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@GregCocks @TheGuardian Bring in the beavers.

Tame the water or let it flow? New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided riversIntervention for farming and flood risk change the unique systems as communities grapple with how to live alongside the vital waterways When British settlers started building Christchurch city 170 years ago, they largely ignored the nearby Waimakariri River, which twists from t...https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/tame-the-water-or-let-it-flow-new-zealand-grapples-with-how-to-protect-its-braided-rivers#NewZealand #Rivers #AsiaPacific #Environment #TheGuardian(Wed, 6 May 2026 23:32:05 +0000)

In Wellington, Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono introduced the Tohorā Oranga Bill — the Whale Health Bill — proposing legal personhood for Pacific whales. Not protection. Personhood. Rights to freedom of movement, healthy environment, habitat restoration, protected social structures. The bill rises from years of Indigenous advocacy, from the He Whakaputanga Moana Declaration signed by Polynesian leaders in 2024. Twenty-two percent of New Zealand's whales and marine mammals face extinction. While one empire strips every restraint from corporations, another parliament at the bottom of the Pacific decides a sperm whale is a person under law. The land has always known what we are pretending to discover. This is not sentiment. This is metaphysics rewritten. https://twp.ai/4hpmrw #Nature #Law #WhalePersonhood #NewZealand #IndigenousRights #Tohorā #EnvironmentalLaw #PacificOcean #Conservation #LegalRights #MarineBiology #DeepEcology

New Zealand High Court Rules Against National Super Fund for Inconsistent Application of Ethical Criteria | BDS Movement (2026-04-29)https://bdsmovement.net/news/New-Zealand-National-Super-Fund-Ethical-Criteria———>> The High Court of New Zealand, in a recent ruling, found the policy referenced by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) in defense of its investments in companies complicit in Israel’s international crimes to be “unreasonable and unlawful.” The Guardians of the Fund failed their statutory duty to invest in a manner consistent with “avoiding prejudice to New Zealand’s reputation as a responsible member of the world community,” the Court declared, thereby underscoring “internationalism” as the source of the Fund’s duties to adhere to the standards of ethical investment. Crucially, the Fund was consequently ordered to reformulate its investment policy…#PalestineSolidarityNetworkAotearoa #NZSuper #BDS #NewZealand #EconomyOfGenocide #palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

Early Gift - Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.Hawke's Bay hills at sunrise, when mist still pools between the folds and two trees catch the first gold before the rest of the world wakes.#photography #landscape #newzealand

@jens yeah, someone lse just raised that. I didn't know but I'll pass it on to the peeps at CAN.

@skinnylatte I love those thingsbig silly walking parrot

@meejah Thanks! I wish - unfortunately the birds are pigeons.