The Catalyst Group: planning and environment

02/09/2024

↪️REDIRECT↩️ A final random post here from us as we now share our thoughts over on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thecatalystgroup-planningandenvironment

06/03/2022

Our Northland Regional Conservation Manager, Dean Baigent-Mercer, reckons pines shouldn't be considered permanent carbon sinks.
As our Forest Correspondent he takes a good look at new native forests - the fire-resistant ones we need to plant as permanent carbon sinks, the native forests that are coming back by themselves and the help they need.
Listen to his interview on RNZ Nights 👇
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018831907/new-native-forests

16/02/2022

The Endurance22 expedition will explore one of the coldest and most remote locations in the world, in a quest to find the wreck of Endurance.

31/01/2022

29/01/2022

Check out this event Lincoln University are putting on for World Wetland Day!

Listen in to learn more about all of the amazing things wetlands do for us and the environment

17/01/2022

Mark Thomson has spent years and about $175,000 deer fencing his farm, but fears his 90 hectares of bush may not grow back.

14/01/2022

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2304458-largest-ever-fish-colony-hosts-100-billion-eggs-under-antarctic-ice/

In the Weddell Sea near Antarctica, scientists have found the largest colony of fish nests in the world, covering 240 square kilometres

14/01/2022

New Zealand’s native bats, also known by their Māori name pekapeka, are thriving at sites in Fiordland and the central...

04/11/2021

Jane Goodall, the world's best-known living primatologist, explains how she advocates for change and shares a key message from her latest book - that hope is a tool for progress.

30/10/2021

'Dear editors. You have the power—and the responsibility—to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis.'