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  • Access
    • "Stuff" article: Access dispute ties up subdivision
    • Goat Island / Kumi Point day tramp
    • Letter outlines plans for sandspit
    • Ngunguru hapu says no sweeteners from developer
    • Ngunguru track forms another link in Cape Reinga-Bluff trail
    • Proposed Vehicles on Beaches Bylaw
    • Sandspit
    • Sandspit subdivision proposal exposed
    • Seabed act 'needs weeding'
  • Agencies
    • EDS Boosts Ngunguru Sandspit Development Defence
    • EDS proposes a New Zealand Coastal Commission
    • Kaitiaki of Aotearoa stand up to be counted - on Maori Television
    • New Zealand Coastal Trust
    • Ngunguru Development
    • Ngunguru Sandspit
    • Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector
    • Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
    • Surfbreak Protection Launches New Website
    • TCR&R website launched / pledges to purchase sandspit
    • The Charture Institute - our work
    • Welcome to SeaNet
  • Climate Change
    • Beach properties facing a future without insurance
    • Civic heads run hot and cold
    • Climate change report: Act now, or face flood and fire
    • Climate change set to erode house values
    • Climate change: key role for councils
    • Climate expert to give views
    • Climate report fuels row
    • Coast buyers unfazed, says Tutukaka agent
    • Coastal erosion
    • Coastal Hazards and Climate Change
    • Coastal homes may miss out on insurance
    • Don't panic over insurance, coast property owners told
    • EDITORIAL - It's time to face climate challenge
    • Flood liability worry for Far North District Council
    • High-rise homes to beat big tides
    • Insurance And Natural Disaster
    • IPCC Report Puts Pressure On Local Government
    • Mixed forecast for NZ from climate change
    • Preparation For Climate Change In NZ
    • Preparing for coastal change
    • Proposal to buy flood-prone homes at Kaeo
    • Rising sea factor in Landco plan
    • Sand dunes valuable in time of changing climate
    • Towns repeatedly hit by extreme weather may have to move - PM
    • Two Degrees Of Separation
  • District and Regional Plans
    • EDS Welcomes Decision In "Blank Pages" Case
    • Feedback on the Coastal Management Strategy Structure Plans
    • Ngunguru Structure Plan - final recommendations adopted
    • Ngunguru Structure Plans
    • Our submission to the NRC draft annual plan, 2008-09
    • Plan Change 116: Coastal Policy Areas - CPA 4 - Ngunguru Area
    • Plan Change 92
    • Plan Change 95: Coastal Countryside Environment Review
    • Proposed District Plan - Subdivisions
    • River control included in regional plan
    • Sustainable Futures 30/50 - community consultation
    • The return of the Coastal Structure Plan?
    • Time running out to comment on draft NRC plan
  • Documents
    • Archive of documents
    • Independent Review of the NZ Coastal Policy Statement
    • Lifestyle sub-divisions in rural areas
    • Ngunguru Sandspit: Values, Community and Property...
    • The Ngunguru Sandspit Newsletter No. 1
    • The Ngunguru Sandspit Newsletter No. 2
    • Turning the Tide
  • Earthworks
    • A road across Whakairiora
    • Aerial photos of the Landco earthworks
    • Bulldozers Move In Next To Ngunguru Spit
    • It's official: LandCo is in breach of its conditions
    • Keeping Landco honest?
    • Or it could be ...a road
    • Photos of the Landco earthworks
  • Ecology
    • Auditing Assessments of Environmental Effects: A Good Practice Guide
    • Beaches polluted... but the public has not been notified
    • Birds of Pimanu
    • Councils to develop system on water quality warnings
    • Don't squash the katipo - or you'll be off to prison
    • Edge of the Land - A New Vision
    • Exotic pine trees threaten rural landscape
    • How do LandCo's claims stack up? (Custodianship)
    • In an octopus's garden
    • Katipo Spider Research Project
    • Keen interest in release of kiwi
    • Marine Resources in Tai Tokerau
    • Ngunguru Sandspit
    • Ngunguru subdivision draws flak
    • Pets v kiwi impact
    • Pimanu : gull's cry
    • Plants and animals of the sandspit and Whakairiora
    • Snails' place
    • SOS for Ngunguru Sandspit
    • TOP DOCTOR: We're crapping in our own food basket
    • Valuable trees to be spared in spit development
    • Vehicles off beaches
    • Whangarei Drains-to-Harbour stormwater programme
  • Economic benefits
    • Address to the Conservation Estate Symposium
    • Exerpts from the "Corpus Callosum" column
    • History package aims to attract
    • Minerva plan picks up steam
    • Pataua North: Eco-retreat is natural flight of fancy
    • Refit steams ahead
    • Renamed Sandspit now under Schedule 4 protection
    • Tahi Beach Resort
    • Waterway revisited
  • Environmental Planning
    • The Growing Need for Coastal Expertise
    • 'Special protection' for land angrily rejected
    • 2010 promises yet more controversy
    • A back door approach to tougher landscape rules
    • A letter to the Minister for the Environment
    • A Place to Stand
    • Coastal gems urgently need greater protection
    • Coastal Governance
    • Coastal Governance
    • Coastal management - Raewyn Peart
    • Coastal Policy Issues Backgrounder
    • Coastal rifts
    • Council 'land grab'
    • Council rethinks controversial landscape review
    • Defining the Nature of Our Coastal Communities
    • Drawing a line in the sand
    • Drawing a line in the sand
    • EDS Congratulates National Party on election win
    • Efforts must go on to secure Sandspit
    • Environmental Defence Society: A Place to Stand
    • Frank Newman's "Facts about the landscape Review 2005"
    • Frank Newman's column, "The Property Investor"
    • Frank Newman: Activists on Council Payroll
    • Frequently Asked Landscape Questions
    • Govt accused of burying coast report
    • Ideas: Sustainability
    • In the 1960s, we thought Whangarei might look like this ...
    • Janet Stephenson - landscape and identity
    • Landscape Planning Guide for Peri-Urban and Rural Areas
    • Landscape Review meeting in Ngunguru
    • Listener cover story: Fight for the beaches
    • Managing change in paradise
    • Media Release: Landscape Review Decision by WDC
    • Minister rejects calls for Coastal Commission watchdog
    • Minister rejects land-swap plan
    • More on the landscape review project
    • MP: Loosen building laws
    • New outlook on landscapes
    • New Zealand Planning Institute on coastal issues
    • Newman aims to sink landscape review project
    • Off to Resorts, and Carrying Their Careers
    • Our submission on the NZ Coastal Policy Statement 2008
    • Our submission to WDC's Sustainable Futures 30/50
    • Peart combines history and campaign future...
    • Property rights 'at risk'
    • Public to have say on coastal guide
    • Raewyn Peart
    • Recommended New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement
    • Reform in Paradise Conference
    • Regional flood meetings 'a success'
    • Sandspit must be nurtured on council lines
    • Sandspit weasel words
    • Senior Policy Planner - Coastal
    • Shifting sands
    • Sioux Campbell's editorial
    • Sneaking into paradise
    • Submissions to the plan did make a difference...
    • Superb or suburb?
    • Sustainable Futures 30/50
    • The environment under a National-led government
    • Time to get serious about our coastline
    • Twin-city concept spurned by public
    • WDC urged to rein in landscape review
    • Whangarei District Council's Coastal Management Strategy
    • Zoning review may place further restrictions on landowners
  • Erosion
    • Beach erosion
    • Chocolate rivers, coffee seas
    • Coastal Erosion - shifting sands
    • Erosion-prone land around Ngunguru
    • Rapid shoreline building on a stormy coast
    • Rates of coastal erosion and accretion in New Zealand
    • Sediment seminars aim to better protect water
    • Storm lashing [Gold Coast] coastline
  • General
    • A review of Coastal Focus Magazine and its Landco article
    • Another battle, but what about the coastal war?
    • Archived articles
    • Coastal clean-up on the cards
    • Do you know the night-card man?
    • Ngunguru Sandspit Questionnaire
    • Ngunguru Sandspit Timeline
    • Ngunguru Spit and Whakairiora
    • North's tourism is still booming
    • NSaPS Newsletter - April 2007
    • Spot the real survey
    • The great coastal property con? [Full article]
    • The great coastal sell-off
    • Values of the Ngunguru Sandspit
  • Heritage
    • "A Fatal Sleep"
    • "Shooting affray - a man fires at his sons"
    • "The Maori Superstition in the North"
    • 1980s postcard of Ngunguru
    • A Feasting Ground of the Old Cannibals
    • A Tapu Isle of Birds - Hauturu And Its Inhabitants
    • Castles in the Sand
    • Church services and roads in 1903
    • Early sawmill
    • Extracts from "James Busby, British Resident in New Zealand"
    • Fatal Accident on the Upper Ngunguru, 1892
    • From the sound archives...
    • Google news archives, for historical research
    • Historic Places Trust pamphlet on middens
    • History experts update list of major Whangarei sites
    • James Busby (1801-71)
    • Kiripaka: A Prosperous Venture. 1899
    • Maori Deeds of Land Purchases - Hokopua Block, Ngunguru
    • Mr Busby's claims
    • Ngunguru in the news
    • Old Ngunguru School
    • Photos of the Historical walk
    • Protection sought for archaeological sites
    • Sandspit breach causes 1930 Easter bunny invasion
    • Sandspit summary updated
    • Southern Cross II
    • Ted Ashby - Big Rig of the Gulf
    • The Ngunguru Sandspit and the protection of wahi tapu
    • Township proposed on archaeological site
    • Trail Stories - Kerikeri to Whangarei
    • View of school and beach at Ngunguru (1947)
    • Whangarei District Council's GIS website
    • Wreck of the Melanesian Mission schooner "Southern Cross"
  • Images
    • A cartoon by "Wall"
    • A photo of Whakairiora Mountain from Kiripaka
    • A present-day photo of the sandspit
    • High-res photo of the sandspit
    • Kids at Ngunguru Ford Rd kina tyme
    • Ngunguru - Sea at Twilight and Backcountry
    • Ngunguru Sunset HDR
    • Ngunguru, Omaha and Pauanui juxtaposed
    • Trade Me: Sandspit for sale - starting at $220
    • Useful maps
  • LandCo
    • 'Bad bank' sent another 20 firms to wall
    • 'Dam breach would be catastrophic' (Waihopai Valley)
    • A word with... Kate Sutton
    • Banking fallout hits NZ lender
    • Big wine investor under scrutiny
    • Developer's suburban nightmare
    • Eight neighbouring houses snapped up
    • Greg Olliver battles St Laurence to avoid bankruptcy
    • Investors await decision on HBOS takeover talks after wild ride
    • Kate Sutton
    • Landco cuts staff numbers
    • Landco deciding whether to appeal water-take ruling
    • Landco lenders face nervous wait
    • Landco rejig spells trouble for financiers
    • Leefield winery finances examined
    • Park-sized dam planned for Waihopai
    • Party's over and debts called in for property kings
    • Receivers called on Landco owner
    • Receivers called on Landco owner
    • St Heliers dress circle unravels
    • Todd Capital buys the rest of Landco
    • Todd family turn energies towards wine
    • UK banking buyout raises questions about $3b in NZ
  • LandCo Proposal
    • No date set for Whakareora subdivision appeal
    • Close Up: Sandspit Fight
    • Coastal Focus article - An Intricate Balance - now online
    • Developer faces fight over Sandspit plans
    • EDITORIAL - So many reasons to save sandspit
    • EDS News - Ngunguru Spit
    • Fears mount over prospect of Northland sandspit development
    • From sour grapes to sea grapes
    • Housing estate planned for Ngunguru sandspit
    • How do LandCo's claims stack up? (Conservation reserve)
    • LandCo and the Whangarei District Council
    • LandCo has just started to feature Ngunguru on its website
    • Landco plan a disaster
    • LandCo releases detailed proposal document
    • Landco to push sandspit plan
    • LandCo's new Ngunguru website
    • Landco's proposal for Ngunguru sandspit
    • Letter to the editor, Jan 31, 2006
    • Letter to the editor: Ngunguru development
    • Listener cover story: Fight for the beaches
    • Local voices heard on Ngunguru sandspit future
    • Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) disclosed
    • Ngunguru Development Plans Released
    • Ngunguru group ready for fight
    • Northland... This is your life: 2005
    • Proposed Spit Development
    • Sandspit plan on agendas
    • Sandspit salvo over MOU
    • Scores oppose plans for sandspit village
  • Local Government
    • $2.99m for Albany parkland
    • An idiot's guide to your LTCCP
    • Coastal representation now missing on WDC
    • Court criticises 'crude' district plan
    • Draft Northland Community Plan 2006-2016
    • Ngunguru sandspit now part of Whangarei Heads!
    • NRC to give away aerial, geographic data
    • Our Place Whangarei
    • The price of growth
    • Unitary authorities push driven by self - not public - interest...
    • Whangarei Council Plan
    • Whangarei District Council Media Summary
  • Newspaper
  • Public Ownership
    • ARC registers interest in Stedfast Park, Piha
    • Aspirations for a reserve
    • Checkpoint: Ngunguru Sand Spit
    • Councillor hopes land swap could save Sandspit
    • Developer says it would consider a land swap for Ngunguru spit
    • DoC land swap could keep sandspit public
    • DOC offers to swap own land for sandspit
    • DoC Proposes Land Swap For Sandspit
    • EDS urges caution over sandspit land swap proposal
    • Efforts underway to save Northland sandspit
    • Fair trade or free for all trade
    • Just $5 buys entry to a coastal paradise
    • Local group may put up money for Ngunguru sandspit
    • Mayor says ratepayers can't afford to buy Ngunguru sandspit
    • Minister asks DoC to reopen Ngunguru talks
    • Morning Report: Spit
    • MP Joins Campaign Against Development Of Spit
    • Mystery sandspit meeting
    • Ngunguru Sandspit proposal inconvenient but true
    • Potential for new national park
    • Protection needed for Ngunguru Spit (2002)
    • Sale Of Ngunguru Sandspit Too Pricey For Ratepayers - Mayor
    • Sandspit sale plan hits rocky ground
    • Sandspit swap news to Landco
    • Smith: I'd push for land swap to save spit
    • Spit land swap proposal crawls forward
    • Spit protection options aired
    • This land is your land (2003)
  • Resource Consents
    • 'Fairer, faster' resource consents
    • A hearing by the Whangarei District Council Judicial Committee
    • Decision from Environment Court
    • Environment Court Decision - Subdivisions
    • Frank Newman, on the sandspit
    • Hapu Face Development of Sacred Mountain
    • Northland Subdivision Bar Raised
    • Rules tighten on coastal development
    • When solid ground is shaken to mush
  • RMA
    • Age of consent
    • Community Guide to Coastal Development under the RMA
    • EDS Analysis of Resource Management ... Amendment Bill
    • Environment protection law in need of update
    • Govt does right by the environment with Amendments
    • Major reforms in first 100 days
    • Mayor of flood-hit Far North calls for greater RMA powers
    • Ngunguru Sandspit on hold
    • NZ government announces RMA reforms
    • Our submission to the Resource Management Bill
    • Rod Oram discusses environmental legislation
    • The Community Guide to the RMA 1991 (2nd Edition)
    • The Resource Management Act - Community Guide
    • The Sunday Group: Environmental Reform
  • Storm Surge
    • A 1919 photo of the sandspit
    • Disaster in Durban (storm surge)
    • Pre- and Post-Storm Photo Comparisons - Bolivar Peninsula, TX
    • Sea-wall damaged by July 2007 storm - photos
    • Storm Surge
    • Storm Surge - a concern to coastal residents
    • Storm surge and ponding, July 2007
    • Storm surge in Myanmar
    • Storms tipped for northern NZ
    • Weather bomb hits North Island
    • What a Storm!
  • Todd Property Group
    • Melview loses Flat Bush town centre job
    • Our Projects: Ngunguru
  • Tsunami
    • Civil Defence - Text message alerts
    • How do LandCo's claims stack up? (Tsunami risk)
    • Listener article: "Head for the Hills"
    • Northland port like a 'washing machine'
    • Residents take tsunami warning to heart but money's a problem
    • Ripple system to warn of big wave
    • TerraNature: Asian tsunami prompts reconsideration in NZ
    • The Earthquake commission on Tsunami
    • Tsunami
    • Tsunami creates tidal surge in Tutukaka
    • Tsunami debacle prompts scrutiny
    • Tsunami encourages planning
    • Tsunami Modelling Study 2
    • Tsunami out wave Tutukaka
    • Tsunami plans: The shocking truth
    • Tsunami warning for Northland
    • Tsunami warning prompts concern
    • Tsunami warning sounded
    • Warning to prepare for natural disasters
• Events
  • Public views sought on local flood plans
  • A Walk on the Ngunguru Sandspit
  • A Walk on the Ngunguru Sandspit
  • Annual General Meeting and Election of Committee
  • Save Ngunguru Sandspit Bumper Sticker
  • Local government options for Northland
  • Submit!
  • Photos of "What's at Stake"
  • Letter/email to government ministers
  • Ngunguru Sandspit: What's at stake?
  • Coastal beauty
  • The Sunday Drama: Wheeler's Luck
  • Tee shirt sales
  • AGM, 29 August, Ngunguru Hall
  • Planting Day, 5 September, Shoebridge Reserve
  • Regional flood project meetings under way
  • Public help sought for regional flood project
  • Reform in Paradise: threat or opportunity?
  • Our submissions to the Draft LTCCPs
  • Anzac Day Commemoration
  • Easter Saturday - Matapouri Historically
  • Fundraiser for the Coastguard - Easter Saturday
  • Ngunguru River Estuary Discovery Tour - Easter Monday
  • Effective RM participation for community groups
  • AGM NSaPS 2008 - Chairperson's Report
  • Annual General Meeting, 30 August
  • Hillary Challenge 2008 -- final round 19-23 May
  • Northland Conservation Management Strategy review
  • Our submission to the WDC draft annual plan, 2008-09
  • Guidance on making submissions on the Proposed NZCPS
  • WDC submission by the TCR&R
  • Submission on the proposed Coastal Policy Statement
  • Annual Plan Submissions - one week to go!
  • Submission thoughts on the WDC draft annual plan 2008
  • Submit!
  • "It happened here" - Historical walk on 6 April
  • What is the Hillary Challenge like?
  • Teens exert themselves for sandspit
  • Local Hillary Challenge team supports sandspit
  • Save Ngunguru Sandspit from Landco Development
  • It is a perfect place
  • Summer Events
  • Artist dedicates year to sandspit
  • Launch of Steve Moase Ngunguru Sandspit Print
  • Launch of "The Tranquil Spit Endures"
  • "The Last Resort" - showing on 7 October
  • Online art auction has $23,650 in sales
  • Online Art Auction
  • Ngunguru Sandspit Protection Society
  • Art Auction 25 August to 3 September
  • Ngunguru Sandspit Protest Walkday
  • Walk aims to raise money to fight spit developer
  • Event Finder: Ngunguru Sandspit Sponsored Walk
  • Sandspit tee shirts
  • A Sponsored Walk on the Ngunguru Sandspit
  • DOC Whangarei celebrates Conservation Week...
  • Business cards
  • That great sandspit tee shirt
  • Surfbreak Protection Contest letter
  • Gold medal for protest print
  • Invitation - Environmental concerns meeting
  • Submission to NRC Draft Annual Plan 2007-08
  • Submission by NSaPS to the 2007-08 WDC Draft Annual Plan
  • Submissions to the WDC Draft Annual Plan 2007-2008
  • A Comment on omission and appreciation of friends
  • Goodbye guardians, hello friends
  • EDS Community Seminars
  • Coastal Communities, Natural Disasters
  • Check your details
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Land and Sea report
  • Celebrating Land and Sea
  • New photos of the 2 December rally
  • Ngunguru-Protesting against development of Ngunguru Sandspit
  • Save Our Sandspit - Action Checklist
  • Landco NCAG briefing proposal
  • NCAG proposes stakeholder meeting
  • Salt Air Café fundraiser and promotion
  • $505,000 tipped for 2006 NRC Environment Fund
  • Sample Landscape Review submission
  • Landscape Review Project submissions closing soon
  • EDS: Community workshop in Kerikeri on coastal development
  • Email-writing campaign
  • Ngunguru stories swapped today
  • A wake... or a wake up call...
  • Become a friend and guardian of the Ngunguru Sandspit
  • Archive of events and campaigns
• Other Coastlines
  • Baring Head
    • Baring Head purchased for the public
    • Coastal land comes into public hands
  • Bay of Islands
    • A united front on inlet
    • Aroha access now assured
    • Bay of Islands marked at risk
    • Bid to buy rare Bay jewel
    • Bridgewater hotel proposal dumped (Kerikeri)
    • Court says no to high rise for Ti Beach
    • Developer to fight kerikeri land decision
    • Developers win court battle against council
    • Dove Bay land sale just the 'tip of the iceberg'
    • Environment Court rejects Far North District Council argument
    • High-rise foes delighted
    • Kerikeri looks to localisation
    • Mega complex planned for Kerikeri
    • Renewed call to save the Bay of Islands
    • Threat to natural assets (Kerikeri)
    • Unlikely public will own island
    • Williams Land Feature
    • Work starts on plan for Bay of Islands
  • Bream Bay
    • Bream Bay Coastal Care Trust
    • Bream Head Coast walks
    • Delight as coal plan dumped
    • Development moves to next stage
    • Get vehicles off our beaches!
    • Hanover have pulled out! (Waipu Estuary)
    • Human Chain for conservation week a success
    • Kiteboarders blamed as godwits flee
    • Marina neighbours: It's hell in high water
    • Marsden Bay Community dune planting day
    • North's next city - Welcome to Bream Bay
    • Rangers act on hoons in dunes
    • Real Estate Investment - Hanover, Blue Chip
    • Stance on beach use gets heckled
    • Whangarei: Bream come true
  • Camping Grounds
    • Camping Crisis
    • Camping Grounds Under Threat
    • Coastal - Part 2
    • More land in North could be opened up for camping
    • Northern Advocate article: Save our campgrounds, councillors urge DOC
    • The Kiwi Camping Tradition
    • TV3, Campbell Live: The Kiwi Camping Tradition
  • Clevedon
    • Clevedon Opposition
    • Clevedon ready to fight 297-home canal proposal
    • Developers propose 'maritime village'
  • Coromandel
    • Action needed to protect last deserted beach
    • Coastal development
    • Coastal Land on the Coromandel Peninsula protected
    • Development of 'paradise' beach stirs local fears
    • Environmental vandalism or private rights?
  • Gulf Harbour
    • Marine village has go-ahead
  • Haumoana
    • Beachside properties in Hawke's Bay are battered by waves
    • Shore Thing
  • Long Bay
    • Awareness - the Long Bay documentary
    • Bay's destiny again faces court scrutiny (Long Bay)
    • Buy land to protect park says society
    • Cash shortfall threatens park plan
    • Council backs Long Bay plan in court
    • Court decision protects Long Bay's good looks
    • Court ruling delights Long Bay park group
    • Delay to Long Bay hearing
    • Developer has much bigger, 'refined' plan for Long Bay
    • Developer's plan will harm Long Bay, says council
    • Future of Great Park heads to Environment Court (LandCo)
    • Green Party Applauds Long Bay Regional Park Decision
    • Housing at Long Bay still planned
    • Landco slams Long Bay plans
  • Mahia
    • 'The Last Resort' - News clip on NZ doco
    • 'The Last Resort' trailer. NZ feature doco - 2min
    • Maori protest tapu road at Mahia
  • Marine Farms
    • Watchdog to help protect coastline
  • Matapouri
    • $10m land fight goes to court
    • 'Let courts decide' over Matapouri block dispute
    • Another Judge declares Otito Reserve Court Action:
    • Artists for Otito
    • Bay sand plan condemned
    • Beach safe for use, council assures
    • Coastal land dispute goes to court
    • Conservationists fear for rare dotterel
    • Cottage goes amid reserve legal action
    • Court hearing of land spat in public interest - judge
    • Damage shows up dune plan: Residents
    • Dredging proposal deemed 'appalling' by marine expert
    • Environment Day, Matapouri, 24 October
    • Erosion work continues despite row
    • Lines in the sand at Northland beach
    • Maori group puts up barriers on disputed land
    • Monitoring WDC's Matapouri Beach restoration efforts
    • Otito Reserve update February 2010
    • Sand-shifting project enrages residents
  • Matarangi Beach
    • Is this how the sandspit will end up?
  • Matauri Bay
    • Coastal subdivision an iwi success story
    • Matauri plan stalls amid dissent
    • Mega plan for Matauri Bay
  • Newly Created Parks
    • $40m farm completes coast-to-coast corridor
    • Open day for new regional park
    • Volcanic island set to become public park
  • Ocean Beach
    • An unsettled coastline?
    • Coastal - Part 1
    • Future Ocean Beach
    • Hawke's Bay Coastline
    • Ocean Beach Saga
    • Ocean Beach, Hastings
    • Plan for housing at Ocean Beach seen as still flawed
  • Ohiwa Spit
    • Society warns against Ohiwa spit property sale (11 January 2006)
  • Omaha
    • Court rejects Omaha development
    • Surfers concerned about coastal buy-up
  • Omapere
    • Beachfront owners fear erosion
    • Erosion worry for Omapere homes
    • Restored lake subject of doco
  • Outside NZ
    • Dutch pioneer floating eco-homes
    • Floating Houses
    • Holding the Beachhead: The Fight to Save Fingal
    • Humans 'destroying coastal life'
    • Ocean glimpses Old Bar Beach residents near Taree fear
    • On the brink
    • Welsh beauty celebrates 50 years
  • Papakanui Spit
    • Threatened species need help of North residents
  • Pohutukawa
    • Crimson coastline a conservation success
    • Plan to protect pohutukawa too late for Reotahi old-timer
    • Pohutukawa crusader still on campaign trail
    • Project Crimson Loses Sponsor
    • Tree policy under fire
  • Punakaiki
    • Buller Erosion
  • Stonefields
    • Auckland's $300m quarry development
    • Cracks show in suburb's parks project
    • Harvest of houses from fields of stone (LandCo, Stonefields)
    • Old Quarry site turns into Stonefields
    • Pukeko caught in Mt Wellington growth (Stonefields)
    • Volcano saved from intrusion of flats
  • Te Arai / Mangawhai
    • Te Arai Beach Preservation Society, revisited
    • 180-lot coastal scheme rejected
    • Big fines for illegal earthworks
    • Boundary changes could see surge in coastal development
    • Call for submissions - Te Arai
    • Coastal development threatens rare birds
    • Community saves coast
    • Council blocks 'Orewa II' development
    • Developers hand over $1m walkway
    • Developers pin hopes on super-city changes
    • East Coast Land
    • Endangered bird forces resort delay
    • Govt in talks to buy back block of Maori land
    • Hapu plan guards rare birds
    • Hapu trustees in finance furore
    • Help Save Te Arai
    • Iwi resort 'could create core of park'
    • Mangawhai Harbour Restoration Society
    • Mangawhai Residents and Ratepayers Association
    • Maori hoping third time lucky on scaled-back plan
    • New Zealand's most endangered birds...
    • North groups 'over the moon'
    • Open at last, the path with $1.5 million views
    • Te Arai - Council turns down proposal!
    • Te Arai development turned down
    • Te Arai Subdivision Facing Court Battle
    • Te Arai: We don't want Orewa ll
    • Trust seeks funds from chairman
  • The Rest
    • $700m revamp for seaside village (Waiwera)
    • 'Sugar-coated' help to restore Rarawa Beach
    • Ambitious developer is wound up by IRD
    • Aucklanders snapping up coastal property
    • Cottage owners part with old friend
    • DOC report - Natural Areas of Whangaruru Ecological District
    • Future of open spaces debated (Far North)
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    • Ngunguru Beach / Estuary North Island New Zealand 2010
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    • Tony walks Te Araroa – Post 13 – Whananaki to Ngunguru
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    • Lots of plants to give
    • Family's poignant vigil to end
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    • Tutukaka coastal clean-up in the bag
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    • Evan Barclay, Divemaster, Dive! Tutukaka
    • Skipper's awesome award
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    • Boaties cough up $1000 after taking dogs on island
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    • Nearly 5 years' jail for brutal stabbing
    • All about Glenbervie's history
    • District's last long drop soon to be consigned to history
    • Ngunguru Volunteer Fire Brigade 50th jubilee
    • Cuts on calf's back blamed on boaties
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    • New drug offers hope for those battling arthritis
    • Footprint and knife clues to late night sheep rustlers
    • Businesses batten down the hatches
    • Heavy rain, wind may cause flooding, damage
    • School takes shape (Glenbervie)
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    • Ngunguru Primary School's history search
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    • Estuary art show puts talent on display
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    • Rural fire chiefs end long association
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    • Long road to recovery for injured coastguard volunteers
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    • Trish Clarke Visual
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    • Why We'll Return to Whangarei, Part 2
    • Desperate bid fails to save man
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    • Reality doesn't bite
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    • GPs off to help after killer blow
    • Ngunguru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    • Feature Guest - Wade Doak
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