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A tramping club was shocked to find out mid-hike their new member was just months out of prison and previously planned to decapitate a police...

Members of the Banks Peninsula Native Forest/Climate Change group this month met with Climate Change Minister James Shaw to outline the difficulties they face. Projects that followed in Hinewai’s footsteps allowed native bush to grow back on its own without any planting, using gorse as a nurse plant. But members told Shaw many were struggling to meet ETS guidelines. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust manager Suky Thompson makes her way down the Te Ahu Pātiki block. The trust needed money from carbon credits to help pay for ongoing fencing and pest control but in an as...

Amber Allott05:00, Jun 05 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF The Press's Buy the Hill campaign is in support of the Rod Donald Trust's vision to buy Christchurch's highest peak to secure public access and the regeneration of native forest. (First published May 26, 2021) An invasive weed interlocked in constant battle with farmers will be key to transforming Christchurch’s highest peaks back into native bush. Stuff and The Press helped the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust crowdfund the last $120,000 it needed for its Te Ahu Pātiki project through Givealittle. The charitable trust had been raising ...

OPINION: We knew the rain was coming. What could we do but hunker down.

A photograph capturing two rainbows falling into Christchurch’s highest peaks has won a competition to highlight the land Kiwis have just raised enough money to buy.