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COROMANDEL LIFE
SUMMER 2014
Waikato Region 1/2
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All over the Coromandel
local heroes like the Moehau
Environment Group volunteers
are helping protect amazing
places, spaces and species.
As a result of their intensive
predator control efforts there have
been dramatic turnarounds for
kiwi, pateke, fernbird, bittern, kaka
and spotless crake in the northern
Coromandel. Read more about the
Moehau Environment Group’s
ripple at
If you’re taking action to help
create a better environment
– with a group or in your own
backyard – share what you’re
doing by recording your own
ripple on the website.
Local heroes are
making ripples on
the Coromandel.
LAST ISSUE’S TEASER
LOON FOR ALL
“THE IDEA
MAY
SOUND A
BIT
CRAZY...”
Julie Amato, a jazz singer
whose tshirtback with “Loon
for All” on it, was the subject
of last issue’s teaser quiz. She
lives not in New Zealand, but
near Google headquarters in
Mountain View, California.
Writer Carol Wright lunched
at a Google hangout, and she
recognized it was New Zealand
shaped from balloons on her
shirt. “You are the first to guess
about New Zealand!” she said.
Project Loon is a “shoot for the
moon” project of Google[X],
the division that developed the
‘impossible’ Google Glass and
driverless car. Project Loon
tested last June in Christchurch:
a handful wireless transmitting
weather balloons signaled down
to 60 wireless users, who got
clear signal for 15 minutes.
The balloons and transmitters
blew east where most were
recovered from the sea.
Project Loon still faces
challenges to becoming a
worldwide wifi reality, as they continue tests in other parts of the world.
See
Project Loon on Facebook.
