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Moreporks becoming 'more-porkies' as government

Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 4:44 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"The Government is in cahoots with the Department of Conservation, Animal Health Board and the Regional councils, who are deliberately breaking the laws of New Zealand", said Tony Smart, Spokesperson on 1080 and Animal Control for Outdoor Recreation. More >>

Protecting New Zealand? Yeah right!

Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 10:54 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"Headlines claiming that we are protecting our country are nothing but a crock full of Bureaucratic crap", said Tony Smart who is the1080 and Animal Control Spokesperson for Outdoor Recreation NZ. More >>

Public forced to swallow 1080 propaganda

Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 5:04 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"The pro-1080 propaganda brigade are telling porkies to the public and the media are buying the rubbish", said Tony Smart the1080 and Pest Control Spokesperson for ORNZ. More >>

Conservation groups are conservative with truth

Monday, 24 April 2006, 1:58 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"Why are conservationists misleading impressionable school children and the Public?" asks ORNZ Acting Chair Phil Hoare. More >>

ORNZ gives support to Taranaki Hapu, fishers

Thursday, 30 March 2006, 11:00 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

MEDIA RELEASE Outdoor Recreation NZ 30 March 2006 ORNZ gives support to Taranaki Hapu' and recreational fishers "Ngati te Whiti Hapu’s spokesman Mr Jack Knuckey is absolutely right, there has been bugger all concern for traditional sea food gathering ... More >>

ORNZ and United Future divorce on religious ground

Monday, 27 March 2006, 10:41 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"The Board of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand has terminated its agreement of affiliation with United Future", said Acting Chairman Phil Hoare. More >>

Paul Henry swallows Chris Carter's shark story

Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 9:24 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

"Conservation Minister Chris Carter's 'say everything do nothing' ideas on saving the great white got an unexpected boost today from TV One's talk host Paul Henry simply because he was ignorant of the issues", said John Friend ORNZ Marine Coordinator. More >>

Common sense UF environmental policy

Friday, 3 June 2005, 12:57 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Outdoor Recreation NZ chairman and United Future Taupo candidate Paul Check said he delighted that United Future's environment policy released today again emphasises the need for empirical evidence and not ideology and zealotry as the basis for caring ... More >>

ORNZ questions Nat motives over marine reserves

Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 3:35 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Media statement For immediate release Tuesday, 29 March 2005 ORNZ questions National’s motives over marine reserves More >>

Brash Off target on South Island Tenure Review

Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 5:42 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

A major national recreational body, the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations, says National leader Don Brash is way off target with his criticism of pastoral lease tenure review. Dr Brash told the lessees association, High Country Federated Farmers, ... More >>

ORNZ backs PM on Gallipoli

Friday, 18 February 2005, 10:39 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Outdoor Recreation New Zealand’s Marine Committee Co-ordinator John Friend, a Viet Nam veteran, today congratulated the Prime Minister on her decision not to support the appearance of singer John Farnham at the Gallipoli ceremony. More >>

ORNZ Slams Te Kaha's 'Wet Bus Ticket' Sentence

Friday, 28 January 2005, 4:01 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Outdoor Recreation NZ's Paul Check today slammed the "wet bus ticket" community service sentence handed down to paua-poaching Maori activist Te Kaha, saying that the country's fisheries would continue to be plundered until tougher sentences ... More >>

ORNZ challenges DOC’s alleged science

Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 10:27 am | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

The chairman of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Paul Check, today challenged an assertion by a senior Department of Conservation official that “they [marine reserves] are worth the wait”. More >>

ORNZ chairman accuses DOC of ‘despotic behaviour’

Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 2:14 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Outdoor Recreation NZ Chairman Paul Check today slammed the Department of Conservation for ‘time and time again demonstrating behaviour worthy of a Third World dictatorship’. More >>

Milford Spill - Overkill

Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 3:02 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

Conservation Minister Chris Carter’s “shoot from the hip” reaction to the potentially disastrous Diesel spill in the Milford Sounds may be a “Freudian slip” which goes some way towards revealing the high handed “lock it up” approach the Minister has ... More >>

ORNZ leader: Greens wrong as usual

Monday, 24 November 2003, 2:23 pm | Outdoor Recreation New Zealand

The Council chairman of Outdoor Recreation New Zealand, Paul Check, says the attacks on his party by Green co-leader, Rod Donald, are ill-directed and wrong ‘as usual’. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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