1Apr 20, 2020
Forest & Bird Youth has written to the Prime Minister, joining many other eNGOs in calling for nature to be a top priority for the Government in the recovery from COVID-19. Right now, New Zealand is facing a public health crisis: COVID-19. This crisis has caused the loss of jobs for many New Zealanders, and […]
2Feb 26, 2020
Why do we need a National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB)? The 2018 State of the Environment report identified we had over 4000 plants and animals in New Zealand at risk of extinction. And despite some doing better under intensive management, many are still quietly slipping away. Our approach needs to change. The Resource […]
3Feb 21, 2018
Forest & Bird’s Regional Conservation Manager Sue Maturin reflects on the government’s review of the ‘General Policy for National Parks’ (General Policy) amid fears the public is being left out of an opportunity to improve one of our country’s most important conservation policies. Next to the National Parks Act, the General Policy is the most important […]
4Jul 18, 2017
New Zealand has more than 3,000 native species heading toward extinction, yet the budget for the government agency tasked with protecting them has been stripped. The most recent 2017/18 budget is providing $12 million less, in real terms, for biodiversity funding. In a time where the environment and native species are in crisis, the government […]
5Jun 16, 2017
Environmentalist, journalist and author, Dave Hansford was recently awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for services to the environment. His recent book, Protecting Paradise, examines the debates surrounding the use of 1080 in New Zealand, and makes the case for urgent intervention to rescue dwindling native wildlife. Laura Keown sat down with him at Forest & Bird’s […]
6Oct 31, 2016
For the last two and a half years Sue Fitchett, a Hauraki Islands Forest & Bird committee member has been collaborating on a brochure with the Waiheke SPCA on how to be a responsible pet owner. Here she tells us more about this often controversial subject. Yes, two and a half years is a long […]
7Oct 5, 2016
If you want to see a badly polluted Canterbury river, take a Sunday drive and have a look at the Selwyn/Waikirikiri River. Just 20 years ago it was clear and swimmable. But now it has become a cess pit, destroyed by run-off from intensive farming and toxic algae. To highlight the ruin of this once […]
8Jan 13, 2016
NZ’s current Marine Reserves Bill is more than 40 years old, and desperately out of date. After promising an update for nearly 15 years, the Government has finally released a discussion draft – which does not include 96% of NZ oceans. That’s right. The entire Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is specifically left out of the draft […]
9Sep 24, 2015
Forest & Bird shares with our Birdlife partners their concern for Keith Davis, an independent fisheries observer, who went missing from a Panamanian-flagged vessel off the coast of Peru around 10 September. Keith Davis worked for MRAG. Keith was last seen aboard the Victoria No. 168 – a transhipment vessel that receives catches from fishing […]