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Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society - Latest News [Page 19]
Hector’s Dolphins – Saved From Extinction
Thursday, 16 August 2001, 12:29 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird congratulates the Minister of Fisheries, Pete Hodgson and the Minister of Conservation, Sandra Lee, on their initiative to save the North Island Hector’s dolphins. More >>
MFAT Needs Lesson On Biosecurity
Tuesday, 14 August 2001, 10:20 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Trade agreements must take better account of environmental issues, particularly imports of unwanted pests, says Forest and Bird. More >>
Dairy Needs To Do More To Clean Up Its Act
Tuesday, 14 August 2001, 12:59 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird welcomes the dairy industry’s guidelines for environmental management but says the industry needs to do more to clean up its act. More >>
Environmental Mismanagement On Lakes Station
Thursday, 9 August 2001, 4:31 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Another incidence of environmental mismanagement on Lakes Station in the heart of Lake Sumner Forest Park is an appalling way to mark Conservation Week, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society says. More >>
Water Pollution Problems Likely From Gold Mine
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 2:23 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Inadequate information about mine design mean that water pollution problems from a proposed Reefton gold mine cannot be properly assessed, according to reports obtained under the Official Information Act by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
Children Write In Support Of Hector’s Dolphin
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 2:20 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Members of the Forest and Bird’s Kiwi Conservation Club today presented their letters supporting more action to protect Hector’s dolphin to the Minister of Conservation, Sandra Lee. More >>
1080 Operation In Blue Mountains
Monday, 6 August 2001, 12:34 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird says that the decision by the Animal Health Board to proceed with a 1080 possum control drop in the Blue Mountains (Southland) is the right one. More >>
Call To Save Lake Pearson’s Grebes
Friday, 3 August 2001, 12:37 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is calling for the Lake Pearson/Moana Rua Advisory Committee to be wound up. The Committee made almost no progress in developing rules controlling motorboat use needed to save the endangered grebes. There are only around 250 southern ... More >>
Government Should Rethink Electricity Model
Friday, 27 July 2001, 2:37 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird says that the Government should consider re-integrating the electricity generation system to improve environmental outcomes and the efficiency of energy production. More >>
Council Fails To Control Indigenous Logging
Monday, 23 July 2001, 11:33 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The "Forever Beech" logging controversy highlights the problems caused by inadequate controls on logging indigenous forest on private land, the Forest and Bird Protection Society says. More >>
Freeholding Of Alpine Land Unacceptable
Wednesday, 18 July 2001, 3:52 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Proposals to freehold alpine land on top of the Hector Mountains near Queenstown have attracted considerable public opposition. More >>
Cat Policy Adopted By Forest And Bird
Friday, 29 June 2001, 12:31 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird adopted a Cat Policy at its recent June Council Meeting in Wellington. Feral cats are a real threat to many native bird species. More >>
Status Of Orange Roughy Fisheries Not Positive
Wednesday, 27 June 2001, 2:21 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society said that further cuts in orange roughy catches will be needed this year and probably in future years. Some populations are now as low as 3 percent of what they were in 1980. More >>
Albatross And Petrels Agreement Welcomed
Tuesday, 19 June 2001, 4:24 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society welcomed today's signing in Canberra of the international Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. More >>
Environmental Challenge To “Global Co”
Tuesday, 19 June 2001, 2:09 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird challenges the dairy mega company, “Global Co”, to improve the environmental performance of the dairy industry in New Zealand. More >>
Impacts On Lowland Streams Affect Whitebait
Tuesday, 5 June 2001, 3:16 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird calls on the dairy industry to clean up lowland streams to help protect whitebait. More >>
Macraes Mine Would Impose Large Costs
Tuesday, 22 May 2001, 9:48 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Declining GRD Macraes Ltd mining access to Victoria Forest Park would safeguard the Crown against ongoing liability for New Zealand's biggest toxic waste site, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society says. More >>
Seamount Protection Welcomed
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 3:18 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today welcomed the implementation of measures to protect 19 seamounts from trawling. More >>
Let’s Choose The Kiwi Over The Ferret!
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 2:18 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Forest and Bird is calling on the Minister of Conservation to ban the keeping of ferrets as pets in New Zealand. More >>
Establishment Of Rakiura National Park
Friday, 11 May 2001, 2:34 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
“A great day for New Zealand conservation - Forest and Bird congratulates this Government and previous Governments for their work to create this national park, New Zealand’s 14th national park” said Mr Chapple, President of Forest and Bird. More >>
