Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:23 pm
Tamariki from three schools across Kāpiti took the
future of our environment into their own hands by getting
them dirty at Greater Wellington’s tree planting event in
Queen Elizabeth Park (QEP) as part of the regional
council’s winter planting programme.
Over a hundred
students from Te Rā Waldorf School, Raumati South School,
and Paekākāriki School planted 1,000 native species on the
bank of Whareroa Stream. Their efforts put a significant
dent in Greater Wellington’s mission to plant 400,000
trees across the region this winter.
The day
kicked-off with a warm welcome from Greater Wellington
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:21 pm
Hawke’s Bay Hospital has restricted visiting to its
maternity unit, children’s ward and Special Care Baby Unit
(SCBU), Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit to
help prevent further spread of RSV (respiratory syncytial
virus) to very vulnerable newborn babies and sick
children.
Medical director whānau and community’s
Dr Philip Moore said no visitors, other than parents and
main caregivers, would be able to visit Hawke’s Bay
Hospital’s maternity units; Waioha and Ata Rangi or
Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) and the children’s ward to
help protect newborn babies and sick children from catching
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 10:04 am
TVNZ has announced an extensive multi-year content deal
with NBCUniversal (NBCU) for the rights to air premium
international content from the leading media and
entertainment company on TVNZ OnDemand and TVNZ’s
free-to-air channels.
Through this agreement with
NBCUniversal Global Distribution, TVNZ has acquired hundreds
of scripted series produced by Universal Studio Group for
Peacock, NBC, USA Network and SYFY, in addition to titles
from the Oxygen and DreamWorks Animation brands, including
premium new series on global release dates and an extensive
collection of quality library titles.
Cate Slater,
TVNZ’s Director of Content, said the deal commences from
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 11:29 am
Nearly
half of Australia’s population was in lockdown last
week, as parts of New South Wales, Western Australia, the
Northern Territory and Queensland enacted strict coronavirus
restrictions.
But this angst-driven reaction of
locking down with low community transmission of COVID is not
a viable long-term strategy. This is because the coronavirus
is increasingly likely to become endemic,
meaning it will settle into the human
population.
Vaccination markedly reduces your chance
of getting severely ill and dying from COVID. Vaccination
also reduces
transmission to some extent. As vaccination rates start
to climb, we need to start moving to a calmer, more planned
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:26 pm
It takes a community to improve a catchment, as evidenced
at a planting day for a Waikato Regional Council shovel
ready project.
Te Poi School students, teachers and
families planted 500 plants in a wetland on a neighbouring
farm as part of the Upper Waiomou Stream restoration project
which has $1.74m in funding from the Jobs for Nature
programme and $74,500 from Fonterra’s environmental
partnerships programme.
The Upper Waiomou Stream
restoration project is one of 17 shovel ready projects which
Waikato Regional Council got government funding for in the
wake of COVID-19 to stimulate the construction and
environmental industries and economy, be of public or