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All of Northern peninsula (land and sea) protected from GE/GMOs

Source: GE Free New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: All of Northern peninsula (land and sea) protected from GE/GMOs

GE-Free Northland

11 August 2020  Media release

 

All of Northern peninsula (land and sea) protected from GE/GMOs

“A bouquet for Northland Regional Council”

 

GE-Free Tai Tokerau welcomes the news that Northland Regional Council

has placed precautionary and prohibitive GE/GMO wording into the new

Regional Plan. The Environment Court has accepted the addition, which

enabled Far North District Council and Whangarei District Council to

withdraw their joint appeal against NRC.

 

“Northland region’s valuable agricultural, horticultural, apiculture,

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Northland communities urge Northland Regional Council to protect the region’s existing GE Free status

Source: GE Free New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Northland communities urge Northland Regional Council to protect the region’s existing GE Free status

 

GE Free Northland
2 November 2018 Media Release
Gene edited organisms are GMOs and are unacceptable in Northland
Northland communities urge Northland Regional Council to protect the region’s valuable GE free status


More than one hundred submissions (lodged in response to the Northland Regional Council’s proposed new Regional Plan) strongly back alignment with Auckland and Northland District Council plans that already contain provisions and policies created for the purpose of protectiing the Northern peninsula’s valuable GE-Free status. 

 

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VICTORY FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES- FEDERATED FARMERS OF NZ DROP CONTROVERSIAL GMO APPEAL

Source: GE Free New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: VICTORY FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES- FEDERATED FARMERS OF NZ DROP CONTROVERSIAL GMO APPEAL

VICTORY FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES- FEDERATED FARMERS OF NZ DROP CONTROVERSIAL GMO APPEAL 

GE-FREE Northland 

26 May 2018 Media release


 

GE-Free Northland are celebrating the news that Federated Farmers of NZ have finally withdrawn their controversial GE/GMO appeal against Whangarei District Council and Far North District Council (1).

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New Zealand’s most devastating predators’ genomes sequenced. DNA codes broken for stoat and ship rat

Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: New Zealand’s most devastating predators’ genomes sequenced. DNA codes broken for stoat and ship rat

The DNA secrets of the Predator Free 2050 programme’s most wanted species have been revealed.
The complete genome of the stoat is now available to researchers on the US-based National Center
for Biotechnology Information genome database, hard on the heels of the ship rat genome.

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How many moa?

Source: Landcare Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: How many moa?

Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world – including the nine species of moa in New Zealand.

Dave Latham and colleagues used population data from living species of flightless birds to estimate how many moa these islands might have once supported.

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NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 23 January 2019

Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 23 January 2019

The previous hotspot in the Far North dissipated around the Aupouri Peninsula in the past week, but has spread south into northern Whangarei and Kaipara districts. The current hotspot in Tasman could strengthen in the next week, while central Canterbury may see a new hotspot form in the coming week.

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NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 16 January 2019

Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 16 January 2019

The previous hotspot in the Far North has expanded in size during the past week, now encompassing much of the eastern Far North and the Aupouri Peninsula. A hotspot remains in place across Nelson and nearby portions of Tasman, but no other South Island hotspots are in effect at this time.

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NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 9 January 2019

Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 9 January 2019

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing these soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought.

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The eel earbone detective

Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: The eel earbone detective

As a young child growing up on an Irish farm, one of Eimear Egan’s chores was to regularly clean out the well from where her family drew its drinking water. In the well lived a large eel that, no matter how many times it was shifted, just kept coming back.

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NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 19 December 2018

Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: NIWA’s Hotspot Watch for 19 December 2018

Across the North Island, soil moisture levels either decreased slightly or remained the same during the past week. Across the South Island, soil moisture remained near normal or above normal in the central and eastern part of the island during the past week while areas in the west have near normal or below normal soil moisture.

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