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Is the proposed NZ Battery Project the country’s climate saviour or a potential $4bn white elephant? By Chelsea McGaw, Tom Kay, and Caroline Wood

A Q&A with wetland experts Karen Denyer and Monica Peters, who recently published Life in the Shallows, a new book celebrating the “ecological underdogs” of the natural world.

Yes, it’s back, the most hotly contested avian election on Earth – Forest & Bird’s Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau kicks off on 17 October and runs for two weeks.

Forest & Bird wants the government to introduce a national Cat Management Act with the mandated registration and desexing of pet cats to protect our wildlife. By Amelia Geary

Research student Caitlyn Friedel cried when she first saw goldstripe geckos at Forest & Bird’s Bushy Park Tarapuruhi Sanctuary. Now she is studying them for her Master’s!

Love ‘em or love ‘em – who can resist the lure of the celebrity ‘bird of the year’, the pekapeka?

Certainly not Forest & Bird’s Te Hoiere Pelorus Bat Recovery Project’s Ecological Restoration Field Team.

The Nelson-Tasman Hub is one of Forest & Bird’s newest Youth Hubs with just over 30 youth signed up as volunteers.

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Forest & Bird says all political parties who are serious about climate change and the environment need to support an important new bill to protect public conservation land from new mines.  

Is it feasible to stop using coal in Aotearoa? Don’t we need coking coal to make steel? Our climate team answers your burning questions.

How much coal do we use in New Zealand? 

Forest & Bird today welcomed the release of a draft National Plan of Action on Sharks, which provides a constructive platform for protecting the diversity of sharks that live in Aotearoa New Zealand’s waters. 

Forest & Bird is pleased to see the Government wants to prioritise nature-based solutions in the National Adaptation Plan, released today, saying European heatwaves and South Island flooding is showing the impacts of climate change are already too l

Forest & Bird’s Hauraki Islands and Rotorua branches are recipients of the 2022 annual Branch Award, while Gemma Marnane (Southland) has been awarded the Te Kaiārahi Rangatahi o te Taiao Youth Award.  

Forest & Bird’s appeal against a proposed opencast coal mine will be heard at the Environment Court in Christchurch from next week. 

Forest & Bird is pleased to announce the dates and theme for New Zealand’s most hotly anticipated avian election, Bird of the Year 2022. 

For nearly 25 years, volunteers from Forest & Bird’s Central Otago-Lakes Branch have been looking after an important population of mohua in the ancient beech forests of Makarora.

Gifted to Forest & Bird to stop future development, the Chapman Reserve in Fiordland has an intriguing history. By Michael Pringle

We recently caught up with Greig Brebner, the founder of Blunt Umbrellas, to find out why his company is supporting Forest & Bird’s work.

More than 30 years of volunteer efforts have helped restore the dawn chorus in the Bay of Plenty. by Kate Loman-Smith

The founder of Active Components, Rob Mackley, explains why his company is supporting Forest & Bird’s marine protection work in the Hauraki Gulf.

The family that pioneered New Zealand’s first carbon-positive farm is also kaitiaki to a critically endangered population of lizards. By Caroline Wood.

Forest & Bird will be heard before the High Court in Invercargill on 18-19 July on its application for judicial review of Southland District Council’s decision to grant access for new coal exploration and mining. 

Forest & Bird says ridding Rakiura Stewart Island of introduced predators will be a global game-changer and welcomes the $2.8m research agreement between Manaaki Whenua and Predator Free Rakiura, announced today.    

Forest & Bird says it’s concerning that the Department of Conservation’s Wild Animal Management Framework Te Ara ki Mua fails to mention carbon emissions despite the devastation caused by out-of-control deer and pigs on New Zealand's native forests

Allowing rivers to move rather than engineering them into artificial channels is a nature-friendly way to reduce flooding. By Tom Kay

For the average Kiwi, a play space might bring to mind an area with Lego, balls to kick around, dress-ups and multitude of tiny toys, or a PlayStation. 

On 6 June 2022, one of Forest & Bird’s longest serving committee members received a special award from a nonagenarian celebrating her Platinum Jubilee – a Queen’s Service Medal (QSM). 

Forest & Bird have eight regional conservation managers (RCMs) across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Mining, quarrying and infrastructure projects will be allowed to destroy New Zealand’s rarest and most important native species and habitats if they meet a 'significance test' under a government policy released for consultation today.