The Auckland Council is reviewing the Regional Parks Management that contains all the visions, policies and rules for the Waitakere Ranges Regional Parkland. Sandra Coney chaired the existing management plan  [ Read More ]

News today that two bodies have been found in the sea at North Piha and on the West Coast https://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=12264541&ref=twitter

Piha’s Pat La Roche was recently awarded a Pingao & Toheroa Award for her work on coastal environmental conservation. This was awarded as a lifetime achievement by the Coastal Environment  [ Read More ]

Auckland Council is consulting on reports that seek to address flooding in Glen Esk Road. A public meeting to discuss these will be held at Barnett Hall, North Piha, Sunday  [ Read More ]

A fire at Tunnel Point, Karekare, was put out by 9 pm with the use of a portable floating pump. Fire crews attended from Waiatarua, Karekare and Piha. https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/109827571/firefighters-having-difficulty-locating-blaze-in-aucklands-waitkere-ranges 9  [ Read More ]

Pest Free Piha is a new initiative to get Piha pest free by 2025. That means no animal pests – rats, possums, stoats, pigs – and no plant pests. The  [ Read More ]

The “Friends of the Forest” exhibition of photographs by Piha-based photographer Heidi Padain opened last night at Arataki Visitor Centre (16 February 2018). A good crowd of lovers of the  [ Read More ]

Three measures that will strengthen efforts to save kauri trees from dieback disease were agreed by the Kauri Dieback Governance Group when they met yesterday (29 January 2018). It was  [ Read More ]

Dotterel on North Piha beach – note tyre marks, another hazard Today (22 January) Ben Paris of Auckland Council biodiversity team was interviewed on Radio NZ about the recent attrack  [ Read More ]

On 5 December Te Kawerau a Maki attended a meeting of the Auckland Council Environment and Community Committee to inform the committee it had placed a rahui over the Waitakere  [ Read More ]