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The modification of rivers for flood management, irrigation, and agriculture has resulted in a decline in the geomorphic condition and habitat quality of river systems.

Forest & Bird is relieved that an urgent court order has been granted to protect a highly significant ecosystem at Kaitorete, a narrow stretch of ecologically significant land between Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere and the sea.
 

This isn’t a walk in the park, I reflect, as I struggle to keep on my feet while scrambling up

The Ministry for the Environment's (MFE) latest report on fresh water warns that without rapid change in how we treat our environment, New Zealand's identity, wellbeing, cultural values, and economy are at risk (Pg 14).

We need nature, and nature needs us to make a change for the better.

Agricultural leaders calling for environmental rules to be ditched in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic are not only putting environmental health at risk, but public health too, says Forest & Bird.

The New Zealand Bird Atlas 2019–2024 is an ambitious five-year initiative to map the country’s unique birdl

NGOs urge a green COVID-19 recovery 

I was brimming with anticipation when four of us set off to check bat traps before da

Forest & Bird is celebrating a Court of Appeal decision this afternoon that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) was wrong to rubber-stamp a proposal to mine the sea floor off the Taranaki Coast.

As native forests warm, ship rats will move into new areas. Lynley Hargreaves investigates what that will mean for New Zealand’s most precious “deep endemics” such as mohua and kiwi.

The fungi fun quiz featured in the Autumn 2019 issue of the Forest & Bird magazine.  Sign up as a Forest & Bird member to receive your copy (in print or digital). 

Nearly 8,000 individuals made a submission calling for the introduction of a catch limit, fishing licence, and data collection to the whitebait fishery, through a Forest & Bird online submission page.  

No kōkako chicks survived in four monitored nests this summer at Forest & Bird’s Ark in the Park in the Waitakere Ranges.

Forest & Bird has expressed deep horror and sadness that kauri dieback has been confirmed in Puketi Forest, and are demanding the government fund and implement the stalled National Pest Management Plan for kauri dieback.

Forest & Bird is urging the Government is take action to save some of New Zealand's most loved animals, Māui and Hector's dolphins, from extinction. 

Forest & Bird has released a series of before and after satellite images showing some of the thousands of hectares of native habitat cleared across the country in recent years.

Forest & Bird has sent a letter to the Prime Minister, and other Government Ministers, asking for increased funding for essential wilding pine control.
 

Auckland's rare bats could get a badly needed boost if a government plan to strengthen environmental policy goes through, says Forest & Bird.

Summary of Forest & Bird's submission to Department of Conservation on whitebait management:

New Zealand’s six whitebait species are at risk. If something urgent is not done to conserve these species, they could be lost forever.

Barry Coates explains how his new charity Mindful Money is helping New Zealanders choose KiwiSaver funds that are good for nature as well as their retirement nest egg.

Forest & Bird has presented government ministers Stuart Nash and Eugenie Sage with a 10,481-signature petition, and over 3000 individual submissions calling for an end to the commercial fishing practices the government estimates kill up to 14,400 se

Joint statement from Forest & Bird and National Wetland Trust

Forest & Bird says it is a national disgrace that authorities continue green-lighting Bathurst Resources' coal mining activities, despite the company being a repeat environmental offender.
 

Commercial long-line fishers appear to be failing to report bycatch the vast majority of the time, says Forest & Bird.

Giant seabirds will be created in the sands of Wellington this Friday, January 24, to raise awareness of endangered seabirds around New Zealand. 
 

Giant seabirds will be created in the sand at Long Bay Regional Park this Sunday, January 19, to raise awareness of endangered seabirds around Auckland’s coasts.
 

Endangered seabirds will continue to die under weak new regulations for commercial longline fishing, Forest & Bird says. 

Forest & Bird is calling on New Zealanders to demand better regulations for the endangered native fish that make up the whitebait catch. 

New research points to fishing bycatch as a major cause of the alarming decline of Antipodean albatrosses.

Forest & Bird has declared 2020 the year of the seabird, saying this is the year New Zealanders have a chance to turn things around for more than 35 species of struggling native seabird that were captured by fishing boats last year.

Fisheries NZ Minister Stuart Nash’s decision to allow tarakihi stocks to remain overfished for the next 25 years is not environmentally sustainable, and Forest & Bird is seeking a judicial review of the decision.
 

Award-winning advertising agency Colenso BBDO has been working with Forest & Bird on a new predator-free poster campaign.