BY CHERIE SIVIGNON The Kaiteriteri and Otuwhero inlets along the Tasman coast are being ecologically degraded by sediment that is smothering plant life, according to a new report. However, sedimentation in the protected Torrent Bay estuary, which has a catchment of native forest rather than … [Read more...]
Iwi ‘locked into’ forestry land linked to river damage
By KATY JONES Iwi have little option but to keep forestry on land handed back by the Crown, a top of the south iwi says. As the forestry industry faces criticism for the environmental impact of some of its operations, Ngati Koata says the structure of its settlement deal gave it little room to … [Read more...]
NZ needs to plant more trees to combat climate change – but what kind and where?
By Rebecca Macfie To counter climate change, New Zealand must vastly increase its area of forestry. But as recent disasters show, not all trees are created equal. July 2017 had been an unusually wet month on Banks Peninsula, where landowners Philip King and Sarah Lovell-Smith own the historic … [Read more...]
Council retires forestry blocks amid national shake up of forestry practices
Article by Stuff reporter Katy Jones Nelson City Council is retiring more than a fifth of its forestry blocks and building a wetland along the Maitai River, in response to concerns about the environmental impact of forestry practices locally and nationwide. The council last week released Niwa … [Read more...]
Friends of the Maitai welcome city council forestry news
The Nelson conservation group Friends of the Maitai has welcomed the news that the city council is to retire more than a fifth of its forestry land. Friends of the Maitai spokesperson Tom Kennedy said the group was ‘thrilled’ with the news, as there is now no doubt of the link between … [Read more...]
Citizen science: Monitoring the Maitai
The first Wednesday of the month finds Philippa Eberlein and her Friends of the Maitai colleagues collecting samples from the Maitai River in Nelson. It’s a monthly routine she has held since 2014 when she answered an advertisement, placed by Friends of the Maitai in the newspaper, seeking … [Read more...]
Forestry linked to damaging sediment in Nelson river
Pine forest plantations are "probably" contributing a disproportionate amount of damaging fine sediment into Nelson city's Maitai River, new research says. Recently harvested or replanted forestry land was a substantial source of sediment in the Maitai and tributaries in its upper and middle … [Read more...]
Wetland Reinstated at Groom Creek
The council recreated the Groom Creek wetland by diverting the stream that went straight down the fenceline of the Groom Creek planting area. Much planting has been done on the hillside along with streamside and riparian planting, and also in the forebay. Over 300 koura were translocated from … [Read more...]
Failure to change forestry practices harming river ecology, group says
A group living along Nelson's Maitai River want stricter forestry controls saying it is damaging the river. Katy Jones reports. Tom Kennedy has lived along the Maitai River for 30 years and says the river has changed considerably in that time. "Under the Nile Street bridge you used to see … [Read more...]
Friends of the Maitai call for Council action on forestry
The community action group Friends of the Maitai is calling on Council to take action on forestry practice. The recent Cyclone Gita floods in Marahau, Riwaka and Motueka Valley highlighted problems with forestry practice, and Friends of the Maitai spokesperson Tom Kennedy said the Maitai was also … [Read more...]
Blue-green algae monitoring starts
Council has started its summer blue-green algae (also known as cyanobacteria) monitoring programme, to ensure it can provide up-to-date information to river users on any elevated levels of algae in the Maitai River. Blue-green algae is a naturally occurring organism found throughout New Zealand. It … [Read more...]
FOM Present at the Council Meeting 9th November
Great work from Alison Horn on behalf of FOM. And Matt Lawrey please keep on asking the Nelson City Councilt tough questions about swimmability of the Maitai. The presentation also covered those pesky plastic parking tickets, the councils new environmental hotline 0800POLLUTE (great news), and the … [Read more...]
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