New Zealand’s wine industry aims to be the first in the world to go sustainable, and has issued a draft sustainability policy to be implemented by vintage 2012.
A New Zealand initiative to establish a World Heritage Starlight Reserve is underway, with 2009 as the goal for the Lake Takapo and Aoraki Mount Cook skies.
Visitors to Kapiti Island, just north of Wellington, can now experience the conservation in a new way with the opening of a day track at the island’s northern end.