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Meet the locals ALWAYS WEAR YOUR LIFE JACKET! Canterbury is home to about 9% of the total boating population of New Zealand. That’s around 110,000 boaties (and approximately 31,680 powerboats). New Navigation Safety Bylaw is there to keep all these locals safe – see www.ecan.govt.nz/navsafety. Jim Dilley is the Harbourmaster for Canterbury. Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s Jim used to visit Lyttelton on container ships before finishing up his career at sea and moving to New Zealand permanently. Jim says Lyttelton’s one of his favourite places in the world, a gritty community where a spade is a spade and the people take you at face value. Digital connectivity In December 2015 Spark NZ partnered with the Canterbury Mayoral Forum and announced that it would bring forward its roll out of 4G fast mobile broadband, to be completed by December 2016. Spark NZ prioritised $14million of investment into Canterbury and only mother nature could prevent them from reaching their target, with just the Hundalee site being incomplete due to the November 2016 earthquake breaking a guy wire on the mast. Spark also went over and above the project specs by putting in additional sites coverage and additional capacity. Thank you Makarini Rupene grew up in the Tuahiwi pa and Kaiapoi, brought up hunting, fishing and gathering mahinga kai/ natural recourses with his whanau and elders. This childhood taught Makarini the importance of the environment and its living ecosystems. Makarini is now working for Environment Canterbury as a Parks Ranger working on our rivers and the coastline cleaning up or re-establishing native areas to enhance wetlands and ecosystems, and upholding the bylaws in the parks. Makarini also represents his Rūnanga on a Canterbury Water Management committee. As you can see from this picture, Makarini has also been involved with the Port Hills fire fighting efforts. Above: Community members got together on February 28 to rescue īnaka (whitebait) and tuna (eels) from the drying Waikirikiri/Selwyn River near Coes Ford. About 2,500 īnaka and 300 tuna were relocated to Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere.
Connect with us 2017/18 Annual Plan – have your say It is that time of year when all the councils, including Environment Canterbury, will be asking the community for feedback on their Annual Plan for the coming financial year (2017/18). Environment Canterbury invites you to give feedback on activity proposed across the region outlined in our draft Annual Plan. Your local city or district council will also be asking you for feedback on its Annual Plan. While Environment Canterbury works closely with city and district councils, we have different roles so it’s important to engage in both processes if you want to have a say. For the Environment Canterbury plan: • Visit www.ecan.govt.nz, view the short summary document and/or the full draft 2017/18 Annual Plan and use the online form to send your feedback in • Email ecinfo@ecan.govt.nz to arrange a time to talk to Councillors in May if you wish. Please note, the closing date for feedback or to request a time to meet with Councillors is 5pm on Friday 21 April. P hoto comp etition winner Some fabulous images of this beautiful region were submitted to the photo competition run in the last issue of Living Here. Thank you to all those who shared them. The winner of the Fitbit Alta Fitness Wristband is Cindy Merritt of Christchurch, who took this picture on a walk around Purau Bay. Join the conversation with Environment Canterbury. Follow activity, post comments or contact our Customer Services team. ecan.govt.nz. 0800 EC INFO or 0800 324 636
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