Featuring Jazzy Vocals on Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Litia's telly review on Viewmaster, and track selections and recommendations from Cam on From The Crate thanks to Southbound Records!
Featuring an interview with The D4, plus Ready Steady Learn thanks to The University of Auckland. This week's Short Player features a snippet of Hunter's chat with Reb Fountain about her new album How Love Bends, which also happens to be the 95bFM Album of the Week this week!
For our election coverage we talk to TOP's Geoff Simmons about all things local economy, then divulge into a look at innovation in agriculture to assess agricultural policies by, with both Mark Ross of Agcarm and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy of For The Love of Bees.
In the Community Garden, Ihaia from Ōtara Waterways and Lakes Trust joins us to discuss what they are all about.
Neighbourhood Watch could be live across the ditch soon with quarantine-free travel!
But still over the phone (for now), Justin and Zoe talked about Australia significantly failing to hit their COVID-19 vaccination targets and a legal battle over drilling in South Australia's Lake Torrens.
Palaeontologists digging near Saint Bathans in Central Otago have discovered a fossil that probably belonged to the Southern Hemisphere’s oldest known swan species. The Bannockburn Swan lived between 16 and 19 million years ago on Lake Manuherikia, a huge lake covering most of modern Central Otago.
Joe spoke to Paul Scofield, a Senior Curator of Natural History and Adjunct Professor in Palaeontology in the Geology Department at the University of Canterbury, about the discovery.
A new poll has highlighted that 82% of National voters said it was important to them to protect lakes, rivers, and drinking water. 54% cited specific concerns for nitrate contamination in water.
This is despite proposed Government rollbacks on fresh water protection, which Greenpeace claims will lead to “more polluted lakes, more unswimmable rivers, more contaminated drinking water, and more extinction.”
Caeden spoke with Greenpeace’s Will Applebe about why there is such a disconnect between what voters are saying in polls versus what the Government is actually doing.
New Zealand’s rivers and lakes are under increasing pressure, according to the latest national report from the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ about the state of freshwater.
bFM’s Harry Willis speaks to Forest and Bird’s, Annabeth Cohen about the report, the problems with the way data was presented, and how the report is shifting our focus from Agricultural to urban land although urban environments make up at 1% of land use and pastoral use is at 40%.
The chair of the Blue Greens Committee, Andrew Bayly, wraps up our week of election coverage interviews on the environmental issues facing New Zealand. Kelly asked Andrew about the freshwater policies National has announced to make a wider amount of New Zealand rivers and lakes swimmable again. They also chatted about climate change and National's commitment to the Paris agreement.
Dr. Marama's taking a look at New Zealand's freshwater landscapes - rivers, lakes, wetlands - and is finding their intrinsic values are not only not being utilised to the best of their abilities by communities, but they're under ever-increasing threat. As our freshwater spaces are impacted by species loss, pollution, introduced predators... how do we create a future in which we regenerate and enhance such spaces?
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