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Pestbuster team wins Forest & Bird trophy
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 12:03 pm | Forest And Bird
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird has awarded its annual Pestbuster prize to Don Sullivan and his team of trappers in Nelson. They trapped 530 pests in the year to May 1 in four forest areas near Nelson and are already hearing the benefits ... More >>
Forest & Bird awards Golden Spade to volunteer
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 5:17 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird’s national Golden Spade winner is Wanda Tate, who single-handedly planted 2400 native plants in a year. The retired teacher spent 920 hours at Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve, near Wellington, in the year to May 1, 2009, helping to transform ... More >>
Don’t turn the Mackenzie Basin green
Monday, 1 June 2009, 11:03 am | Forest And Bird
Sunday, 31 May 2009: Forest & Bird fears that irrigation proposed by farmers for the Mackenzie Basin will turn this iconic russet brown tussock landscape into bright grass green. More >>
Protected species killed in coastal fisheries
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 3:46 pm | Forest And Bird
Set nets catch more protected species than previously thought, according to Ministry of Fisheries observer programme results released on the Ministry website today. Forest & Bird Marine Conservation Advocate Kirstie Knowles says these results reinforce ... More >>
Forest & Bird slates high country report
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 3:26 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is very disappointed that the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report on high-country tenure review is out of touch with recent developments, riddled with inaccuracies and poorly argued. “This is the poorest report to come out of ... More >>
Meridian land swap plan a poor deal
Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 5:26 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird rejects Meridian Energy’s proposed land swap to mitigate its planned destruction of the Mokihinui River on the West Coast. “Meridian is trying to offer this farm land as a sweetener so it can flood the wild Mokihinui River valley for ... More >>
Synchronised spectacular celebrates Seaweek
Friday, 27 February 2009, 10:44 am | Forest And Bird
The Frank Kitts Lagoon will be alive with sea creatures celebrating the start of Seaweek on Sunday. More >>
Toll of mutilated Hector’s dolphins rises
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:26 am | Forest And Bird
Another mutilated Hector’s dolphin found washed up on a beach has been reported to conservation group Forest & Bird. Its abdomen had been slashed with a knife. The dolphin – found on Moeraki Beach in Otago on January 21 – is the latest case ... More >>
RMA changes swing against ordinary Kiwis
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 5:18 pm | Forest And Bird
Conservation group Forest & Bird believes changes to the Resource Management Act announced today will make it harder for ordinary Kiwis to have a say in protecting the environment from unsustainable development. More >>
Hector in Wgtn to thank parliament for set net ban
Friday, 30 January 2009, 2:51 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest &Bird is encouraged by Wednesday’s sighting of a Hector’s dolphin in Wellington harbour as a sign that the dolphins have come to say thank-you for the set net ban introduced in May 2008. More >>
Sea lion kill quota cut welcome, must go further
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 9:52 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has welcomed a reduction in the number of sea lions the southern squid fishery will kill this season – but says the number of sea lion deaths still needs to be much lower. More >>
minister must cut sea lion kill quota
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 2:18 pm | Forest And Bird
A record drop in the number of New Zealand sea lion pups means the Fisheries Minister must cut the number of sea lions killed in the southern squid fishery, Forest & Bird says. More >>
Forest & Bird condemns 40% rise in sea lion quota
Sunday, 21 December 2008, 5:00 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is shocked that squid fishers will be allowed to kill 40 per cent more threatened New Zealand sea lions in the coming season. More >>
Partnership will help kakapo keep on booming
Friday, 5 December 2008, 9:25 am | Forest And Bird
Rio Tinto Alcan NZ, the Department of Conservation and Forest & Bird have signed up to a renewed partnership programme to support efforts to help the kakapo. More >>
Election result one for the birds
Saturday, 8 November 2008, 1:16 pm | Forest And Bird
The kakapo today declared election victory in Forest & Bird’s annual Bird of the Year contest. More >>
Forest & Bird media release for immediate use
Friday, 7 November 2008, 8:59 am | Forest And Bird
Labour’s conservation policy contains some good commitments but also some contradictions, Forest & Bird says. More >>
Government fails to stop shark finning
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 3:55 pm | Forest And Bird
The Government’s plan of action on sharks does little to protect them because it continues to allow shark finning, Forest & Bird says. More >>
NZ sea lions on red alert
Monday, 13 October 2008, 1:27 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird urges the Ministry of Fisheries to do more to protect endangered New Zealand sea lions, which have been relisted as a declining population on the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. More >>
High-flying poll opens
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 10:23 am | Forest And Bird
Voting opens tomorrow (Tuesday, October 7) in New Zealand’s most critical election: Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year poll. More >>
Rivers get dirtier under Clean Streams Accord
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 2:02 pm | Forest And Bird
Waterways in many areas are more polluted than they were five years ago when the voluntary Clean Streams Accord was set up, according to a report released today by Forest & Bird and Fish & Game New Zealand. More >>
