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Cabinet Reshuffle Backward Step For Environment And Outdoors
Monday, 6 February 2023, 6:16 pm | CORANZ
The government’s reshuffling of ministers is a retrograde step for the environment, conservation and outdoors says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of New Zealand (CORANZ). CORANZ chairman Andi Cockroft described the cabinet reshuffle ... More >>
DOC And Fish And Game NZ – Conspicuous By Their Absence From Freshwater Crisis
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 9:14 am | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
I do not currently hold a trout fishing licence but as a keen conservationist and outdoor recreationalist, I take a keen and strong interest in the environment and in particular water, rivers and streams. More >>
Government Needs To Come Clean On Foreign Buy-ups Of NZ
Monday, 12 April 2021, 10:09 am | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
The current government needs to instigate far stricter controls on foreigners buying up New Zealand’s countryside says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations as well as keeping the New Zealand public informed of the extent of outsiders buying ... More >>
Curtailing Consultation And Diminishing Democracy Are Major Concerns
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 4:19 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
by Andi Cockroft Chairman Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ An Otago Daily Times report (23 January) that nearly two-thirds of Dunedin residents think public consultation is lacking at the Dunedin City Council, according to the latest ... More >>
Kaikoura Poaching Offence Highlights Need To Rein Fishing Corporates In - CORANZ
Friday, 13 November 2020, 6:11 am | CORANZ
It is well past time corporate fishing companies were reined in says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations (CORANZ). CORANZ chairman Andi Cockroft”s comment was in response to recent court cases in which Talley Fisheries were found guilty ... More >>
NZ First’s Fish Farm Policy Lacks Credibility
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 12:15 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
NZ First has promised to make up to $100 million available to expand marine farming and aquaculture, but an outdoor recreation council has slammed it saying the party is only serving its fishing company corporate bedfellows. Andi Cockroft, chairman ... More >>
Fish And Game Democracy Backed By Outdoor Council
Sunday, 30 August 2020, 2:02 pm | CORANZ
The Fish and Game organisation that administers and manages the public’s trout and salmon fishing and game bird shooting and currently subject to a government review, has been given a “thumbs up” from an outdoor recreation council. Council of Outdoor ... More >>
Outdoor Council Backs Fish And Game Under Threat
Saturday, 2 May 2020, 4:35 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
The beleaguered Fish and Game organisation under threat by the Department of Conservation and the Minister of Conservation of a review has received strong backing from the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ). CORANZ chairman Andi Cockroft ... More >>
Hunting Is A Legitimate, Humane Recreation Says Outdoors Council
Friday, 1 May 2020, 2:21 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
A recent public opinion piece by World Animal Protection New Zealand condemning hunting has been roundly criticised by the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ. “The slagging of duck hunting by WAPNZ is hypocritical, poorly based and ... More >>
Wellington’s Coastal Dumping Of Sewage And Waste
Monday, 6 April 2020, 3:27 pm | CORANZ
Dumping Sludge in the form of sewerage and waste water into Cook Strait is not only an environmental crime but reflected the capital city’s lack of priorities and mis-spending says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ). ... More >>
Democracy of Parliament’s Select Committees Being Eroded
Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 9:42 am | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
The democracy of Parliament’s Select Committees is being eroded by drastic slashing of the public’s right to make full submissions says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of New Zealand (CORANZ). More >>
DoC Not Truthful Saying Possums Are Bird Predators - CORANZ
Friday, 17 January 2020, 10:32 am | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
Claims by the Department of Conservation and some green groups that possums are eating birds eggs are incorrect and in any case, contrary to research says Andi Cockroft, chairman of Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ), a national ... More >>
Bird Decline - A Warning of Ecological Crisis?
Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 4:52 pm | CORANZ
New Zealand’s ecosystem is showing marked symptoms of ecological decline says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations (CORANZ). More >>
Government’s broken promises over Foreign Land Sales
Monday, 15 April 2019, 8:49 am | CORANZ
The government has broken an election promise to stem the sale of farmland to foreigners says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ). More >>
Outdoors Solution to NZ’s Struggling Teenagers
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 10:18 am | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
Recent reports of New Zealand adolescents ranking high in OECD countries’ teenage suicide and pregnancies rates suggest a much deeper problem and the need for a culture-shift by governments with recognition of the value of outdoor recreation says the Council ... More >>
National’s Environmental Policy Lacks Any Credibility
Sunday, 24 February 2019, 3:07 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
The National Party’s “Blue-Green” environmental policy document lacks integrity and credibility says an outdoor recreation council. More >>
Labour/NZ First Broken Promises on Recreational Fisheries
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 7:19 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
Labour has broken its 2017 election promises about reforming fisheries management and in particular conducting a review of the Quota Management System says a national outdoor recreational council. More >>
Replace GDP with GPI Says CORANZ
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 4:31 pm | Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations
A national outdoor recreation council has welcomed Prime Minister Jacinda Adrian’s recent announcement that measuring the national’s progress by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was flawed. The growing realisation is that GDP was narrowly economic in focus ... More >>
Outdoor Council Agrees Nelson Marlborough Mining “Crazy"
Friday, 3 August 2018, 9:24 am | CORANZ
A government decision to call for prospecting mining permits for public lands in Nelson Marlborough is not only short-sighted and disrespectful to the environment but treachery says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ). More >>
Time to measure Nation’s Well-being on Quality of Life
Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 11:17 am | CORANZ
A national outdoor recreation forum wants New Zealand to ditch the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measurement of New Zealand’s progress and replace it with Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). Andi Cockroft, chairman of the Council of Outdoor Recreation ... More >>
