News releases
Dog safety warning for the Hutt River and Eastern Harbour beaches
Greater Wellington Regional Council is warning dog owners to keep their dogs away from the Hutt River and Wellington Harbour beaches until its staff have checked these areas for possum carcasses poisoned with 1080.
Calling our environmental champions
Are you working alongside Greater Wellington to protect and enhance our region's environment? If so, why not enter the Greater Wellington Environmental Awards.
Tools for travelling smarter
A “workplace toolbox”, containing a range of options for work commuting and business travel, is a new feature of the Wellington regional travel demand management plan, now out for public consultation.
Plan to make region's roads safer
Training for inexperienced drivers, motorcycling skills courses, and raising awareness of driver fatigue are included in a new proposed plan to improve road safety throughout the Wellington region.
Going native in Riversdale
Whareama School pupils and teachers spent the afternoon helping the Riversdale Dune Restoration Committee plant a selection of native plants to help stabilise the dunes, including the sand-binding grasses spinifex and pingao and the tough shrub coprosma propinqua.
Greater Wellington to review regional plans – new committee established
A new approach to managing the region’s natural resources – combining regulatory and non-regulatory methods – was unveiled today by the Greater Wellington Regional Council.
Greater Wellington helps to warm up the region
Greater Wellington Regional Council decided today that it would participate in the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's home insulation and clean heating scheme by providing a grant of up to $2,600 per ratepayer to fund the remaining cost of home insulation and clean heating over and above the monies provided by EECA. This grant would then be repaid by way of a targeted rate over a 10-year period. Greater Wellington's grant scheme should be available from September 2009.
Nasty threat to gardens, bush and water
Two nasty botanical visitors could be strangling and smothering gardens, waterways and bush reserves in your area, says Greater Wellington Biosecurity officer Richard Grimmett.
Whitebaiters urged to take care of the coast
With the whitebait season about to get underway, Greater Wellington is urging whitebaiters to take care around the region's sensitive dune and estuarine areas.
Pollen blooms no cause for alarm
Have you seen a fine yellow dust along the coastline or in your local stream recently?