RaoulDuke

I just posted about this on !politics@lemmy.nz, but anyone who cares about NZ wildlife, tourism or climate change should have their say on this.

MBIE's Tourism Environment Leadership Group has developed a Draft Tourism Environment Action Plan. They say:

The draft action plan aims to ensure tourism has a positive impact on the natural environment and proposes 6 focus areas to achieve this. These areas or Tirohanga Hou (new pathways) are:

• Tourism journeys are decarbonised
• Tourism champions biodiversity
• Visitor management is optimised for te taiao (nature)
• Accelerated technology uptake and innovation enable regeneration
• Tourism businesses are incentivised and enabled for sustainability and regeneration
• The tourism system and its levers are optimised and resourced to support regeneration

Each area has multiple actions that will deliver positives not only for the environment but for communities and tourism operations.

Some actions see the tourism industry working with communities to create a picture of what healthy visitation looks like. Others focus on supporting and incentivising tourism operators to adopt sustainable or regenerative practices. Rapid investment in low-carbon technologies for long-haul travel is another key action.

You can take their survey here. It's anonymous and took me about 10 minutes. The full plan and info about how else to make submissions is here.

There's an RNZ article about this, but they mostly focus on "sustainable airline fuels".

I almost never got search results when searching for communities. I was interested if searching for .nz worked like this post suggested, but no luck.

I've tried a bunch of different searches and realised a few things (screenshots here):

If I search for .nz, no.lastname.nz, trees@no.lastname.nz or !trees in "Communities" I get no results. If I search for [!trees@no.lastname.nz](/c/trees@no.lastname.nz), I still get no results, but the "No results" text never shows up.

But... if I search for just trees in "Communities" it shows up. And the above searches work if I set the type to "All" or "Posts". That's OK if I've got the full name and instance, but if it's just a search term like .nz, smaller communities get lost among the posts and comments.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? It's behaving the same on my computer and phone, both Firefox. I've tried logging out and logging in (by the way, it just kept ignoring my logout request so I had to delete the cookie lemmy.nz had set).

I just found out about the Aotearoa Species Classifier via this post.

It's made by members of the TAIAO project at Waikato and Canterbury universities using AI trained on photos from iNaturalist.

Then someone told me in that thread that the iNaturalist app already had its own auto ID feature.

The Aotearoa Species Classifier works offline, and seems to be better at IDing than iNaturalist, but they're both good. The Aotearoa Species Classifier also has an online web classifier that has more powerful models and tools than the app.

Aotearoa Species Classifier

• Google Play Store
• Apple App Store
• Web Classifier

iNaturalist

• Google Play Store
• Apple App Store

Edit: This has been fixed. Thank you admins.

~~If you visit lemmy.nz via http rather than https, you get a Bad Gateway error. It should be redirecting to the https url. Not sure who's in charge of the domain and server, but it can usually be done in either of those places.~~