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Old Blues Awarded
June 26, 2009
Old Blue awards are named for the Chatham Islands black robin called Old Blue who helped save her species from extinction during the early 1980s.
Forest & Bird AGM - Minister announces climate change consultation
June 26, 2009
Minister for the Environment Nick Smith announced at Forest & Bird’s AGM today that the Government will hold a whirlwind round of ...
Forest & Bird AGM
June 24, 2009
Forest & Bird is holding its annual general meeting in Wellington this week and media are warmly invited to attend:
Forest & Bird on close watch over fishing court case
June 14, 2009
Forest & Bird will be watching closely at the start next week of a court case challenging measures to protect endangered Hector’s dolphins.
Pestbuster team wins Forest & Bird trophy for trapping 530 bird killers
June 11, 2009
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird has awarded its annual Pestbuster prize to Don Sullivan and his team of trappers in Nelson.
Forest & Bird awards Golden Spade to volunteer who planted 2400 plants in a year
June 4, 2009
Forest & Bird’s national Golden Spade winner is W
Don’t turn the Mackenzie Basin green, Forest & Bird warns
May 31, 2009
Forest & Bird fears that irrigation proposed by farmers for the Mackenzie Basin will turn this iconic russet brown tussock landscape into bright ...
Forest & Bird alarmed at protected species killed in coastal fisheries
April 22, 2009
Set nets catch more protected species than previously thought, according to Ministry of Fisheries observer programme results released on the Ministry ...
Forest & Bird slates high country report
April 7, 2009
Forest & Bird is very disappointed that the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s report on high-country tenure review is out of ...
Meridian land swap plan a poor deal
March 31, 2009
Forest & Bird rejects Meridian Energy’s proposed land swap to mitigate its planned destruction of the Mokihinui River on the West Coast.