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Forest and Bird smiling after Cabinet announcement
Thursday, 9 December 1999, 3:44 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Conservationists are smiling after the announcement of Cabinet portfolios today. Forest and Bird's conservation director, Kevin Smith, said Helen Clark and Jim Anderton had given the new government a flying start on the environment front, allocating ... More >>
Native Forest Sale Breach of Forest Accord
Thursday, 2 December 1999, 4:27 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The sale of 11,000 hectares of native forest by Carter Holt Harvey has been harshly criticised by conservationists. More >>
Election result great news for forest conservation
Sunday, 28 November 1999, 6:31 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Conservationists are delighted with the election outcome as they claim it gives the Labour/Alliance coalition a mandate to end the logging of West Coast rainforests by Timberlands West Coast. More >>
National Commitment to Kiwi Welcomed
Friday, 19 November 1999, 3:43 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
National's election commitment to the establishment of five kiwi zones has been welcomed by the Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
Nats/ACT Asked To Justify $6m Timberlands Subsidy
Friday, 19 November 1999, 11:22 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The logging of West Coast rimu forests by Timberlands is being subsidised to the extent of nearly $6 million a year claims the Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
National Rejects Upton's Biodiversity Strategy
Tuesday, 16 November 1999, 9:21 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The National Cabinet has rejected a proposed New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy promoted by National's Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Environment Minister Simon Upton, according to conservationists. More >>
NZ challenged to follow Aussies on Marine reserves
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 4:01 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today challenged all political parties to follow the lead of the Australian Government and protect significant areas of the New Zealand exclusive economic zone (EEZ). More >>
Government Sells Out Again on Native Forests
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 10:09 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society is calling on the Government to keep in public ownership three native forest areas on the Mamaku plateau, near Rotorua. The forests belong to the Crown-owned Forest Research Institute which is abandoning ... More >>
Whakapapa Upgrade Inappropriate Luxury
Wednesday, 3 November 1999, 4:38 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Conservationists have described the $800,000 expansion of the Tongariro National Park Whakapapa Visitors' Centre as a luxury conservation can ill afford. More >>
Forest Protection Funds Gutted for Stewart Island
Friday, 29 October 1999, 2:03 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Critical opportunities for nature protection on private land could be lost over the next three years because of the Government's recent expensive forest protection deal for Stewart Island Maori land, according to conservationists. More >>
Labour fishing policy unclear on fishing industry
Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 3:07 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today called on Labour to come clean on whether it supported the Government's push for greater fishing industry control of fisheries management. More >>
Action needed to secure future of migratory birds
Monday, 18 October 1999, 1:18 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
An action plan to secure the future of New Zealand's migratory seabirds was presented to the Welcome Back the Birds gathering at Miranda near Thames on Sunday. More >>
Oceans Pillage Conference Planned
Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 8:14 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Environmentalists bearing ninety-three skeletons and seven live fish will greet Jenny Shipley and other Oceans conference goers when they arrive for the conference Oceans Opportunities - The Next Great Economic Frontier at Te Papa in Wellington on Tuesday. More >>
Focus on energy efficiency & conservation welcomed
Friday, 8 October 1999, 5:06 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today welcomed the emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation in Labour's Energy Policy. More >>
NZ Must Act To Help Stop Environmental Catastrophe
Thursday, 23 September 1999, 12:23 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today called on all political parties to make commitments to protect the environment in the light of a United Nations report that time is fast running out to prevent global environmental catastrophe. More >>
Criticisms Of Orange Roughy Claims Rejected
Friday, 17 September 1999, 11:22 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today rejected claims by the Minister of Fisheries and the fishing industry that orange roughy was sustainably managed. More >>
Society Support US Grocery Ban On Orange Roughy
Thursday, 16 September 1999, 12:18 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Forest and Bird Protection Society today welcomed the decision of a major United States grocery chain, Wild Oats, not to stock orange roughy due to the plummeting levels of the fish More >>
Freer Trade Threatens World Economy, Ecology
Tuesday, 14 September 1999, 11:31 am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Conservationists claim trade liberalisation will lead to an explosive increase in alien pests, weeds and diseases unless accompanied by a major upgrade of world biosecurity regimes. More >>
Coast Benefits From $68 Million Asset Windfall
Monday, 13 September 1999, 2:48 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
Critics of Labour’s indigenous forests policy have studiously ignored the $68 million asset windfall which the policy delivers to the West Coast community and potential additional gains from tourism related jobs say conservationists. More >>
New Zealand Guilty of Double Standard on Subsidies
Friday, 10 September 1999, 4:16 pm | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society
The Government's fierce defence of the subsidised logging of West Coast native forests is at odds with New Zealand's opposition at APEC to agricultural and forestry subsidies, according to the Forest and Bird Protection Society. More >>
