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Welcome Budget projects but Vote Conservation cut
Friday, 28 May 2004, 1:19 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird welcomed new project spending for conservation announced yesterday in the Budget, but warns it did not address fundamental gaps in core work to save New Zealand's native plants and animals. More >>
RMA Review Will Waste Time And Money
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 9:41 am | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird today said that tinkering with the Resource Management Act (RMA) is not the way to improve its administration. Forest and Bird said that the Government should stop wasting money on yet another RMA amendment and instead get on with providing ... More >>
Squid Fishing Increase Would Kill 500 More Birds
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 11:08 am | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird is urging the Minister of Fisheries to reject a fishing industry proposal to increase the mainland squid trawl catch that would result in the deaths of more seabirds, seals and threatened sharks. More >>
RMA overhaul would harm environment & human health
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 5:35 pm | Forest And Bird
The Government is threatening to undermine the core principles of the Resource Management Act in an effort to speed things up for development, says Forest and Bird. More >>
Energy planning needed in wake of Aqua demise
Monday, 29 March 2004, 5:40 pm | Forest And Bird
New Zealand needs a dose of energy planning realism following the welcome collapse of Project Aqua. The country could want more electricity than was possible to generate unless sensible energy planning found ways to curb New Zealand's profligate energy ... More >>
International Recognition for Kiwi Conservationist
Friday, 12 March 2004, 6:31 pm | Forest And Bird
Kiwi ornithologist Don Merton has been honoured with a BirdLife International Conservation Achievement Award. The ceremony took place at the BirdLife International World Conference which is being held this week in Durban, South Africa. More >>
Mt Burnett dolomite quarry extension declined
Friday, 12 March 2004, 4:10 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird welcomes today's decision by Conservation Minister Chris Carter to decline an application by Omya NZ Ltd to extend its dolomite quarry onto conservation land on Mt Burnett in Golden Bay. More >>
Forest and Bird Dismayed by Pike Mine Decision
Friday, 12 March 2004, 2:42 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird is dismayed by Conservation Minister Chris Carter's decision to approve access for the controversial Pike coal mine despite a substantial Departmental report critical of the mine's impacts. More >>
Underming Conservation - Proposed Pike Coal Mine
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 2:24 pm | Forest And Bird
The Australian based Pike River Coal Company (PRCC) (72% owned by NZ Oil and Gas Ltd and 28 % private investors) wants to develop New Zealand's second largest export coal mine in the headwaters of the Pike River on the eastern slopes and crest of ... More >>
Gondola Be Gone!
Friday, 5 March 2004, 4:00 pm | Forest And Bird
News that Ngai Tahu and Sky Line Enterprises plan to proceed with a Gondola up the Caples Valley, crossing the Routeburn and Greenstone tracks to Milford, has shocked the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
Waitaki Fast Track Opposed
Friday, 27 February 2004, 6:43 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird today made clear its opposition to the Government's Waitaki catchment fast track legislation and Project Aqua at a hearing in Parliament today. More >>
No Cats Allowed; MAF Tightens Sea Container Rules
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 5:12 pm | Forest And Bird
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has tightened the rules for on-line accreditation for sea container inspectors following Forest and Bird's online accreditation of a cat in just 8 minutes. Forest and Bird welcomes the changes, but more is needed ... More >>
Remarkables Mountain Lodge would be a travesty
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 4:08 pm | Forest And Bird
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society is horrified over a proposal to establish a private mountain lodge in the heart of the proposed Remarkables Conservation Park. More >>
Oil Spill Reinforces Need For Ban On Big Ships
Monday, 9 February 2004, 5:54 pm | Forest And Bird
Sunday's oil spill in Milford Sound is proof that a recent decision to ban large ships from Doubtful Sound was necessary according to conservationists. More >>
Prime Minister to farewell Albatross Voyage
Friday, 23 January 2004, 2:11 pm | Forest And Bird
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will tomorrow farewell John Ridgeway's Albatross Voyage as it starts the New Zealand to Falklands leg of its round the world voyage. Helen Clark will farewell the boat at 11.45am, Saturday 24 January, Jetty A, Chaffers ... More >>
Urgent Thar Cull Needed On Pastoral Lease Lands
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 5:44 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird is calling for an urgent aerial cull to reduce Himalayan thar numbers on pastoral leases in the South Canterbury high country. More >>
Claims About High Country Privatisation By Eckhoff
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:46 pm | Forest And Bird
Mr Eckhoff today released a media statement about the privatisation of 35km of Lake Wanaka's shore attacking Forest and Bird. The following statement is Forest and Bird's response: More >>
Biodiversity Report Wake Up Call For NZ
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:35 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird is calling the Government's annual Biodiversity Strategy report a wake-up call for New Zealand. The report reveals that not enough is being done to stem the loss of native plants and animals. More >>
Waitaki legislation not needed.
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 5:35 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest and Bird urged Parliamentarians to reject the Waitaki legislation tabled in Parliament today unless the Government can prove a combination of a National Policy Statement on water and national minimum river flow standards was not a feasible alternative. More >>
35 km Wanaka Lakeshore frontage to be privatised
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 4:58 pm | Forest And Bird
Proposals to freehold some 35km of land fronting onto Lake Wanaka including The Peninsula on Mt Burke Station represents a failure of the Government’s tenure review programme, according to the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
