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Latest E. Coli reading, 07 February 2023: 389 (orange).

Large striped bird with beet feet crossing the road.

The Strathnaver Bittern

Matuku-hūrepo | Australasian bittern are severely threatened, facing an immediate high risk of extinction, and yet today [30 January 2023] one was strolling around in the vicinity of 171 Strathnaver…

Map with arrows showing we are moving east.

We’re all moving east round here

We’re moving east — about 4 cm so far this year. That’s thanks to a slow-slip earthquake on the Hikurangi subduction plate boundary offshore the North Island’s east coast. We…

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The disappearing land at Waikawa Beach

[Ropata Miratana] said there had been a lot of Māori land at Waikawa Beach but since 1900 it had disappeared. The article Iwi still flying the flag seeking justice and…