EarthDiverse course on the Dead Sea Scrolls
EarthDiverse is pleased to announce one of our 2025 Term 4 History courses on the Dead Sea Scrolls with Dennis Green, PhD. Dennis, an archaeologist and former lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Waikato, is New Zealand's foremost scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Come and join us for 6 consecutive weekly sessions in Hamilton (or on-line via Zoom if you live elsewhere), on Monday nights beginning 13 October 2025. For more information and registration click the Read More link below to visit our website
Mayor’s use of poo emoji costs ratepayers over $4k
South Waikato mayor Gary Petley will make a public apology, and has sworn off social media after admitting he got it wrong when an online dispute turned sour.
A code of conduct complaint was made by Putāruru ward councillor Zed Latinovic in January after Petley reacted to comments made about council expenditure on Facebook by using the ‘poo emoji’.
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
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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?
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