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June 1st 2009
Submitted by Charlotte on June 1, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Editor’s Pick:
Do you love a good old fashioned challenge to stimulate your mind and apply your powers of positive thinking to? Here’s an opportunity to create some positive change for New Zealand’s wild horses. Consider the current tight corner that the Kaimanawa Horses of the North Island are in. They need to be rehomed before this Wednesday. These horses are healthy, robust, hard hoofed animals. People tell me they’re great with children, they don’t eat much and they’re emotionally and physically well balanced. I think it’s worth putting in a little extra effort to rehome these horses, or at least buy more time until more homes can be found. So if any Happyzine readers have any ideas, or feel the urge to take some degree of action to help these horses, do it now and have fun doing it! You’ll find contact details of people who are working to rehome the horses at the bottom of this article. Even one small gesture towards helping New Zealand’s wild horses will make a difference.
Charlotte Squire
Good New Roundup
Aucklander Tami Neilson has walked away from the Gold Guitars Awards in Gore with the 2009 Recording Industry of New Zealand Best Country Music Album award. Neilson is a prolific performer, she’s appeared on Chanel One’s Good Morning and on Stars in Their Eyes (Otago Daily Times).
Artist in residence Eve Armstrong at McCahon House in Titirangi creates collages and sculptures using the every day rubbish that many of us would either throw out or give to second hand shops (NZ Herald).
Imagine if your bike folded down into the size of a wheel – student Robert Dumaresq came up with this idea when the Victorian Government talked of banning bicycles from public transport. This was also one of the prize winning ideas that achieved honours at the Australian International Design Awards (Sydney Morning Herald).
Back to music, a ‘lost’ instrument has been recreated thanks to computer technology. The Lituus – a trumpet like instrument – hasn’t been played for approximately 300 years (BBC).
Pavement reclamation enthusiasts will be pleased to read that San Fransisco has joined the movement. One thousand symbolic square feet has been reclaimed on Castro Street in what is hoped to be the first of much more movement in favour of the pedestrian (ENN.com).
Onto environmental good news now – thanks to enthusiastic volunteers the Manawatu Gorge is well on it way to being returned to its former blooming red glory as more rata are being returned to the area (Department of Conservation).
Did you know environmentalism is going mainstream? That’s right, some big names in New Zealand fronting a campaign that will run for the next seven months to convince 300,000 kiwis to sign onto the call for a forty percent cut in green house gas emissions by 2020 (Sunday Star Times).
Check this out – a website that exists to help users protect tropical rainforest one acre at a time has won a webby award (Happy News.com).
Conservationalists are excited that for the first time in 150 years bison calves have been born on native prairie in Iowa on the Broken Kettle Grasslands Reserve. This proves that the ecology of this area is once more diverse and strong enough to sustain the bison (Nature.org).
Once the rarest mammal in the world, the black-footed ferret is back on the scene thanks to a captive breeding programme in Wyoming. Two hundred and twenty three of them, descended from an original seven which were rescued in 1986, are out hunting in the Shirly Basin area (Treehugger.com).
Twenty two new biosphere reserves (parts of the planet where humans are interacting in a sustainable manner with nature) have been added to a list of five hundred and thirty three of them in one hundred and seven countries by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (The New York Times).
Who needs pesticides when you’ve got owls and kestrels? Farmers of the Middle East are using these animals as pest control, many installing pest boxes to attract the birds (BBC).
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