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Environmental groups: government must keep promise on mining
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 1:55 pm | Forest And Bird
A group of environmental organisations that last year successfully defended national parks from mining is asking the government to keep its promise to give New Zealanders a say about a new plan to mine conservation land on the Denniston Plateau. More >>
Accord laggards letting down water quality work
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 3:05 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Accord laggards letting down water quality work Forest & Bird said today a fall in the proportion of farmers significantly breaching their dairy effluent conditions was good news, but a significant minority ... More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes new report on rivers
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 12:55 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Forest & Bird welcomes new report on rivers Forest & Bird today backed the New Zealand Conservation Authority’s recommendation that a single government agency be made responsible for protecting ... More >>
Fishing industry free to kill endangered sea lions
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 7:10 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Ministry of Fisheries proposes fishing industry free to kill endangered sea lions The Ministry of Fisheries is proposing that the southern squid fishery should have no limits on how many critically endangered ... More >>
Fonterra water quality move welcomed
Friday, 2 December 2011, 3:25 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Fonterra water quality move welcomed Forest & Bird today congratulated dairy giant Fonterra for introducing a new requirement on their farmer suppliers to keep stock away from waterways. More >>
Government ramps up mining agenda on first day back
Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 1:54 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Government ramps up mining agenda on first day back in office On the first working day after the election, Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson has told Forest & Bird that the government will break ... More >>
Water decision good for Waitaki environment
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 3:08 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird today welcomed the decision by Environment Canterbury (ECan) to decline nine irrigation and water take consents in the Upper Waitaki Valley. More >>
National’s conservation agenda is a risk
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 1:58 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use National’s conservation agenda is a risk The National Party’s conservation policy has some welcome proposals but would also put our natural heritage at risk, independent conservation organisation ... More >>
Forest and Bird: National’s environment policy not enough
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 4:31 pm | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird today welcomed the increased focus of the National Party’s environment policy on oceans and marine policy. But Forest & Bird Advocacy Manager Kevin Hackwell said other National party policies, ... More >>
Forest & Bird calls on the government to keep mining promise
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 11:56 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is calling on the government to honour the promise it made last year to let all New Zealanders have a say about plans to mine public conservation land - a promise that could help protect the West Coast's Denniston Plateau from ... More >>
Forest & Bird against undermining of environment in RMA
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 5:32 pm | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird said today it is concerned that the National Party has announced a policy that would undermine the Resource Management Act’s most important environmental protections. More >>
Forest & Bird knows what voters want – do politicians?
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 12:57 pm | Forest And Bird
1 November 2011 – Wellington Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Forest & Bird knows what voters want – do politicians? Forest & Bird is not surprised by the results of a poll last night, which found that the natural environment ... More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes Labour’s promise on wild rivers
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 4:56 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Forest & Bird welcomes Labour’s promise to protect wild rivers Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird welcomes the Labour Party’s policy to seek to protect the main parts of our ... More >>
Conservation will be fair game under new council
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 2:42 pm | Forest And Bird
The government’s introduction of legislation to establish a Game Animal Council is not common sense, and will undermine conservation, Forest & Bird said today. The legislation, introduced to Parliament yesterday, will see the responsibility for ... More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes Labour high country policy
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 3:58 pm | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird today welcomed the Labour Party’s high country policy as a step forward for protecting some of our most treasured landscapes and endangered plants and animals. The Labour Party said it would stop the current ... More >>
Tragic impact on wildlife from oil disaster
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 2:36 pm | Forest And Bird
Hundreds of dead birds have already been found along the Bay of Plenty coastline as a result of the Rena oil spill disaster but these represent just a fraction of the affected wildlife, Forest & Bird said today. “The number of birds being found ... More >>
New Zealand must wake up to oil spill dangers
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 1:16 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird said today the unfolding oil spill disaster in the Bay of Plenty is a stark warning about the potential catastrophe that could result from deep sea oil drilling in our waters. More >>
Action needed to prevent environmental disaster
Friday, 7 October 2011, 11:33 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird said today urgent action is needed to avoid an environmental disaster and to minimise seabird deaths as a result of the oil spill off the Bay of Plenty coast. More >>
Action needed to prevent NZ dolphin extinctions
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 3:47 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird said today evidence is growing about the need for further immediate action to stop the slide towards extinction of New Zealand’s endemic Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins. “These dolphins are on the brink of extinction and the main ... More >>
Don’t forget conservation, Forest & Bird says
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 4:40 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird today welcomed the Green Party’s package of economic policies as positive for the environment. “We need to stop selling ourselves short, by spending our environmental capital on short-term economic gain, and start investing in the ... More >>
