Environment
Games training squad in sprints
Wednesday 16 March 2011 | Published in Environment
This Saturday’s oe vaka sprint races will see paddlers battling it out on Muri lagoon in the V6 canoes over the course distances of 1000m and 1500m. At the weekend races were over 50m in the V6 division with some great results seen overall. A small but enthusiastic group of paddlers enjoyed the day’s racing […]
Library and museum goes solar
Friday 11 March 2011 | Published in Environment
The Cook Islands Library and Museum Society has gone solar thanks to the German Embassy in Wellington. The embassy donated $8573 for solar panels for the roof of the library and museum in September last year and last month six solar panels were installed. The $700 monthly power bill for the library and museum was […]
Women explain carbon emission effects
Thursday 10 March 2011 | Published in Environment
Even if developed countries adhere to pledges to reduce carbon emissions, global temperatures will rise by 3.2 degrees, says Myra Patai, who headed the Cook Islands delegation to the COP16 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) in Cancun last year. While the world is pressuring developed countries like the US, the EU, Japan, Canada, Australia and […]
Call for 'bold action' on climate change
Wednesday 9 March 2011 | Published in Environment
Climate change adaption advocates are pushing for a new unit to be established within the Office of the Prime Minister, as a central entity to manage climate change functions for the Cook Islands. It is envisiged the unit will primarily coordinate and integrate existing climate change-related bodies and individuals within the Cook Islands government as […]
'Leave Maina Iti alone'
Friday 4 March 2011 | Published in Environment
An Aitutaki lagoon tours operator is accusing one of the islands’ most entrepreneurial families of causing irreparable damage to Maina Iti – a naturally occurring sand-cay. For some years Andrew Katu has been operating his lagoon tours and he’s not happy that the Henry family is using Main Iti as a recreational area. It took […]
Harbour spoil headed to Panama
Thursday 3 March 2011 | Published in Environment
Members of the public have until March 30 to endorse or object to the proposed Ports Authority project to store spoil dredged from the Avatiu harbour at an abandoned Panama dump site. The National Environment Service (NES) this week made public its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report, drawn up in response to a Ports Authority […]
Alternative farming methods advocated
Thursday 3 March 2011 | Published in Environment
Climate change is already affecting Cook Islands agriculture, according to grower Teava Iro. The affect of climate change on agricultural practices and production was discussed during the first day of the week-long workshop being held in Rarotonga. The National Adaption Planning Week began when local issues to do with prolonged weather pattern changes and adaption […]
Bonefishery requires 'conversion'
Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Environment
The Ministry of Marine Resources is happy its new bonefish management plan, which includes the Aitutaki lagoon, is being supported by most within the island’s community. MMR secretary Ben Ponia says a few locals remain opposed to the regulations, which were formally adopted in October and will start to be enforced at the beginning of […]
Fancy gear for lagoon tests
Wednesday 23 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Muri lagoon will host some magnificent machines and expensive equipment in its waters over the next 40 days. SOPAC, the Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific, is lending the gear to the Cook Islands as part of the Muri Water and Sanitation Project – a water quality monitoring programme that […]
Scientists testing lagoon quality
Thursday 17 February 2011 | Published in Environment
The curious white poles planted in the Ngatangiia lagoon this week do indeed serve a purpose. A team of researchers from Southern Cross University, the University of Texas, the Ministry of Marine Resources and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning is testing lagoon and inland areas to get a clearer picture of the nutrient makeup […]
Kids raise water and sanitation awareness
Thursday 17 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Vaka Takitumu school pupils have until this Friday to complete their various projects as part of the education awareness competition organised by the Muri Environment Care Group in conjunction with the European Union Muri Water and Sanitation Project. Students have been researching, writing and creating posters under the water and sanitation topic with the view […]
Nominations for RIEA due today
Tuesday 8 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Nominations for members of the Rarotonga Island Environment Authority close today at midday. The Rarotonga Island Environment Authority is a body which determines applications for permits and makes decisions pertaining to Environmental Impact Assessments. It also approves policies and work programmes to be adopted by National Environment Service (NES). The Rarotonga Island Environment Authority consists […]
Rethink Raui policies
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Dear Editor, This letter is to support the disappointed Raui supporters that witnessed a total rape and pillage of the Raui in Mauke. I am always a believer in our Raui system but not the Rauis that are temporarily put in place and then harvested. A Raui should be there to sustain on going marine, […]
YWAM cleaning up
Friday 4 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Cook Islands is embarking on a mission to clean up Rarotonga whilst spreading the gospel, YWAM administrator Martha Ene said. YWAM staff has already started picking up rubbish and cleaning the beaches, and have submitted an application to National Environment Services (NES) for a permit to clear drainage ditches of […]
Dorrell lays out the facts
Thursday 3 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Coastal Environmental International Ltd managing director Don Dorrell believes that before the community enters into a debate about the cultural, economic and environmental significance of the pa – fish traps – built on the reef, those on both sides of the fence should consider the facts. In recent months segments of the community have pointed […]
Arorangi jetty benefit highlighted
Wednesday 2 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Yesterday’s unfavourable sea conditions off Avarua provided an opportunity to highlight the benefit of the proposed alternative Arorangi cruise ship jetty. The Paul Gauguin cruise ship was unable to disembark its 350 passengers at the Avatiu harbour yesterday due to 20 knot northeasterly winds. Instead the ship’s captain was asked to sail the Paul Gauguin […]
400 paua killed as Mauke raui fails
Tuesday 1 February 2011 | Published in Environment
The mass killing of hundreds of young paua on Mauke island will lead to a review of the raui there. In 2008 a raui was put in place on the island from Patito to Anaio, a half kilometre stretch of lagoon which includes one of Mauke’s noted tourist attractions, a salt water swimming cave known […]
It's World Wetlands Day tomorrow
Tuesday 1 February 2011 | Published in Environment
Wednesday February 2 is World Wetlands Day. The day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar. The National Environment Services has dubbed 2011 the Year of the Wetlands and will throughout the year undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of […]
New climate change job created at USP
Thursday 27 January 2011 | Published in Environment
USP is advertising a new position at its Cook Islands campus – an in-country project coordinator to implement and oversee climate change directives. The coordinator will be part of USP’s recently approved climate change project, which is funded by the European Union and directed by the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD). The […]
Muri volunteers clean up
Thursday 20 January 2011 | Published in Environment
Over 40 Muri residents armed with rakes, gloves and rubbish bags took to the beaches in Ngatangiia to clean up the mess left behind by beach goers during the festive season. The clean up began at the Nukupure Park and sports grounds where organic rubbish was raked up and removed from the beach along with […]
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