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New Zealand’s rare woollyhead nearly disappeared from the wild. Two surviving plants helped produce 250 seedlings now heading back to the reserve

On the dry plains of Central Otago, a small native herb has been given another chance to survive in the wild. Craspedia argentea, a woollyhead found only around the Pisa Flats, had dwindled to just two known plants. By then, even the ordinary business of pollination had become difficult. There…

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Dammed if you do, damned if you don’t

The Central Otago District Council has decided to ask Parliament to push along a stalled irrigation project, despite warnings. Jill Herron reports.

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‘That’ll be the end’: actor Sam Neill joins fight to stop controversial goldmine near his New Zealand vineyard

Neill says ‘one of the most beautiful and remote places in the world’ will be permanently changed if Bendigo-Ophir wins fast-track approval

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Meet the ‘Old Mother Goose’ from NZ’s subtropical prehistoric past

During the early to mid Miocene period, 14 to 19 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of what is now Central Otago.

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Man Captures Stunning Images Of Southern Lights From Front Yard

Andrew Dickson captures the beauty of the southern lights in Central Otago, New Zealand, showcasing nature's wonders in stunning images.

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Putting the boot into water woes

The drawn-out process of improving water quality in Otago is coinciding with tough times for agriculture sparking a warning that new rules could tip some family farms over the edge

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Epitaph for Onslow

Nestled in the hills of Central Otago lies the energy silver bullet that New Zealand couldn’t afford.

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Tourism operators among Tarras naysayers

Tourism businesses are among the latest group objecting to Central Otago getting an international airport despite the potential for a customer windfall.

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All The Best Vineyards To Hit On NZ’s South Island If You’re Entering Your Wine Mum Era

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Clash over Tarras airport opposition claims

Opponents of a proposed international airport in Central Otago say results from a survey showing low levels of support for the plan have been misrepresented to government officials.

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Backsliding in the battle against pest species

Conservation projects across the country risk losing progress as money gets tighter and budgets are slashed.

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We need to talk about Tarras

Tourism-driven aviation planning is flying off in various directions in Central Otago.

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Southern town goes boldly into the night

Some communities campaign for more street lighting but in one town in Central Otago they’ve been toiling for years to make the place as dark as possible.

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Public ‘flying blind’ on Tarras proposal

Objectors continue to push for the canning of a mooted new Central Otago airport as the company pushing it buys the critical final piece of the site.

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Prickly pine problem in iconic landscape

Getting the right tree in the right place is no mean feat in Central Otago and some believe those needing to plant pines should do it somewhere else.

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Lake Onslow battery losing its charge

A New Zealand Battery Project centred on Lake Onslow in Central Otago is is starting to look less likely

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Central Otago subdivision buyers lose the plot

Plan gets caught in a wave of council rule rewrites driving some section buyers to give up and look elsewhere.

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Central Hawkes Bay finds out what it's made of

Central Hawkes Bay, overwhelmed and angry a month on from Cyclone Gabrielle, is feeling a warm glow from southern cuzzies.

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Central sizzles as north is deluged

Lawns are brown, cars dusty and the sheep are hugging the shade across Central Otago in a dry spell that looks set to drag on.

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Tarras airport - we shall not be mooved

Objections to a proposal to kick cattle off Central Otago farmland to make way for an international airport will be put to Christchurch councillors next week.

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Worm turns for threatened organics business

Rising property values and an expanding industrial zone in Central Otago are putting the squeeze on a decades-old natural-waste disposal operation.

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Fog partially lifts on ambitious airport plan

As Christchurch Airport looks to spread its wings with a new international terminal in the wide open spaces of Tarras, Central Otago, the project’s leader explains its ambitions.

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Calls for help over 'exploding' rabbit plague grow louder

A government agency has been instructed to crack down on an out-of-control rabbit population that is decimating lakeside land.

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Wild pines endanger Central Otago's character

One of the country’s foremost landscape painters sees himself in a race against time to protect the vistas that inspire him.

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Central Otago town hits pay dirt

Cromwell’s council is cashing in on rising land values to fund a suite of civic amenities costing tens of millions of dollars leaving its ratepayers among the least-indebted in the country.

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