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We’re wiping out water weeds

Names like Water Celery and Vietnamese Parsley may sound exotic but they are actually nasty invasive pest plants that are choking some of our waterways around…

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What’s been happening at Wai-iti River?

Working with Taylors Contracting Ltd, we’ve recently carried out some important maintenance around the Wai-iti River.

This mostly involved the layering of willow trees and topping of…

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Community cooperation for Coastcare

Residents of Pūponga in Mohua/Golden Bay are already looking ahead 12 months following their first community Coastcare planting project late last month.

About two dozen people got…

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Deliberate dumpers damage plantings

We are very proud of our plantings along the banks of our stormwater corridors around Tasman.

They’ve come a long way over the past few years and…

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Velvetleaf a conundrum for crops

Have you seen this pest plant? For the health of our crops, we hope not.

Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) is an Exclusion Pest in the Tasman Nelson Regional…

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Magpies high on pest pecking order

Australian Magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) were first introduced to the region in 1865 from Victoria Australia to control pastoral insect pests. The magpie’s most distinctive characteristic is…