Media releases 2022

January 2022

• Check before you travel
• Funding open for school sustainability and resilience projects
• Lack of lifejackets biggest concern for Harbourmaster
• Tongan shockwave detected in Bay of Plenty
• Environmental fund makes Onepu wetland accessible
• ...

February 2022

• Awards keep flowing in for Kaituna River re-diversion project
• Bus timetables about to change following COVID-19 concerns
• Boaties encouraged to respect new Motiti Protection Area rules
• Pig farm prosecution shows importance of correct farming practices

March 2022

• Coast Care stalwarts set to retire
• Half price bus fares on the way for all Bay of Plenty Regional Council services
• Further fines for CRS Tauranga Limited
• eDNA testing of rivers may reveal secretive fish
• People urged to stay off dunes
• ...

April 2022

• Out of bounds: Safeguarding the Whakatane stopbank
• Whakatane Futureproof investigations continue
• Rotorua Cityride bus services to resume normal timetables from this Monday

May 2022

• Regional Council Environmental Fund opens
• eDNA confirms threatened fish species in the Ohiwa area
• Tauranga's central bus interchange on the move in June

July 2022

• Community-led Adaptation Funding supports three more projects
• Lake Rotorua highest level in five years
• Waihi Estuary health under the microscope

August 2022

• Boat salvages keep Harbourmaster team busy
• One year of the Motiti Protection Area

October 2022

• Bus driver shortages tackled head on
• Busy summer for Harbourmaster team
• Edgecumbe flood defences to be replaced

November 2022

• Science Speaker Series to shed light on the plight of the Te Arawa lakes

December 2022

• Successful safer boating pilot programme for iwi and hapu