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Flawed fast-track bill silences impacted communities

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The Fast-track Approvals Bill is back from select committee and Forest & Bird is alarmed that the purpose for the legislation is to enable coal and gold to be dug up, the seabed to be mined and rivers to be dammed with little or no regard for the en

Arthur Harper: old-school naturalist

 

Lawyer, explorer, businessman, and conservationist, Arthur Harper served as the Society’s president from 1948 for seven years, remaining an active advocate until his death in May 1955, one month shy of his ninetieth birthday.

Force of Nature book published

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Read about the people who stood up for New Zealand nature over the past 100 years. You may well know some of them! By Caroline Wood

Stocking the eDNA library for freshwater invertebrates

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Ruby Moore, freshwater ecologist and Entomology Collection Manager at the Auckland Museum, has a particular interest in the streams and waterways around the Auckland region.  During her career, sh

November Talk - Seals

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Jody Weir will be talking about fur seals in Kaikoura

October Talk - Kea Conservation Trust

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The talk is at 7.30pm on Thursday 17th October at Blenheim School Hall, Seymour St.

Forest & Bird in the media on fast-track

OceanaGold’s Waihī North Project included in fast-tracked projects listFast-track housing in flood risk areas (RNZ)$500,000 in donations associated with fast-track projects (RNZ)Let's play Tour of New Zealand: Fast track edition (Spinoff)Fast-track approva

Fast-track list reveal is a dark day for democracy

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Parliament’s Environment Committee must delay reporting back on the Fast-track Approvals Bill until it has time to properly consider the proposed projects, says Forest & Bird. 

Tell the Environment Committee to pause Fast-track

THIS FORM IS NOW CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS.

To Government members of the Environment Committee: 
Scott Simpson (National MP), Mike Butterick (National MP), Katie Nimon (National MP), Simon Court (ACT MP), Hamish Campbell (National MP),

Finding our stories: adventures in the archives

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by Michael Pringle

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