We feel extremely privileged to be hosting these fine poets as they join Wānaka Festival of Colour Aspiring Conversations. A celebration of #BIPOC storytellers & #SpokenWord artists. #DirtyPassports is sold out. There are tickets still available to the festival: festivalofcolour.co.nz

Community connection & resilience. We're perpetually happy to provide space for birds & bees, vegies & trees, flowers & leaves, & the good people doing the good work of #GrowWānaka. Join Saturday working bees, workshops, events, donate or subscribe here: growwanaka.com

We’re open for Winter. Te hōtoke is such a special time of year. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." - John Steinbeck

The Minister of Conservation gets a grilling at Scrutiny Week. My #cartoon today #nzpol #EndangeredSpecies

The Minister for the Environment. For the Environment. My #cartoon today #nzpol #environment

A kaikōhau is an expression of hope in te reo Māori. Use this kaikōhau to welcome Matariki this year. #ReoMāori #Kaikōhau

We’re absolutely guttered by this news. The knowledge microplastics are in such high concentrations in our lake is a staggering realisation for the immense destructive activity humankind continues to pursue. #WaterIsLife newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

The average global temperature has warmed 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels for past 12 months My #cartoon today #climate #TippingPoint

Biodiversity crisis? What biodiversity crisis?

Running, strolling, skipping, riding around #Wānaka lakefront as our tracks are so good. Did you know #TeAraroa trail, one of the world’s most diverse long distance trails, spanning the length of Aotearoa cuts right through the #OutletCamp Learn more: teararoa.org.nz

The hour is late for saving the NZ fairy tern, tara iti, with only an estimated 35 adults birds remaining. Encouraging to see the research now being done on how to successfully breed from this small population. #NZ has the skills to prevent its extinction: rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

"There are plenty of people throwing their support behind our birds, which is great, because we love our birds but 80 percent of them are in trouble, so we should learn about them while we're having fun." #birdoftheyear2024 Forest & Bird rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Can’t stop of movement. Just saying.

A chain of three cafes closed down and the owner blamed cycleways. But none of the cafes were anywhere near one. How is that possible? I investigated the mystery. What I found shocked me to my core. thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/10-…

PETITION: Call on the New Zealand Government to urgently send an oil cleanup team to Sāmoa to clean up the Manawanui oil spill: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/nz-u… via 350 Aotearoa