1Apr 30, 2013
Beneath the water’s surface, in a stream or river near you, a tiny native fish is searching for a rock. It has to be the right size and shape, in the right location in the stream and the right orientation to the current. It also has to be defended from all the other little fish […]
2Apr 29, 2013
New Zealand has joined a worldwide club – a club of countries battling serious forest pathogens. From ash dieback in the UK to the deaths of chestnut trees in North America, elms in Europe and North America, cedar in Oregon, plantation pines in Chile, up to 40% of the native flora of Australia and then […]
3Apr 28, 2013
Restructuring the Department of Conservation (DOC) is a breach of trust with the West Coast. It also betrays all the other remote and rural parts of New Zealand that have small populations but large areas of conservation lands. DOC manages one third of NZ, 8,802,673 hectares, as public conservation land on behalf of all New […]
4Apr 23, 2013
On Friday of last week the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) released a report recommending an immediate cessation of the commercial harvest of the longfin eel, along with the urgent implementation of additional measures to halt the decline of this species. The New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii) has been increasingly in the limelight […]
5Apr 9, 2013
Good Afternoon to the Hon. Dr Nick Smith, How do you place a price on lives that have been saved from tragedy Dr Smith? By taking away the “seat belts in the conservation estate vehicle“. The area and programme managers are the “seatbelts”. The steering wheel may be your mandate, your perception of the “best […]