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Here are the ways you can continue to keep in touch with us: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and our website nrc.govt.nz where you can also subscribe to our enewsletters 😊 ^Noho ora mai, NRC Digital Team.

Kia ora X/Twitter whānau! You may or may not have noticed that we haven’t been using this platform for a while. After a bit of thought, we have decided to stop using this platform. The next tweet will be our last and will also list locations where you can head for updates from us

📰 Keep an eye out for new Manchurian wild rice infestations after flooding Northlanders are being asked to keep an eye out for new patches of Manchurian wild rice grass within a formal ‘Eradication Zone’. 🔗Read the full story here: bit.ly/3ovFwV2

📰 Tū i te ora Scholarships awarded Six Northland students are set to receive $4000 in financial assistance and paid work experience thanks to Northland Regional Council’s Tū i te ora Scholarship. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3MUieSq

📰 Collaboration the focus in meeting with new Conservation Minister 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3MM4V69

📰 Fears unwanted seaweed has reached Northland. A small clump of suspected Caulerpa brachypus seaweed has been potentially spotted on a Bay of Islands beach, which would confirm the worst fears of the Northland Regional Council. 🔗 READ THE FULL STORY: bit.ly/41PgdLw

📰 Council seeks urgent Ministerial meeting over seaweed threat There has been a 'Manifestly insufficient’ response by Biosecurity NZ to the threat posed to Te Taitokerau by invasive Caulerpa seaweed. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3pyXAxH Photo credit to NIWA

📰 Lake Taharoa vegetation loss investigated Investigations are underway into the mysterious loss of most of the submerged vegetation in Lake Taharoa, the largest in the Kai Iwi dune lakes group and Northland’s deepest lake. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3nHhPsA

📰 Fictional Tutukaka spill exercises oil spill responders Two dozen Northland Regional Council staff have taken part in a practical exercise based around a fictional oil spill in the Tutukaka Harbour. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3n7O8kd

📰 Lifejacket library scheme popular Organisers estimate about 300 lifejackets have been distributed to communities throughout Northland over the past several years as part of an innovative lifejacket library scheme. 🔗 Read the full story: bit.ly/43CbWgl

📰 Council unveils cyclone recovery measures The Northland Regional Council has revealed a suite of measures in response to Cyclone Gabrielle. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3nJz10l

Kākahi, a native species classified as 'At risk - declining' has be found to be thriving in Rotokawau on the Poutō Peninsula! 🔗 READ THE FULL STORY: bit.ly/3z562q9 SUBSCRIBE to get more stories like this: bit.ly/2sRsWix

📰 Northland tsunami siren testing at end of daylight saving 🔆 Northland’s six-monthly tsunami siren test will take place at the end of daylight saving on Sunday, 2 April. 🔗 bit.ly/42K7GuI

More than half a million dead animals across Te Taitokerau isn’t usually something to celebrate. 🔗 READ THE FULL STORY: bit.ly/3yYZAkv SUBSCRIBE to get more stories like this: bit.ly/2sRsWix

🚤 Heading out on the boat this weekend? Our Coastal Monitoring Manager, Clark has a few words of advice when it comes to dealing with boat sewage and ensuring our moana continues to thrive.

WINNER – Deer roar competition 🦌📢 Thanks to everyone who entered our competition at Northland Field Days – we received 48 roar-some entries! Find out who the winner of the $200 Hunting & Fishing Voucher is 👇Keen to learn more about feral deer? Check out:bit.ly/3TvAT8I

📰 New bridge underway as part of Otiria-Moerewa floodworks A start has been made on a new 60-metre long, $3.5 million road bridge at the heart of new works to better protect Otiria and Moerewa from the impacts of flooding. 🔗 Find out more here: bit.ly/3FANgKI

📰 Have your say on Annual Plan The public is being asked for its views on the Northland Regional Council’s Annual Plan 2023/24. 🔗 Read the full story, and access the consultation document here: bit.ly/3Lu6jtW

📰 Enviroschools Encounter events for Seaweek Organisers are hoping up to 300 tamariki will attend one of a series of fun-filled Seaweek-themed Enviroschools Encounter events being held around the region. 🔗 Get more info and read the full story here: bit.ly/3ZWrcSA

📰 NRC ‘Talk Tent’ for field days Northland Regional Council will be at Northland Field Days again this year. The council’s site will showcase an incredible scale model of a mature kauri tree created by Wētā Workshops. 🔗 Read the full story here: bit.ly/3KCc4FI