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Spiders play a huge part in keeping our natural world in balance, and their
webs can be works of art.  Ann Graeme. Bryce McQuillan

Farmers, foresters and conservationists are all calling on political parties to commit to controlling the large mobs of browsing pests such as deer, goats, pigs, and wallabies now common across New Zealand.
 

The nation’s favourite election is back, and the stakes are higher than ever before. By Caroline Wood

A version of this story was first published in the Spring 2023 issue of Forest & Bird magazine.

Forest & Bird member Jill Visser set up a volunteer group to restore a former wetland on the Kāpiti Coast because she wanted to take hands-on action to help mitigate climate change.

Forest & Bird is concerned about the risk to endemic Westland petrels from a proposed industrial-scale mining operation south of Punakaiki. By Suzanne Hills, chair of Forest & Bird’s West Coast Branch.

The chief executives of Forest & Bird, WWF-New Zealand and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) are deeply concerned following confirmation last night that National intends to cut the Department of Conservation’s (DOC's) budget by 6.5%.

Forest & Bird has teamed up with 26 New Zealand writers and artists to shine a light on the importance of volunteers working at-place to restore nature for future generations.
 

A booming post-war economy brought many challenges for the men, women, and children attempting to stop the country’s fast-vanishing nature disappearing forever.

Christchurch university student Ella Peoples received Forest & Bird’s 2023 Te Kaiārahi Rangatahi o te Taiao youth award for her leading role in organising conservation projects and growing the Forest & Bird Youth network.

DNA data can give us tools to aid the recovery of yellow-eyed penguins 
on the Aotearoa mainland, but only a change in human behaviour can give 
them a fighting chance of avoiding extinction, as Jane Young explains.

Returning titipounamu to Bushy Park Tarapuruhi was a labour of love, with many working together to provide a safe new home for this tiny taonga.

Forest & Bird is calling on everyone who cares about the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana to tell the Government that no bottom trawling in the marine park is acceptable, after the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries announced the start of consultation on pro

Forest & Bird welcomes a report into kiwi deaths at Cape Sanctuary released today by the Department of Conservation (DOC) but questions why it has taken five years for it to act.

Forest & Bird's national conference was held on 29 July 2023 at Te Papa Tongarewa, Pōneke Wellington.

The theme was Inspiring Bold Leadership in a Time of Crisis and our MC for the day was Jesse Mulligan. 

A Forest & Bird win in the Court of Appeal today sends a clear message that the Government must put science and sustainability first in making fisheries catch limit decisions. 

Forest & Bird’s 99th year of advocating for te taiao was one of its busiest, a reminder that our role is just as relevant now as it was in 1923 when Captain ‘Val’ Sanderson founded the societ

Forest & Bird is calling on all political parties to back legislation to increase protection in the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana, saying the 19 new protected areas are a big step towards a target of protecting 30% of New Zealand’s only marine park. 

On Saturday 29 July 2023, Dame Anne Salmond delivered her Sanderson Lecture at the Sanderson Dinner (following Forest & Bird's Centennial Conference).

More than 75% of indigenous species are at risk of extinction or becoming threatened. What can we do to turn this around? By Caroline Wood

A huge landslide wiped out 20 years of restoration planting, but Dean and Geoff are determined to rebuild their urban “native forest”. By Zoë Brown

On Saturday 29 July 2023, Nicola Toki delivered her State of the Nation address to a room full of delegates at Forest & Bird's Centennial Conference.

Nature-based solutions can help heal the steep hillsides of East Cape and other weather-ravaged communities in Auckland and Hawke’s Bay. By Ann Graeme

Why do we find it hard to kill hedgehogs when they are busy murdering critically endangered birds, lizards, and insects all over Aotearoa? By Chelsea McGaw

Forest & Bird has announced the winners of the organisation's top honours at its awards dinner on Saturday 29 July. These include:

Forget Bird of the Year. In 2023, the stakes are even higher.  

Introducing: Bird of the Century. 

Te Reo o Te Taiao Forest & Bird is issuing a challenge to the nation’s political, business and community leaders to be bold and secure a safer future for all New Zealanders under threat from climate change, at their Centennial Conference this weeken

Forest & Bird is calling on all political parties to say what they will do to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions following the release of data by Statistics New Zealand which shows a small decrease in emissions of 1.8 percent in the Decembe

A Rare Bird coming up for twitchers, conservationists and theatre enthusiasts! 

Feathers and Foliage – an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Forest and Bird – is being held from Tuesday 25 July to Saturday 29 July, at the Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba Street.

A significant and collaborative win for nature is how Forest & Bird describes Aotearoa New Zealand’s finalised National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB), announced by Associate Minister for the Environment (Biodiversity), the Hon

We look at some environmentally friendly ways to attract native birds to your garden while avoiding bad practices that could harm their health. By Dr Daria Erastova

Meet the team behind the hugely popular Critter of the Week show and some of the gnarly creatures it has highlighted. By Mike Dickison

In a nearly 50-year labour of love, Forest & Bird branch members saved an important stand of indigenous bush in South Canterbury. By Lynley Hargreaves

Forest & Bird has lost one of its great stalwarts and tireless workers with the death of Ken Catt QSM in April at the age of 93. By Michael Pringle

Forest & Bird was the first of New Zealand’s modern-day conservation groups, and women were involved from its creation, becoming vice-presidents, honorary secretaries, and executive board members.

Tomorrow, a diverse range of recreational fishing, environmental, law, corporate and business organisations united as the Hauraki Gulf Alliance will deliver a petition calling for bottom trawling, scallop dredging, and Danish seining to be banned from w