Archives For 30/11/1999

Seven year old Eden shares some handy information about an impostor weed, called pampas, that looks a lot like our native toetoe.

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When New Zealand closed its international border in March 2020, the Tourism Holdings Limited (thl) team in Waitomo quickly felt the proverbial door shut. Read about how Jobs for Nature programme helped keep the team in their district and community.

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Pre-pandemic, Jan and Mike Goodall were “off their feet” busy running Te Koha – a carve-your-own-pounamu studio. While their business is down pre-COVID levels, their love for nature has grown. Read all about how Jan and Mike have a softspot for Jobs for Nature and it’s impacts on their lives.

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Our teams are made up of all kinds of folk and, in the case of Wink, dogs too. Wink is a one-eyed Conservation Dog with a very important job: to help rid Aotearoa of Spartina grass. This is Wink’’s story to becoming the dog that he is today.

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Rob McGowan, a prominent rongoā Māori practitioner well respected for his work in the restoration of rongoā practise and traditional knowledge of native plants in Aotearoa, explains why we need to care for rongoā plants to help Papatūānuku thrive, even if that means using 1080.

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