On the Green Desk for this week, Jack Marshall speaks to the Department of Conservation's Chief Science Advisor Mike Bunce about the role that new and developing technologies have in solving Aotearoa’s biodiversity threats.
Researchers investigating data from commercial fishing vessels have found that bottom trawling activity increases sharply near newly established marine protected areas. The Green Desk's Jack Marshall spoke with Tai Lohrer about his research into the protected areas to find out why.
A world-first holistic framework for assessing the mental and psychological wellbeing of wild animals has been developed by Dr Andrea Harvey, a veterinarian and animal welfare scientist from the University of Technology Sydney. The Green Desk's Jack Marshall spoke with Dr Harvey about how this study could potentially revolutionise conservation efforts.
On the Green Desk Jack Marshall speaks to Amanda Thomas, lecturer in environmental studies at the University of Wellington about stopping oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa.
On the Green Desk, Jack Marshall speaks to Remy Lasseur from AgResearch about VR technology that could help farmers determine where and what trees they should plant.
This week on The Green Desk reporter Jack Marshall speaks with researcher Ella McCallum about her research into the toutouwai, the north island robbin.
Things got shitty on the Green Desk today — New Zealand has a poo problem: An estimated 100 million tonnes of cow and sheep manure fall onto New Zealand pastures each year, causing an environmental and economic stink.
So reporter Jack Marshall went to see a man about dung beetles. Dung Beetle Innovations’s Dr. Shaun Forgie is a specialist in dung beetle reproduction, ecology and evolution. And if he has his way, every farm in New Zealand will have these bugs following around their animals.
Today in Glen Innes a protest will take place in support of Niki Rauti. She is a Tamaki Housing Association tenant who is facing eviction from her home which has been sold to developers. Tamaki Redevelopment Company are removing state housing in the area and building a mixture of social, affordable and private housing in their place. Her supporters say that evicting tenants and redeveloping the land is about making money. Reporter Sam Smith spoke to one of the protest organisers Lisa.
Andrew Little has announced a new policy that would increase funding to social housing through winter. This increase is intended to target those households with children which have previously been growing up in cold, damp home environments, leading to sickness and further issues. Producer Will spoke to Frank Hogan, the housing issues spokesperson for Child Poverty Action group, asking him what effect poor housing standards have on children.
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