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New island sanctuaries great news for native birds
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 3:40 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society welcomed today's announcement by Conservation Minister Chris Carter to create wildlife sanctuaries on two large Fiordland islands. The Government has agreed to fund a $7M pest eradication programme over eight years ... More >>
Water Conservation Order decision applauded
Monday, 10 May 2004, 10:23 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird today welcomed Environment Minister Marian Hobbs' sign-off of the Motueka River Water Conservation Order and commended Fish and Game for negotiating an agreement under the Resource Management Act 1991. More >>
Motu Kaikoura purchase great for Auckland
Friday, 7 May 2004, 3:03 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird today welcomed the purchase of Motu Kaikoura (Kaikoura Island), announced by Conservation Minister Chris Carter. The purchase has been supported by the ASB Trust. More >>
National park protection for Canaan Downs welcomed
Friday, 23 April 2004, 12:37 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Royal Forest and Bird Society today welcomed the Government's announcement that 758ha of the Canaan Downs farm on Takaka Hill has been purchased for protection and addition to the Abel Tasman National Park. More >>
Operation Ark good but where's the money?
Thursday, 15 April 2004, 8:47 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is calling on Conservation Minister Chris Carter to seek new funding for Operation Ark from Cabinet and to declare which conservation projects will be cut to pay for the programme to prevent extinctions of threatened species in South ... More >>
Forest and Bird welcomes Cypress Mine protest
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 2:58 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird today welcomed a student-led occupation of the proposed Happy Valley Cypress coal mine site in the upper Waimangaroa catchment on the West Coast. More >>
Albatross protection plan leaves much in the air
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 1:00 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird welcomes the release of the National Plan of Action for Seabirds (NPOA) which will apply to all seabirds affected by commercial and non-commercial fishing methods, as a step forward for seabird conservation. More >>
Court decision allows more sea lion killing
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 8:37 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Court of Appeal decision to allow the squid trawl fishery to kill more than double the number of threatened New Zealand sea lions is a tragedy for the threatened species, Forest and Bird said today. More >>
Forest and Bird joins global effort to save birds
Monday, 5 April 2004, 9:28 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
24,000 Britons in the last week have signed the Royal Forest and Bird's Protection Society's (Forest and Bird) petition to save the albatross from the impact of illegal fishing. Forest and Bird's Executive resolved this weekend to formally become the ... More >>
Electricity market reforms not RMA to blame
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 10:52 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The attack on the RMA for supposedly holding up large scale electricity projects was misdirected nonsense the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society said today. A number of large-scale energy projects had got resource consent under the RMA. More >>
No new mine for state owned polluter
Friday, 26 March 2004, 3:35 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is sceptical about the reasons for Solid Energy's long overdue confession that its past mining operations at Strongman have caused environmental damage. More >>
Expanded ant surveillance programme needed
Friday, 19 March 2004, 3:48 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is calling for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's ant surveillance programme to be expanded following the discovery of a crazy ant colony in Wellington. More >>
Privileged Position for Mining Should End
Friday, 12 March 2004, 11:06 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is calling on the government to implement its 1999 and 2002 election policy to end mining's privileged position in gaining access to conservation land and implement its election promises to enable public consultation on mining activities. More >>
Report reveals Pike coal mine should not proceed
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:58 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
A Department of Conservation (DoC) report obtained under the Official Information Act reveals that the controversial proposed Pike River coal mine is inconsistent with conservation legislation and would degrade an important and almost pristine ... More >>
Gerry Eckhoff Asleep on the Job?
Monday, 8 March 2004, 9:08 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird's Conservation Manager Mr Kevin Hackwell today asked whether ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff was asleep on the job after Mr Eckhoff wrongly stated that Forest and Bird had been silent on Project Aqua and the Waitaki legislation. More >>
Two Thirds of Maui’s dolphin may get fins bolted
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 9:45 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
An assessment by the Department of Conservation’s (DoC) Science and Research Division indicates that up to two thirds of critically endangered Maui’s dolphin could have tags bolted to their fins following a controversial trial on threatened Hector’s ... More >>
Hector's Dolphin Satellite Tagging: Q&As
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 9:57 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The World Conservation Union - IUCN Specialist group have listed Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) as endangered and the North Island sub-species, Maui's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui), as critically endangered (see www.redlist.org). ... More >>
Minister should cancel putting dolphins at risk
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 9:54 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is urging Conservation Minister Chris Carter to overturn a decision by the Department of Conservation (DOC) that will put endangered Hector's dolphins at unnecessary risk. More >>
Forest and Bird objects to destruction of totara
Monday, 23 February 2004, 8:30 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
A local Whangarei organisation, the Whangarei Native Forest and Bird Protection Society has been reported in the media today for supporting the clearance of totara in Northland. Please note that this organisation is neither the Royal Forest and Bird Protection ... More >>
Family cat gains MAF biosecurity accreditation
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 10:37 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird Conservation Manager Kevin Hackwell's family cat, Bolletje, has successfully gained accreditation to carry out statutory biosecurity checks of sea containers. More >>
