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PCE’s call for certainty over DOC land overdue
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 9:43 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says that if the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s new recommendations on how the Department of Conservation manages its estate had been in place five years ago, the unique Denniston Plateau would be safe from the ... More >>
West Coast needs sustainable development, not boom and bust
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 2:39 pm | Forest And Bird
The West Coast needs sustainable economic development, not the coal industry’s short-term boom and bust cycles, says Forest & Bird. A small group of protestors from Go West Coast (formerly Environment West Coast) held a brief picket outside ... More >>
Major changes to RMA undermine environmental safeguards
Sunday, 11 August 2013, 10:47 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is describing the proposed changes to the core of the Resource Management Act as confirmation that the government's strategy is to create short term economic growth at the expense of the environment. More >>
Denniston decision a blow for NZ
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:57 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says it is extremely disappointed by the Environment Court’s key decision today to grant Bathurst Resources permission to dig an open cast mine on conservation land on the Denniston Plateau. The court’s decision is its second ... More >>
Forest & Bird joins call for more aerial 1080
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 11:38 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is backing the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s latest report, released last night, advocating greater 1080 use. More >>
Freshwater ‘national parks’ safe again – for the moment
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 1:43 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says that Environment Minister Amy Adams is to be congratulated for listening to public opinion and reversing a proposal to weaken the way New Zealand’s most outstanding lakes and rivers are protected. More >>
New Zealand shamed over Maui’s inaction
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:35 am | Forest And Bird
The International Whaling Commission is asking the New Zealand government to immediately ban set net and trawl fishing in all areas where Maui’s dolphins are found. More >>
Conservation “hero” receives top honours
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 12:37 pm | Forest And Bird
“Conservation hero” Carole Long has been named a Distinguished Life Member of New Zealand’s largest conservation organisation, Forest & Bird. More >>
Denniston mine returns to Environment Court
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 1:33 pm | Forest And Bird
The Environment Court will reconvene tomorrow ahead of its final deliberations on whether it will allow an open-cast mine on Denniston Plateau to go ahead. Conservation organisation Forest & Bird and the Australian mining company Bathurst Resources ... More >>
High Court Decision Boosts Bid to Save Denniston Plateau
Friday, 7 June 2013, 4:20 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird Top of the South Field Officer Debs Martin is delighted that the High Court has ruled in favour of the conservation organisation by finding errors of law in the Environment Court’s interim decision released in March. More >>
High Court decision won’t diminish case to save Denniston
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 2:09 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is disappointed with the High Court’s decision today related to an Australian mining company’s plan to mine the Denniston Plateau. The High Court today said it has declined to consider the effects of the proposed Sullivan Mine ... More >>
Evidence undermining key proposals to change the RMA
Monday, 27 May 2013, 11:47 am | Forest And Bird
Two developments in the ongoing debate over the government’s planned reforms to the RMA are welcome, and ought to cause Environment Minister Amy Adams to reconsider, Forest & Bird Conservation Advocate Claire Browning says. More >>
Forest & Bird praises Air NZ shark fin suspension
Friday, 24 May 2013, 9:32 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has been talking with Air New Zealand since early May about banning transportation of shark fins. This announcement follows a news item last Sunday (May 19), in which the airline was criticised for having flown shark fins. More >>
Minister’s OK to mine Denniston Plateau disaster for nature
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:49 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is devastated that Conservation Minister Nick Smith has today opened the door for an Australian company to mine ecologically significant conservation land on Denniston Plateau. More >>
Wider set net ban needed to save yellow-eyed penguins
Sunday, 19 May 2013, 11:39 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is calling for an extension to a ban on commercial and recreational set-netting around Otago Peninsula, following the release of an international review that has found that set nets kill 400,000 seabirds around the world every year. More >>
DOC job cuts threaten unique species and places
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 3:10 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is concerned that the protection of our unique species and places will suffer once today’s job cuts have been implemented, as the Department of Conservation (DOC) will have lost ten per cent of its workforce in just the last year. More >>
Smaller Funding Cuts a Sign Government Is Listening
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 9:05 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says today’s pre-budget announcement that the ongoing funding cuts to the Department of Conservation won’t be as deep as planned is a positive sign. More >>
Plan to save seabirds heralds changes to fishing practises
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 11:45 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming the release of a government-approved statement of intent to save native seabirds, including endangered albatrosses and petrels, from being killed by commercial and non-commercial fishing activity. More >>
Feedback ignored in rush to restructure DOC
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 2:13 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the timing of today’s announcement confirming the Department of Conservation’s initial restructuring plans shows that the 12 working day consultation process for staff and stakeholders was a sham. More >>
Outstanding upper Hurunui catchment safe at last
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 7:27 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming a decision by a set of independent commissioners – accepted by Environment Canterbury today - that will ensure that the pristine Upper Hurunui catchment in North Canterbury, including Lake Sumner and the South Branch, ... More >>
