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Duck And Plover! Bird Election Swoops-In Next Monday
Sunday, 25 October 2020, 2:11 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird’s annual Bird of the Year/Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau begins 9:00 am Monday, 2 November. Forest & Bird is asking New Zealanders to vote for their five favourite native birds in an annual competition that aims to raise ... More >>
World Fails To Meet Any Biodiversity Targets For Birds
Thursday, 1 October 2020, 9:45 am | Forest And Bird
An international report says the world has failed to meet any of its 2020 biodiversity targets for birds. The Aichi targets were set in 2010 at a meeting of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan. The BirdLife International report ... More >>
Forest & Bird Series: The Scientific Dilemmas Of Climate Change: Where Are We Now And What Is A NET?
Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 7:22 pm | Forest And Bird
The Scientific Dilemmas of Climate Change: where are we now and what is a NET? Roger Davies is Professor of Climate Physics at the University of Auckland. This talk will start with an objective overview of climate change and where it appears to be heading. ... More >>
Observer Photos Show Destruction Of Deep Sea Coral
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 7:02 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has released photos obtained through the Official Information Act of 29 species of coral fished up from the ocean floor around New Zealand in the last 18 months. Link to coral images here. "These incredible photos show the ... More >>
Bird Of The Year Is Ready For Take Off!
Friday, 25 September 2020, 9:43 am | Forest And Bird
New Zealanders are getting ready to campaign and vote for their favorite native birds in the nation's most popular annual bird contest. Forest & Bird's Bird of the Year 2020 will spread its wings for lift off on 2 November 2020. Voting closes ... More >>
All Parties Urged To Match Green's Agricultural Policy
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 12:10 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the Green Party’s Farming for the Future policy, released today, is the kind of economic transformation all political parties should be offering as part of New Zealand’s COVID recovery. Forest & Bird has been calling ... More >>
Stewardship Land Is Conservation Land
Friday, 11 September 2020, 11:23 am | Forest And Bird
Following comments by the Prime Minister about the part of the public conservation estate known as stewardship land, Forest & Bird is rereleasing a report on value of conservation stewardship land, available here . Stewardship land is conservation ... More >>
New Protection For Mackenzie Drylands A Welcome Start
Saturday, 5 September 2020, 12:03 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming new protected areas as a starting point for improving protection of the Mackenzie Basin, but lamenting the vast areas which remain unprotected. "If you look at the map of Tū Te Rakiwhānoa Drylands , it's clear too much ... More >>
Cameras On Boats Must Now Happen
Friday, 4 September 2020, 11:55 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird welcomes this morning's announcement that the Government intends to put cameras on boats on over 300 commercial fishing boats, but warns that the industry and Government needs to get on with job. The Fisheries Minister ... More >>
Nature Not Prioritised In National's Conservation Policy
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 5:05 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is urging the National Party to rethink many of its conservation policies, which will let pests run rampant on conservation land, allow grazing in precious high country areas supposed to protect native species, ... More >>
Parties Must Declare Stance On Mining On Conservation Land
Friday, 7 August 2020, 12:22 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is calling for all political parties to back an end to mining conservation land, after a permit was issued to mine the home of a critically-endangered native animal. This week Oceana Gold was granted a 40-year mining permit from the ... More >>
New Zealand Rivers Need Further Freshwater Improvements
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 4:48 pm | Forest And Bird
Most of our rivers, lakes, and wetlands have better protection from new freshwater rules announced today, but a few key omissions leave our fresh water at risk. "This is better protection than our rivers have ever had, but it is still piecemeal, ... More >>
New Law Risks Ongoing High Country Loss
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 1:01 pm | Forest And Bird
A new Bill before Parliament needs to be strengthened before it can stop long-term biodiversity loss on New Zealand’s nationally-treasured high country landscapes, says Forest & Bird. The Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill, due for its first ... More >>
Tarakihi Overfishing Goes To High Court
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 9:34 am | Forest And Bird
Fisheries NZ Minister Stuart Nash’s 2019 decision to allow East Coast tarakihi stocks to remain overfished for the next 25 years is not environmentally sustainable or legal, Forest & Bird will argue in the Wellington High Court from July ... More >>
National Park Plan Breaches Proper Process
Friday, 17 July 2020, 1:24 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird and Federated Mountain Clubs are taking court action over management of Paparoa National Park. The judicial review filed in the High Court yesterday challenges a New Zealand Conservation Authority decision to approve the ... More >>
Too Many Tahr, High Court Says
Saturday, 11 July 2020, 4:38 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is pleased Friday’s High Court ruling on the introduced tahr population control is clear - Himalayan tahr must be reduced to 10,000 animals, removed entirely from National Parks, and the Department of Conservation (DOC) can ... More >>
Forest & Bird Supports Primary Sector Vision
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 1:02 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird welcomes a new sustainable vision for the primary sector, but says it needs to be backed up with strong rules, meaningful support, and a change of attitude from industry laggards. The Government has released a report outlining ... More >>
Loopholes Remain In Māui And Hector's Dolphin Protection
Wednesday, 24 June 2020, 3:44 pm | Forest And Bird
The Government has listened to public demands to save Māui and Hector’s dolphins, but loopholes remain in the Threat Management Plan announced today. Forest & Bird is welcoming significantly greater restrictions on fishing methods that threaten ... More >>
Court action over legality of tahr plan
Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 9:47 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is seeking a declaration from the High Court that an operational plan to control tahr is illegal, and fails to meet the requirements for national parks and wilderness areas. More >>
Fast-track Bill Must Protect Nature
Monday, 22 June 2020, 4:48 pm | Forest And Bird
Without change, the RMA fast-track bill will sacrifice environmental protection to speed up projects which may not even help with the economic recovery, Forest & Bird told the Environment Select Committee today. However, the organisation says ... More >>
