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Forest & Bird highlights Key’s funding contradiction
May 13, 2010
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird believes Prime Minister John Key should match the funding boost to the tourism industry with ...
Forest & Bird applauds new Oteake Conservation Park
May 13, 2010
Forest & Bird welcomes the opening of the new Oteake Conservation Park in Central Otago today by Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson.
Forest & Bird backs better coastal planning
May 6, 2010
Forest & Bird calls on the Minister of Conservation to better protect New Zealand’s coastline by following up on a report the Government ...
Forest & Bird calls for tenure review halt to protect native plants and animals
May 5, 2010
Forest & Bird is calling for a halt to farm tenure review in the Mackenzie Basin, after a Landcare Research report said intensive farming in the ...
Forest & Bird to appeal Mokihinui dam
April 27, 2010
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird has lodged an appeal against the massive dam Meridian Energy wants to build on the pristine ...
Forest & Bird finds more mining plans on Government website
April 26, 2010
Forest & Bird has discovered Government plans to mine even more national park areas than Ministers announced to the public in March.
Forest & Bird backs PCE call for greater environmental scrutiny
April 22, 2010
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird backs the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s call for more robust and independent ...
Forest & Bird uncovers Government plan to push irrigation
April 21, 2010
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is concerned that Government papers it obtained reveal the Government had longstanding plans ...
Mining march announced for 1st May in Auckland
April 13, 2010
A coalition of environment groups including Greenpeace, ECO and Forest & Bird have announced a public march against the Government’s ...
Forest & Bird damns Mokihinui decision
April 6, 2010
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird is astounded at the decision to destroy the West Coast’s Mokihinui River by building a hydro dam.