Environment
Our dirty harbours
Wednesday May 13, 2020Volunteers have collected nearly a quarter-tonne of garbage from Avarua harbour.
Conservation calls branch out
Tuesday May 12, 2020There is new opposition to big, old trees being cut down or pruned so brutally that they die.
Alanna Smith : First, catch your Red wrigglers …
Saturday May 09, 2020OPINION: The interest in home gardening has taken off around the island thanks to the Ministry of Agriculture’s recent home gardening packages.
Ani O’Neill: Our little island must quit smoking
Saturday May 02, 2020OPINION: Personally, I am so over burning. This week has been especially bad in our village, as we prepared for tutaka by cleaning our homes and surroundings to help stop the dengue outbreak in Rarotonga.
Cleaning up while reducing waste
Monday April 27, 2020A local company selling eco-friendly cleaning products has started an initiative to minimise plastic waste being sent to the Arorangi landfill.
Kate McKessar: Discovering your inner self-isolation bird identity
Saturday April 11, 2020OPINION: The birds of Cook Islands appear to have developed some interesting self-isolation characteristics during the Covid-19 Code Yellow phase, writes Kate McKessar of Te Ipukarea Society. Which do you resemble?
Tempting fate on our storm-prone coastlines
Saturday January 18, 2020Howard Henry says we are building a rod for our own backs with intensive development causing coastal erosion – making us ever more vulnerable to storms.
From world stage - to tiny Ma'uke
Tuesday January 07, 2020From Kuala Lumpur with President Barack Obama, to Ma’uke with her family, environmental leader Jackie Rongo has certainly been getting around lately.
Families urged to consider environment-friendly alternatives over Christmas
Monday December 23, 2019Cook Island’s Conservation group, Te Ipukarea Society is urging families to rethink their consumption of plastic products over the summer period.
