Environment
By John Freer Before assisting in cutting the ribbon to signal the reopening of the Cathedral Cove walking track, Conservation Minister, the Honourable Tama Potaka, summed up why all the fuss over the past 22 months. The Ministers used words such as magical and iconic in describing Coromandel Peninsula’s leading tourism destination and one of […]
By John Freer As work continues to reopen the walking track to Mautohe Cathedral Cove by early December so do efforts to establish a management plan for the region’s leading tourist attraction. Last week the various stakeholders involved with Cathedral Cove met, under the control of Destination Hauraki Chairman John Sandford. In speaking with CFM, […]
By John Freer A wrestle now over another of the iconic Coromandel Peninsula walking tracks. The Coastal Walkway between Fletcher Bay and Stony Bay remains closed due to a number of storm related landslides. Coromandel Colville Community Board chairman and local tour operator, Gavin Jeffcoat, along with CFM, recently walked part of the closed track. Our […]
Work will start next week on the new walking track to Cathedral Cove – this confirmed today by the Department of Conservation. In a media release DOC announced that the removal of dangerous trees and self-sewn wilding pines marks the start of physical work to reinstate temporary walking access to Mautohe Cathedral Cove’s iconic beach. […]
Preliminary results from sampling conducted after the Ohinemuri River turned bright orange on Friday have detected elevated arsenic in the discharged sediment, while the arsenic content present in the water was well within drinking water and ecological protection guidelines for fresh water. This today in a media release from the Waikato Regional Council. Environmental Chemistry […]
Waikato Regional Council is expecting preliminary results in the next 24 hours from sampling of sediment that turned the Ohinemuri River bright orange on Friday afternoon. The council has today provided an update. The council’s incident response team were on site on Friday afternoon and Saturday, taking water and solid samples upstream and downstream of […]
By John Freer Following the recent announcement that Hillary Outdoors is establishing a marine and conservation education training facility at Port Charles, CEO Hillary Campbell details the project. Open the link below to hear our interview.
By John Freer As the country’s leading provider of youth outdoor education experiences, Hillary Outdoors is coming to the Coromandel Peninsula. From term one next year a marine and conservation centre will be provided at Port Charles, this confirmed yesterday with the purchase of the Tangiaro Kiwi Retreat property. Until now all programmes have been […]
By John Freer News this week that the highly invasive Exotic Caulerpa has been found on the Coromandel Peninsula coastline comes with a claim that it is the most serious marine pest invasion yet to occur in New Zealand. That observation comes from Professor Emeritus, Barry Shaw, of Massey University, who last month released a […]
DOC has today announced the options being explored to reinstate walking access to Coromandel’s Cathedral Cove. This is the information released in a media statement. The popular walking track to the picturesque beach has been closed since February 2023, due to damage caused by extreme weather events. DOC’s Hauraki Waikato Taranaki Regional Director Tinaka […]
