Local Elections
🌿 Dear Neighbours of the Waitākere Ranges, 🌿
Our community is unique — rich with diversity, natural beauty, and the strong spirit of everyday families working hard to make a better life. But too often, our voices are drowned out by the same old faces and the same old politics.
I, QURESHI, Rizwan Ahmed, am standing as a candidate for the Waitākere Ranges Local Board because I believe it’s time for fresh energy, fair representation, and real change.
✅ I will stand up for families, young people, and seniors who deserve a stronger voice.
✅ I will work to make our neighbourhoods safer, greener, and more connected.
✅ I will bring transparency, accountability, and community-first decision making.
This election is about you – your hopes, your future, and your right to be heard. Together, we can shape a board that reflects all of us, not just a select few.
🗳️ On election day, I humbly ask you to place your trust in me.
Vote for QURESHI, Rizwan Ahmed – your voice, your future.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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