New Climate Target ‘Below Expectations’ Of Partners, Government Warned
That's no moon...that's a monarch butterfly!
I found this fantastic mural today in Linwood, Ōtautahi, NZ.
I am not sure what artistic statement is being made here. I'd like to think that the rebels are fighting the Death Star with a moon-sized monarch butterfly. Flap flap slap!
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#TeslaTakeDown - #Auckland, #Mangere, #NewZealand
3/29 Global day of action!
WHEN: Saturday, March 29, 10:30am-11:30am
WHERE: Tesla Auckland - South
147 Kirkbride Rd, Māngere, Auckland, 2022 NZ
LINK: https://actionnetwork.org/events/tesla-takedown-tamaki-makaurau
actionnetwork.orgTāmaki Makaurau joins global day of action Tesla Takedown protests against fascismWe are protesting against the fascist coup occurring in the United States of America. Trump's election was funded by billionaire CEO of Tesla, the deplorable Elon Musk. Under Musk, the second Trump administration is gutting government departments and undoing decades of hard-won progress. When Tesla loses money, Musk loses money. So boycott Tesla and join the Tesla Takedown!
We encourage people to join our peaceful picket outside the Tesla warehouse in Māngere, South Auckland on Saturday, the International Day of Action #TeslaTakedown, from 10.30am to 11.30am.
We are standing in solidarity with the many migrants who are being snatched and imprisoned into detention camps and forcibly removed from the USA under the racism and political prejudice which Musk incites.
We are making a show of solidarity for Palestine supporters who are being deported and politically repressed.
We are in solidarity with all disabled people with uncertain futures as the Trump regime slashes the availability of government support.
We are in solidarity with people who need to access reproductive health but have been stripped of this right, as people in power enforce their religious beliefs on civic society.
We are in solidarity with everyone impacted by the anti-DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) purge which includes defunding education, programmes and research, deleting information and firing people who don't fit into the conservative Agenda 2025 plan. We stand in solidarity with LGBTQIA+ Americans facing erasure and criminalisation for being their authentic selves.
The creation of the Department of Governmental Efficiency - a pseudo-governmental agency headed by one of the richest men in the world, and staffed by handpicked officials - represents one of the most flagrant examples of wealth influencing politics in decades, and underlines the continuing trend of ostensibly democratic governments shelving the needs of their people, in favour of those of oligarchs and billionaires.
We are appalled by the mass firing of Government workers, as well as the cuts to social programmes created to support the marginalised and vulnerable, while companies which Musk holds large shares of ownership, benefit from continued subsidies, tax credits, and government orders. The US Government has become a textbook example of corruption.
Both Elon Musk and Tesla are notorious for their harsh stance on unions and worker's organisations. By protesting Tesla, we are not only sending a message that the sort of democratic backsliding that is happening in the USA won't be accepted here in Aotearoa, but also standing in solidarity with Tesla workers and their right to organise.
On the world stage, the US government has presented a threat to peace, with President Trump enthusiastically supporting and abetting criminal administrations in Russia and Israel, while repeatedly threatening the sovereignty of neighbouring states such as Canada and Greenland. As advocates for human rights and international law, our Government has no business cooperating militarily with the US administration.
Meanwhile in Aotearoa, we have seen glaring similarities to the Trump administration with the firing of public sector employees and broad hiring freezes, with claims that these workers were superfluous to efficiency.
These cuts have even targeted vital sectors such as Te Whatu Ora, and the Māori Health Authority. Despite these austerity measures, the National government has prioritised tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and landlords.
The Government has made numerous attacks on Māori through rushed law changes and hotly contended bills; bills which aim to strip references to Te Tiriti o Waitangi from New Zealand’s laws and disadvantage Tāngata Whenua. New Zealand First and ACT, are taking a page out of the MAGA playbook, using attacks on the rights of transgender people and culture war rhetoric to divide and distract the public from the crisis of capitalism and its outcome, climate change.
Trump's regime is not a tenable ally for Aotearoa New Zealand. We demand the NZ Government stands up to the global menace, Trump, and withdraws the New Zealand Defense Force from cooperation agreements and exercises with the US Military.
Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly.
#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla