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BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground
A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock
Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed
https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
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For the past week four of us from #LincolnUniversityNZ were based at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, NZ. We visited a set of monitoring sites in and out of the predator control area of the Predator Free Banks Peninsula project. Predator Free Banks Peninsula is primarily targetting brush-tailed possums at the moment and we're interested in how that is affecting birds, lizards, and invertebrates.
We've been doing this for several years so we're also interested in what the general trends are in these animals in this amazing landscape.
We counted, weighed, and photographed all the lizards in our lizard shelters (mostly geckos). Jennifer Gillette is using the unique patterns on geckos' backs and irises to track individuals over the years.
We also brought in our audio recorders, which monitored birds and, optimistically, bats. Bats haven't officially been detected on Banks Peninsula in decades. There's still hope so we put out bat recorders in several of the areas of oldest forest.
We also brought in our invertebrate pitfall traps.
We've got three more days on the Peninsula this coming week, then we can get stuck into identifying the specimens, processing the data, and finding our what the patterns and trends are.
#ecology #fieldwork #EcologicalMonitoring #BanksPeninsula #NZ
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BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground
A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock
Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed
https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
For the past week four of us from #LincolnUniversityNZ were based at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, NZ. We visited a set of monitoring sites in and out of the predator control area of the Predator Free Banks Peninsula project. Predator Free Banks Peninsula is primarily targetting brush-tailed possums at the moment and we're interested in how that is affecting birds, lizards, and invertebrates.
We've been doing this for several years so we're also interested in what the general trends are in these animals in this amazing landscape.
We counted, weighed, and photographed all the lizards in our lizard shelters (mostly geckos). Jennifer Gillette is using the unique patterns on geckos' backs and irises to track individuals over the years.
We also brought in our audio recorders, which monitored birds and, optimistically, bats. Bats haven't officially been detected on Banks Peninsula in decades. There's still hope so we put out bat recorders in several of the areas of oldest forest.
We also brought in our invertebrate pitfall traps.
We've got three more days on the Peninsula this coming week, then we can get stuck into identifying the specimens, processing the data, and finding our what the patterns and trends are.
#ecology #fieldwork #EcologicalMonitoring #BanksPeninsula #NZ
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Furious that European forces have arrived in Greenland, Donald Trump now adds another 10 percent tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland, and threatens to raise it to 25 percent by June.
That is a 25 percent increase to all Americans dependant on European medicine.
He is steering directly towards a total trade war. Follow the US stock market closely, because this can go completely haywire.
Source: Truth Social.
Angela Antunovic
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Fruits of love … a male kākāpō sitting on a tree on Codfish Island in New Zealand. The world’s heaviest parrots started breeding last week for the first time in four years, giving hope of a big boost to the small population. The native rimu trees are producing a bumper crop of berries, the kākāpō’s main food, which conservationists hope will lead to a record number of chicks for the critically endangered bird.
Fruits of love … a male kākāpō sitting on a tree on Codfish Island in New Zealand. The world’s heaviest parrots started breeding last week for the first time in four years, giving hope of a big boost to the small population. The native rimu trees are producing a bumper crop of berries, the kākāpō’s main food, which conservationists hope will lead to a record number of chicks for the critically endangered bird.
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#NZ #Privacy Petition, following on from #ManageMyHealth breach
There's a new petition on the NZ Parliament site, to 'Strengthen enforcement powers and penalties under the Privacy Act 2020' - https://petitions.parliament.nz/88fd4852-1539-419c-af36-08de4ca872ae?lang=en.
It was initiated by Katja Feldtmann, who spoke to RNZ about it -https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/584086/cyber-security-expert-launches-petition-to-parliament-calling-for-harsher-penalties-for-privacy-breaches.
#NZ #Privacy Petition, following on from #ManageMyHealth breach
There's a new petition on the NZ Parliament site, to 'Strengthen enforcement powers and penalties under the Privacy Act 2020' - https://petitions.parliament.nz/88fd4852-1539-419c-af36-08de4ca872ae?lang=en.
It was initiated by Katja Feldtmann, who spoke to RNZ about it -https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/584086/cyber-security-expert-launches-petition-to-parliament-calling-for-harsher-penalties-for-privacy-breaches.
Booking flight to #NZ — after a decade of prodding and cajoling and outright pressure, my parents are finally selling up the house.
Mum turns 90, and can’t see properly at all, Dad has a pacemaker, they are way past the point where living alone is safe for either of them.
Big changes afoot. I just wish I had more time for this trip. I expect to spend most of it with moving boxes and cleanup.
Angela Antunovic
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The #tūī is a distinctively iridescent medium-sized bird endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. they are one of two living members of the honeyeater family found in aoteroa, the other being the less vividly colored korimako. while at first glance the tūī seems to be black overall with small white patches of coloration, in the light it can be seen that the bird is almost entirely iridescent, with vivid green and purples visible in sunlight.
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The #tūī is a distinctively iridescent medium-sized bird endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. they are one of two living members of the honeyeater family found in aoteroa, the other being the less vividly colored korimako. while at first glance the tūī seems to be black overall with small white patches of coloration, in the light it can be seen that the bird is almost entirely iridescent, with vivid green and purples visible in sunlight.
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Yesterday I was at The Art of Banksy exhibition in central Christchurch, NZ, "the world's largest exhibition of Banksy art". It was pretty great. There were photos and prints of the stencilled images that Banksy has sprayed on walls about the world, with lots of cutting, insightful commentary on how messed up our world is.
Then, today, I was out on the streets of Christchurch and I saw a message someone had written in chalk on the footpath (sidewalk): "I LOVE BEANS".
Fair enough. For all of society's faults, beans are good.
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I made a timelapse of the Australian wildfire smoke tinting the skies brown over New Zealand's Southern Alps. This was yesterday evening from the Cashmere hills in Christchurch city.
Yesterday I was at The Art of Banksy exhibition in central Christchurch, NZ, "the world's largest exhibition of Banksy art". It was pretty great. There were photos and prints of the stencilled images that Banksy has sprayed on walls about the world, with lots of cutting, insightful commentary on how messed up our world is.
Then, today, I was out on the streets of Christchurch and I saw a message someone had written in chalk on the footpath (sidewalk): "I LOVE BEANS".
Fair enough. For all of society's faults, beans are good.
🙂
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I made a timelapse of the Australian wildfire smoke tinting the skies brown over New Zealand's Southern Alps. This was yesterday evening from the Cashmere hills in Christchurch city.
Angela Antunovic
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Here's why we need cameras on ALL commercial fishing vessels.
Fisheries NZ investigating report of illegal fish dumping https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/583307/fisheries-nz-investigating-report-of-illegal-fish-dumping
#NZOverFishing #nzpol #oceans #fish #fishing #conservation #nz #newzealand