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'Environmental disaster': PhD candidate offers 'low-mow' alternative for lawns

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Publish Date
Fri, 13 Mar 2026, 6:38pm

'Environmental disaster': PhD candidate offers 'low-mow' alternative for lawns

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 13 Mar 2026, 6:38pm

University of Auckland PhD candidate Olivia Rooke-Devoy has offered a 'low-mow' alternative to protect the lawn environment. 

She claims that over-mowing is letting off too much CO-2, and destroying the habitats of insects and bees. 

Rooke-Devoy told Heather du Plessis-Allan it's an 'environmental disaster'.

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