Time to have your say about the future of the CAN It was a wet night last Thursday when John Walsh, Director of Pest Management for Biosecurity New Zealand (Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI)), and two colleagues fronted up to … Read More
Food resilience, and reusing all food scraps, go hand in hand, ensuring no nutritious resources end up in landfill and potentially saving you money. This Food Recovery Hierarchy illustrates the most to the least sustainable ways to reduce or get … Read More
Small Island Big Ideas (SIBI) latest project “Outside In” is a podcast series that connects Aotea to other small (in fact, tiny) islands around the world which have undergone some sort of transformation through realising a ‘big idea’. Thanks … Read More
Robyn Margaret Joynes(nee Goodison, formerly Scrimgeour)23 December 1944 – 7 July 2024 Robyn’s dad Jim Goodison returned home from the second world war in the Middle East, married his teenage sweetheart Jean Wright and Robyn arrived just before Christmas, an … Read More
In July, we hosted three conservation volunteers for a few days on Aotea to support the planting of over 700 trees. Amy Dent, a marine biologist, and Tejo Schie a retired physio doing full-time conservation volunteering including guiding on Tiritiri … Read More
Water Pennywort is currently an eradication species on Aotea, it is native to North America and parts of South America. Water Pennywort can grow as a creeping plant or floating mat depending on conditions. It spreads by rhizomes underground. It … Read More
After years of concerted effort by local and off island contractors Aotea / Great Barrier Island was declared free of feral goats in 2006. Given its rugged terrain and the considerable effort that was required to access some areas, the … Read More
“It is time to put the events of Sunday 28th July behind me, but a few points are worth making.” First and foremost – “thank you” to all those who helped get me out of the situation into which I … Read More
Back in April, the island was lucky to get a visit from leading mental health and addiction specialist Peter Thorburn and he is returning in August. Peter triumphed over a 23-year battle with addiction and held two astounding hui on the island – … Read More
Do you have spare building materials lying around for a school kitchen project? A group of architecture students from University of Auckland are on the hunt for building materials to help them design and build a bespoke ‘shed’ like structure … Read More