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Hairy Seaweed Crabs: the next fashion trend?

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Join Youth Editor Jasmine Starr as she rediscovers decorator crabs in Aotearoa New Zealand and how seaweed should be the latest fashion trend. But no matter how pretty you look, camouflage is the goal, especially when there's a big, scary, cannibalistic predator looking for you. The Hairy Seaweed Crab - Forest & Bird Youth Creature Feature, June 2025.

Weak environmental standards threaten nature and communities

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New Zealand’s environment and communities will face greater pollution, increased biodiversity loss and environmental damage, with a long-term cost to the economy, if today’s Government rollbacks come into effect. 

No nature, no economy: Budget 2025 misses the $133b point

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Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society. 

Restoring wild kiwi to Wellington’s back yard

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Forest & Bird Wellington Branch are excited that Paul Ward, Founder, and Project Lead of the Capital Kiwi Project and Jeff Hall, Field Services Specialist will update us on their ambitious proj

Forest & Bird's Regional Hui at Tarapuruhi Bushy Park in Whanganui

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Join us on Sunday 15 June for a day of interesting local speakers (from Project Reef South Taranaki and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining to talk about the Taranaki Bight, along with speakers from Wairua Conservation and Horizons Re

Monthly Meeting: Peter and Michelle Phipps on the Antarctic environment

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Our speakers at our August meeting are Peter and Michelle Phipps, talking about the Antarctic environment.

Monthly Meeting: Alex Ive, Nelson Marina

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The speaker at our November meeting will be Alex Ive, Assistant Manager of Nelson Marina, talking about the successful management of Nelson Marina.

May Talk - Hutton's Shearwater Update

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The nationally endangered Hutton’s shearwater/Kaikōura tītī (Puffinus huttoni) is the only seabird globally to breed in an alpine environment, with the only two breeding colonies remaining in the Seaward Kaikōura Range in the South Island of New Zealand

Warkworth Area AGM 2025

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Our AGM and June winter talk will be held on Thursday - 5th June, starting at 7.00pm in the Southgate Room, The Oaks (upstairs of Warkworth Hotel), Warkworth. 

Nelson Tasman Annual Report 2025

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