Environment Canterbury is inviting landowners and community groups to apply for a share of $2 million in annual funding to protect and restore Canterbury’s unique native biodiversity. Environment Canterbury Regional Programmes Manager Stephen Hall said [...]

Recent headlines in the media have highlighted the issues associated with controlling numbers of Canada geese around Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere and other water bodies. From June 9th 2011 Canada geese were moved from Schedule 1 [...]

A health warning has been issued by Canterbury District Health Board because of increased concentrations of toxic algae (cyanobacteria) in Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere. People and animals should avoid contact with the lake until the warning [...]

The Selwyn-Waihora Zone Implementation Programme for water management was formally received by Environment Canterbury at its council meeting on Thursday December 15, 2011. A copy can be downloaded from the ECan website.

The full programme, including brief abstracts, has now been added to this website on a new events page - Living Lake Symposium 2011 Some presentations can be downloaded now and the rest will be made [...]

The field trip on Saturday November 19th, organised as a follow up to the hugely successsful Living Lake, Changing Catchment symposium held earlier in the week, will head off from Lincoln at 1pm. If you [...]