The silly season is approaching and Ange just wants you to look after yourself, okay? Micro-breaks, deep breathing, echinacea, herbal tea... employ the good stuff wherever you can and don't let the hubbub break your stride.
It is a fact that what makes Aotearoa New Zealand an amazing place to live is nature. Our export industries are built off the idea of a ‘clean, green New Zealand’, attracting tourists and food exports.
Greenpeace’s Executive Director Russel Norman claims that “Luxon’s relentless War on Nature burns the natural capital of Aotearoa for short term GDP growth.”
He has called it a ‘war on nature’, and says that the clean-up costs of a coal mine are greater than a full year of royalties that coal companies pay to the government.
Sasha spoke in depth about Christoper Luxon’s continued ‘war on nature’ with Russel, further speaking on international implications.
Professor Xiaoqi Feng from The University of New South Wales has been looking into over 90 studies into nature prescriptions and wants to see them brought to Australia and New Zealand. They’re already in use in Canada, the US and the Uk and thinks is about time we join in. The evidence indicates contact with prescribed nature is associated with good social, mental, and physical health.
Otago's Penguin Place is a conservation reserve and rehabilitation facility to help save Hoiho penguins from extinction.
Previously self-funded through tourism before the pandemic, the Penguin refuge is one of the projects being supported through the Government's Jobs for Nature funding.
Jessica Hopkins spoke to Rehab Manager Jason, who says this funding will allow them to continue providing crucial rehabilitation care for sick, starving or wounded penguins as well as habitat restoration, predator control, and research.
Natural Ange comes in to give you the lowdown on how to cope with seasonal changes and other wellbeing woes, such from asthma support on top of your pharmaceutical needs, to chapped skin from the biting cold. Whakarongo mai nei!
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