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The southern Milky Way graces the night skies over Wai-iti, near Wakefield - the home of New Zealand's first Dark Sky Park. Photo: Darkskies.nz / Supplied
July 10, 2020
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The International Dark Sky Association (IDA) has recently accredited Wai-iti Recreation Reserve and Tunnicliff Forest with the status...IDA executive director Ruskin Hartley said the achievement was testament to the persistence of those involved in the years-long nomination, ...He described such places as important for teaching communities about the importance of the night sky for all who shared the environment, including humans, animals and plants.

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