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Overall marine protection still amounts to little
Sunday, 16 March 2014, 12:32 pm | Forest And Bird
Prospect of new marine reserve welcomed, but overall protection still amounts to little Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is welcoming the news that the government is acting to speed up the implementation of a package of marine ... More >>
Squid fishing halt needed to protect sea lions
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 11:52 am | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird says the government must immediately close the squid fishery around the Auckland Islands, following the release of data that shows sea lion pup numbers there are falling dramatically. “The facts ... More >>
Forest & Bird alarmed at second sea lion death
Tuesday, 4 March 2014, 9:14 am | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is calling for the squid fishing industry to use more sustainable methods after the death of a second endangered New Zealand sea lion in a fishing net in the first five weeks of the squid fishing ... More >>
Forest & Bird says large-scale marine protection needed
Monday, 3 March 2014, 12:54 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the announcement of new marine reserves around three Sub-Antarctic Islands is positive news but the real figures about New Zealand’s marine protection are an international embarrassment. Conservation Minister Nick Smith says the new ... More >>
Forest & Bird calls for permanent stop to Denniston mine
Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 2:38 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is calling on Bathurst Resources not to start the destructive preparatory work on its planned open cast coal mine on the Denniston Plateau, following the news the company is delaying the project indefinitely. More >>
Forest & Bird condemns death of endangered sea lion
Monday, 10 February 2014, 12:08 pm | Forest And Bird
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird is disappointed to learn about the death of an endangered New Zealand sea lion in a squid fishing net in January. The news was released late on Friday, February 7. More >>
Government must fund DOC’s 1080 boost to save native species
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 9:38 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird, New Zealand’s largest conservation charity, says an increase in 1080 predator control operations announced by the Department of Conservation is a fitting response to the grave threat posed by this year’s massive crop of seeds ... More >>
‘Extinct’ bird may be alive
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 11:23 am | Forest And Bird
‘Extinct’ bird may be alive Forest & Bird is welcoming the news that the South Island kokako – declared extinct in 2007 - could still be alive. An apparent sighting of a South Island kokako has recently been accepted by the Ornithological ... More >>
Forest & Bird signs Denniston reserve agreement
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 9:13 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has decided not to appeal an Environment Court decision allowing an open-cast coal mine on the Denniston Plateau, and has reached an agreement that will ensure at least some of the plateau is protected for the sake of the native plants ... More >>
Cleaner rivers a step closer
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 3:44 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says a set of draft national standards on freshwater quality, released today, are a good first step towards bringing New Zealand’s rivers and lakes back to how New Zealanders expect them to be. More >>
Mohua crowned Bird of the Year
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 6:15 pm | Forest And Bird
The mohua (yellowhead) has been crowned Bird of the Year Forest & Bird’s ninth annual poll. More >>
Forest & Bird concerned at DOC’s Denniston statement
Friday, 25 October 2013, 3:30 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the Department of Conservation’s defence today of its failure to protect the Denniston Plateau is a concern for all New Zealanders. More >>
Denniston decision undermines NZ
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 7:56 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says it is extremely disappointed by the Environment Court’s decision today to grant Bathurst Resources permission to dig an open cast coal mine on conservation land on the Denniston Plateau. More >>
Ruru into the lead in Bird of the Year poll
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 12:53 pm | Forest And Bird
A Dunedin primary school has pushed the ruru (morepork) into the lead in the final days of voting in Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll. More >>
Forest & Bird to present DOC’s famous lost submission
Monday, 14 October 2013, 9:08 am | Forest And Bird
A 32 page Department of Conservation submission on the environmental impacts of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s planned irrigation dam, which was substituted for a two paragraph submission in unusual circumstances, will be made public after ... More >>
High-time for a Kermadecs ocean sanctuary - Forest & Bird
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 12:39 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the creation of an ocean sanctuary around our only subtropical region is long overdue – and that the lack of action so far points to a failure of care on the part of the current government. More >>
Bird of the Year Poll Opens Tomorrow
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 11:55 am | Forest And Bird
Hayley Holt, singer Barnaby Weir, United Future leader Peter Dunne, and TV personality Wallace Chapman will be just a few of the New Zealanders going into battle for their favourite native bird in Forest & Bird’s annual Bird of the Year poll More >>
Govt urged to abandon RMA plans
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 11:28 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says Environment Minister Amy Adams must abandon her plans to gut the core of the Resource Management Act, now that the Maori and United Future parties have pledged not to support her changes through the house. More >>
Govt fiddles while Maui’s dolphins edge towards extinction
Friday, 6 September 2013, 4:24 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the minor changes the Minister of Conservation is proposing to make to the boundaries of an area closed to gill-netting off the North Island’s West Coast are entirely inadequate, and will do little if anything to save the Maui’s ... More >>
Incremental RMA changes matter for people and place
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 12:27 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the Resource Management Act reforms passed in Parliament last night are a sign of more to come, and New Zealanders generally don’t understand how significant the rest of the government’s planned changes to the RMA are for ... More >>
