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Forest & Bird has presented a petition at Parliament, requesting the House ensure a select committee has the opportunity to consider the final list of projects for the Fast-track Approvals Bill prior to the bill being reported back to Parliament.
Richard Hursthouse of Auckland’s North Shore has received Forest & Bird’s prestigious Old Blue award for three decades leading and initiating conservation projects in the city and at national level.
Sally Richardson of Warkworth has been awarded Forest & Bird’s prestigious Old Blue award for her outstanding contribution to Forest & Bird and to conservation over more than two decades.
Forest & Bird’s South Canterbury Branch’s commitment to conservation and nature in its region over many years has been honoured with the organisation’s Branch Award.
Forest & Bird’s new President, and the first woman to hold the role in 101 years, is Kate Graeme of Tauranga. Ms Graeme has been deputy President since 2016 and on the board since 2014, and now takes over the President role from Mark Hanger.
Forest & Bird has honoured five long-serving members with the Tī Kouka award for their exceptional service over a long period to the organisation and to conservation in their local and regional areas.
Nate Wilbourne of Brightwater has received Forest & Bird’s Te Kaiārahi Rangatahi o te Taiao Youth Award for Youth Conservation. At 16 years old, Nate has already got an impressive resume as a budding conservationist.
Forest & Bird welcomes the Environment Committee’s unanimous recommendation today that the Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill be passed in its entirety.
Over 20,000 people have turned out in Auckland today for the March for Nature to protest the Luxon Government’s fast-track bill and ‘war on nature’. The march is leaving Aotea Square now for Britomart and was streamed on Facebook.
The only major new ‘environmental’ spend in the Government’s 2024 budget is a $92 million commitment to attack the country’s environment, Forest & Bird says.
A new Government mining strategy will take New Zealand backwards on climate change and drive native plants and animals to extinction, says Forest & Bird.
A mining company that lobbied Resources Minister Shane Jones and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop to be fast-tracked has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 in court costs.
Forest & Bird, Greenpeace, Communities Against Fast Track (CAFT), Coromandel Watchdog, WWF-New Zealand, and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining have announced a ‘March for Nature’ on June 8 down Queen Street in Auckland to protest the Fast-Track Approvals B
Forest & Bird told Parliament’s Environment Committee that the Fast-track Approvals Bill should be withdrawn, when the Society appeared before select committee members today.
On Thursday March 28 Forest & Bird lodged an application for judicial review of an agreement between the Director General of Conservation and the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation.
Forest & Bird is demanding an extension to submissions on the contentious Fast-track Approvals Bill, after successfully asking the Ombudsman to investigate a lack of transparency over who was lobbying to have their projects fast-tracked.
Forest & Bird warns the Fast-track Approvals Bill poses significant risks to the environment, to local communities, to democracy and to future generations of Kiwis. This is the premise of its submission to the Select Committee.
The Government’s proposal to increase environmentally destructive coal mining in wetlands and areas of significant biodiversity shows a flagrant disregard for nature and a safe climate, says Forest & Bird.
Forest & Bird is warning of long-term consequences for nature and the economy following today’s announcement of 131 proposed jobs losses at DOC.
Forest & Bird condemns the Government decision to torpedo the creation of the Kermadec Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary, saying it is a major blow to global efforts to protect the ocean, and to the legacy of former Prime Minister Sir John Key who champion
Hon Chris Bishop Minister for RMA Reform
15 March 2024
Tēnā koe Minister Bishop,
A new sweeping fast-track approvals bill being tabled in parliament today is anti-nature, anti-democracy, and will leave a mess for future governments to clean up, says Forest & Bird.
A long-running court battle against a new opencast coal mine has been abandoned by the mining company today, but environmentalists are putting celebrations on hold.
Forest & Bird is calling on Penny Simmonds and Simon Watts – the respective ministers for the environment and climate change – to take action and pass the National Policy Statement on Natural Hazard Decision Making (NPS-NHD) to help protect communit
Joint press release from Environmental Defence Society, WWF-New Zealand, Greenpeace Aotearoa, Forest & Bird
Forest & Bird has received a letter from Hon Chris Bishop, Minister for Resource Management Reform, setting out government plans for reforms to the resource management process and getting rid of safeguards for freshwater.
Forest & Bird and the Environmental Defence Society are dismayed that the new Government has just rammed through a dramatic assault on Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment.
Forest & Bird is deeply disappointed at a just-released Environment Court decision that paves the way for a 60 hectare landfill to be created at Wayby Valley in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, despite the site being home to many threatened species and hab
Forest & Bird is calling on councils around the country to fix inadequate rules for vehicles on beaches after only one council – Dunedin City – scored the top ranking for protecting coastal species.
Forest & Bird is expressing frustration and disappointment after yesterday’s announcement that Cabinet has agreed to replace the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM).
New Zealand has been dishonoured with the infamous ‘Fossil of the Day’ award at COP28 for the newly formed government’s decision to overturn the existing world-leading ban on new oil and gas exploration.
Bushy Park Tarapuruhi in Whanganui, Ngaheretuku in South Auckland, Atawhai Whenua on Waiheke Island and tāiko Westland petrel breeding grounds on the West Coast are the latest nature sanctuaries to feature in 26 Forest & Bird Centennial.
Forest & Bird today warned that placing the climate change and environment portfolios outside of cabinet is a big risk when New Zealand’s trade with Europe hinges on climate action, Fonterra’s biggest customer is demanding climate action, and commun
The pūteketeke Australasian crested grebe has won Bird of the Century 2023.
Coromandel-based anti-mining group Ours Not Mines is in the High Court today challenging the Hauraki District Council’s decision to give OceanaGold – a large international mining company – access into nationally significant Coromandel public conservatio
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