wellington
Incredible good news for Pōneke Wellington and Aotearoa NZ
The Capital Kiwi project has achieve a key milestone - all kiwi in the project area (the hills of western Wellington) are now properly “free-range” - living without tracking transmitters. Ten years in the project has achieved a 90%+ survival rate for kiwi chicks - in the wild. This is truly astonishing.
Read more about the milestone at The Spinoff, and have a look at the YouTube video showing the last transmitters being removed.
This is just one part of the wider efforts across Pōneke Wellington to enable our native birds and wildlife to flourish once again.
I highly recommend donating to support this outstanding project: Donate
Spending locally
This is a ludicrous amount of money for a website - but I’m more outraged this wasn’t spent within the Wellington region. Its time for our local councils to focus more on spending locally.
Morning walk with Bill
- The Whale Tail sculpture at Oriental Bay, Wellington
- The KIMI / You Are Here sculpture in Waitangi Park, Pōneke
Who Wore It Better?
Mandatory Menswear entry for Rainbow Windows of Wellington (part of the Wellington Pride Festival 2026)
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Sewage
So apparently Sydney dumps “filtered”but essentially untreated sewage into the ocean?
Yuk.
Wellington is far from perfect, but is currently spending vast sums to improve it’s current treatment and to treat the sludge byproduct created by treatment.
I know where I’d rather live.
