11 Jul 2023

National Walking Plan, is it a good idea?

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 11 July 2023

New Zealand's first National Walking Plan will be released later this month. We'll know more about that soon.

In the meantime we wanted to know how easy is it to walk around a city? And what are the benefits?

Landscape ecologist Dr Colin Meurk is passionate about walking. He's presenting at this year's annual Walking Summit in Christchurch. He talks to Jesse.

On a walk part way around the Travis Wetland Nature Heritage Park, Christchurch New Zealand.

On a walk part way around the Travis Wetland Nature Heritage Park, Christchurch New Zealand. Photo: CC BY SA 2.0 Jocelyn Kinghorn via wikicommons

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