For Terry Wearmouth being part of restoring Kaipara Moana is much more than business, it’s personal. We tell his story on World Wetlands Day.
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Nature knows best, is the philosophy that artist Bill Sutton lived by. And it’s reflected in the garden of his old Christchurch home, according to Dr Wendy Hoddinott who’s been writing a landscape conservation plan for the property.
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Te Araroa is home to idyllic coastlines, deep valleys of bush, a laid-back way of life and now the country’s first reported mature tree deaths from myrtle rust.
Environmentalists are warning New Zealand needs to save its wetlands to achieve its climate goals. They say peat wetlands are more powerful than tropical forests at absorbing carbon, and our Government needs to devise a plan to protect and recharge them.
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New tools being developed to help boost Aotearoa’s Predator Free 2050 effort have been unveiled by Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage and Under Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau.
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Legendary English broadcaster, writer, and naturalist Sir David Attenborough is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Landscape Institute Medal.
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An alliance of councils, iwi and the Department of Conservation in the top of the South Island plans to work collectively with their communities to restore natural landscapes across the region – from west to east and from the mountains to the sea.
Environmental enterprise Treespace has deferred its resource consent application while it gathers more material to satisfy Queenstown Lakes District Council concerns around the subdivision code, landscape visual effects and how well plants will grow on Mt Dewar.
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As part of the 40 th anniversary of the publication of Ian Mcharg seminal book, Design with Nature, the University of Pennsylvania are organising an exhibition of 25 landscape project from around the world that have been inspired by the writing of Ian Mcharg. Dennis Scott and Associates have been invited to be part of the exhibition and have taken the opportunity to showcase one of their best-known projects , the Western Waiheke Entrance Landscape.
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The generosity of “young” landscape architect, Jeremy Parlane, has helped an Auckland couple realise their dream of transforming a dairy farm into native forest for the public.
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Improvements to Campbell Crescent and the Sir John Logan Campbell Fountain are one of the first projects to be implemented from the award-winning Cornwall Park Master Plan, developed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in collaboration with Boffa Miskell for the Cornwall Park Trust Board.
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Imagine if those scuffling sounds you hear in your garden at night were kiwi poking around looking for bugs. According to two University of Otago academics, the idea is not so far-fetched.
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