News & events

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020

Canterbury is now at Alert Level 1. This means a return to "business as usual" for Environment Canterbury services, buildings and staff.

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020

Environment Canterbury Chair Jenny Hughey has welcomed the Government’s declaration of a climate emergency.

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020

Learning about traditional mahinga kai, in and around our waterways was the theme of a special community meeting and hāngī in Omarama.

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020

Kaikōura Plains Recovery Project has worked with staff and local landowners post-quake, identifying and managing significantly wet areas on-farm.

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020

Improving water quality at Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon is the aim of a pollution prevention programme with local industrial businesses.

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 by Jenny Hughey, Chair, Environment Canterbury

Climate change, natural habitat loss and species extinctions, increasing pollution in our oceans need to be on top of our priority list.

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 by Kevin Heays

Kaikōura Zone Delivery Manager Kevin Heays provides an update on effluent testing in the district.

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020

Join the Otipua-Saltwater Creek Catchment Group for a week of 'Bioblitz' themed events around Timaru.

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020

A jet skier has received the first infringement for the summer season, after colliding with another vessel on Loch Laird.

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020

One project is seeing community, contractors and councils work together to implement new stormwater technologies, aiming to improve stream health in Kaikōura.

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020

New pathways, fencing and tracks around the mouth of the Hakatere/Ashburton River are improving the environment for the many native birds that inhabit the area.

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020

A recent funding boost will help local, regional and national stakeholders protect Waiau Toa/Clarence River's bird habitat and rare plant species.