Today on your bFM Breakfast: A lot of climate change related music, topical for this beautiful morning in Tāmaki Makaurau; Dr. Kirsten Zemke is swayed by British Lovers Rock; and Johanna comes in with three apocalyptic theatre suggestions. And Mikey reckons you should get your dancing shoes on to have a good weekend. Hot tips.
A report by Amnesty International suggests that the US-led coalition against ISIS may have committed war crimes during the offensive to take back the city of Raqqa in Syria.
Reuben McLaren speaks to Amnesty International NZ Chief Executive Tony Blackett about the report.
Yesterday, the government made the announcement that social services and community groups will get $27 million to continue providing services as New Zealand begins its lockdown, or rāhui.
Up to $16 million will go to supporting people at risk through uncertain circumstances and respond to increased demand. $6 million will go to disability community participation providers and $4.8 million to community-led solutions to support local resilience.
One such solution is coming out of the University of Otago; hand sanitiser produced in-house and in record time by the School of Pharmacy's senior lecturer and his team of research students.
I spoke with Dr. Shyamal Das, the senior lecturer behind the initiative. He specialises in respiratory drug delivery around lung diseases & infections, & hopes to continue his work & help out in this pandemic...
Korehāhā Whakahau is an iwi led project which seeks to eradicate possums from 4700 hectare within the Ngāti Awa rohe over a five-year period. This project is supported by Predator Free 2050 Ltd which is a Crown-owned, charitable company established to help deliver the New Zealand government’s ambitious goal of eradicating possums, stoats and rats by 2050.
News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Karla Akuhata, the Communications and Engagement Advisor for Korehāhā Whakahau,about what the Korehāhā Whakahau project entails. They also discuss the group's planned wānanga that aims to amplify the voice, role and leadership of Mana Whenua in the work being done towards a predator free Aotearoa.
Please check out Predator Free 2050 Ltd to see what opportunities are out there to help New Zealand meet the government's predator free goals.
An independent Māori-led research team has been awarded $1.5M by the Ministry of Health and Health Research Council of New Zealand to track the implementation and progress of the government’s Whakamaua Māori Health Action Plan 2020–2025.
In addition to the Ministry of Health’s internal evaluation of the plan, the research team’s assessment will directly inform implementation, progress, and direction of Whakamaua from now through to 2025, and identify gaps that need to be filled along the way.
Joe spoke to one of the project’s co-lead researchers, Dr Lis Ellison-Loschmann, on the matter
Recently, new NIWA-led research has shown that Aotearoa’s native forest’s are absorbing substantially more carbon dioxide than previously thought.
This has raised concerns that the government is not doing enough to regulate pests that are harming native forest carbon sinks.
News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the Northland Regional Manager for Forest and Bird, Dean Baigent-Mercer, about this, and what the government is doing regarding these concerns.
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