Author: TIS-Redesign

Innovative fundraising opportunity for your group Te Ipukarea Society has been trialing the rent a plate portable dishwashing trailer at the Muri Night Market for several nights over the past…

Time To Ditch Sustainability This weeks environmental article is written by Te Ipukarea Society Executive Member June Hosking. I have often talked about Andrew and I developing a sustainable lifestyle…

Waste Wise Mangaia Effective waste management in the pa enua is near non existent with limited infrastructure and no funding made available to send recyclable waste off each of the…

Seabed Mining Benefits vs Losses This environmental article was written by Te Ipukarea Society Executive Member June Hosking When in Rarotonga it’s fun to observe progress on the seawall; great…

Little Mermaid Making a Conservation Splash This article is adapted and based almost entirely on a story by Elene Peradze, on the IMPAKTER Platform and Magazine website. https://impakter.com/the-little-mermaid-a-tale-of-ocean-conservation-and-sustainable-values/ The  Cook…

Local Lorikeets Celebrated World parrot day celebrated earlier this week on May 31st gives us a good excuse to bring more attention to a couple of our own brightly coloured…

Some concerning aspects around Deep sea mining. Proponents of mining our deep ocean seafloor justify the need for this hugely destructive process largely by claims that the minerals from the…

Citizen science to assist turtle conservation Rarotonga’s passages are key sites for spotting two species of sea turtles, the endangered green turtle and the critically endangered hawksbill turtle. Commonly seen…

27 years of protecting our Ipukarea It has been almost 12 months since the last Te Ipukarea Society Annual General Meeting (AGM). As usual, before our AGM, we look back…

Community Efforts to Remove Rats Polynesian rats were introduced to the Cook Islands via early Vaka voyages. With time other species typically more dominant and destructive such as the Ship…