Harbour under threat from Asian crabs
Aggressive invaders will eat native crabs' food. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Aggressive invaders will eat native crabs' food. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
To put the proposed M.Bovis cattle cull in context, we killed 4.2 million cattle in 2017.
MPI still investigating how M. bovis got into New Zealand
About 150,000 cows will be culled from Kiwi farms.
EDITORIAL: The Cabinet faced an invidious decision on the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.
Cabinet today to decide on the weapon for cattle disease fight but army is divided.
Will culling continue? Government decision tomorrow on M. Bovis cattle disease
M. Bovis will not stop the annual movement of farmers and their cattle
Government won't reveal how much of the M. bovis costs farmers will cover.
COMMENT: Eradicating disease is a costly exercise but it's certainly worth trying.
Comment: Ministry has been open and honest on efforts to halt or control serious disease.
Farmers could be asked to contribute to a new fund for biosecurity threats.
Myrtle rust has reached Feilding, Hawera and Palmerston North. Now it's in Whanganui.
COMMENT: Taxpayer bailout undeserved after rural misuse of the Nait scheme.
EDITORIAL: A rethink of the way cows are managed is required to deal with outbreak.
COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.
Following EU's ban on neonicotinoid pesticides would cause headaches for NZ, experts say.
Fly-overs reveal hundreds of new sites possibly infected with kauri dieback disease.
A report from the front line in campaign to keep the brown marmorated stink bug out of NZ.
COMMENT: Council has made a brave decision on kauri dieback. Now it has to make it work.
Myrtle rust has spread south and an ecologist says its incursion is a hard lesson for NZ.
They bother us, sting us and plague our environment. Is there hope in wiping out the wasp?
DOC is working to find out if there is a stoat on Motutapu, Rangitoto or Motuihe.
Warmer weather could make us prone to more foreign, disease-carrying mosquitos.
The green algae, used in fish tanks and terrariums, is a threat to our waterways.
Britain's top privacy watchdog gets a warrant to search the offices of Cambridge Analytica
A million sterile codling moths are opening export doors. Made with funding from NZ On Air
Officials are intercepting more brown marmorated stink bugs and we should all be worried.
Fungus can adversely affect myrtle species, including pohutukawa, manuka and kanuka.
COMMENT: Divert some defence money to fighting stink bugs, argues Brian Rudman.