Cattle disease fight set to split rural NZ
Cabinet today to decide on the weapon for cattle disease fight but army is divided.
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.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be answering media questions from 4.15pm.
The Govt has not yet given up hope of eradicating M. Bovis from farms.
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.
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.
Sir David Attenborough wants NZ and Oz to document all species before it's too late.
More than 8000 vehicles have been sent back from Auckland's port due to a stinky problem
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.
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.
Auckland man finds 12cm centipede in luggage after arriving from Australia.
Harri the galah has left New Zealand and will be reunited with her family on Sunday.
For the first time in NZ, hundreds of Japan’s Honshu white admiral butterflies have been successfully reared as a biocontrol agent for Japanese honeysuckle. Credit: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Forest and Bird say Auckland Council's part closure of Waitakeres is confusing people.
Following a string of major incursions, Professor Travis Glare discusses NZ's biosecurity.