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Boaties caught red-handed: Police seized 21 Packhorse Crayfish, some undersized, from an 8.8m vessel off Great Barrier Island. Photo / NZ Police

Community News

Barrier Considers Rules to Shut Out Crayfishers

Great Barrier is weighing new local protections that would stop boats from Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf shifting to Aotea to target crayfish, after the Government closed mainland waters in April. A ban running from Cape Rodney to Kawakawa Bay…

Hunter Edwards hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. The young kickboxer grew up on Great Barrier and is now carving out a name for himself in the K-1 scene with Balmoral Lee Gar in Auckland.

Community News

Barrier boy Hunter Edwards set for the big stage at Unbroken 4

Hunter Edwards hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. The young kickboxer grew up on Great Barrier and is now carving out a name for himself in the K-1 scene with Balmoral Lee Gar in Auckland. On Saturday, August 23, he’ll…

Decisions from a Distance: Auckland Council Headquarters, 90 Kilometers Away from Aotea. Photo / NZME

Property

Council offers webinar to explain ‘brutal’ rates hikes

Auckland Council is offering residents the chance to hear directly from its finance team about how rates are set, following frustration over sharp increases in areas like Great Barrier Island, Rodney, and Franklin. It comes after many Barrier homeowners were…

A native New Zealand bee (probably Leioproctus sp.) visits a manuka flower (Leptospermum scoparium). Photo taken on Tiritiri Matangi Island.

Aotea Green

Mānuka Honey: What Is It Good For? Absolutely Something.

Photo / CC / Avenue

An adult black petrel cruises over the waters of the Hauraki Gulf. Photo / Dan Burgin / WMIL

Thirty Years on Hirakimata: What We’ve Learned About the Black Petrel

A new report released this month marks 30 years of black petrel monitoring on Great Barrier Island, the only place in the world — along with Little Barrier — where the seabird breeds, revealing a population holding steady but still…

Community News

Island Gin up for People’s Choice at Business Awards

Island Gin, the boutique distillery run entirely off-grid on Aotea (Great Barrier Island), has been named a finalist in the People’s Choice category of the Auckland Business Awards. Voting is now open to the public. Founded by Andi Ross, Island…

Ecology - Aotea Green

Sleepy birds, quiet dawns: how noisy, bright city nights disrupt and change birdsong

Photo / Juli Gaviraghi Mussoi, CC BY-NC-ND

Culture - Aotea Green

Why has trust in news fallen? The answer is more complicated than we thought

By Greg Treadwell, Auckland University of Technology and Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police have all suffered over the past…

Chatham Islands. Photo / Flickr / Ville Miettinen

Ecology - Aotea Green

How the discovery of an extinct shelduck highlights the rich ancient biodiversity of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu)

Photo / Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa , CC BY-ND

Tech - Aotea Green

Volkswagen to charge to unlock your own EV’s power

Volkswagen has sunk to a new low. The once-mighty carmaker, now battered by collapsing profits, soaring energy costs and a string of flopped electric models, has hatched a new plan, to start making drivers pay for the power already sitting…