New Zealand’s growing population means we need to generate a lot more power We’ve got to go nuclear If we don’t want more fossil fuel plants then greenies need to look at the big picture and sacrifice a few valleys and hills These are opinions I’ve heard increasingly often in the last few years but […]

Blogger:  Forest & Bird’s Conservation Advocate Quentin Duthie Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee still seems to be suffering from gold fever despite having to swallow a bitter pill when public opinion sank his plans to mine Schedule 4 protected conservation land. The government’s backdown over Schedule 4 was a great victory for the conservation […]

Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Marine Advocate, Karen Baird   Ahoy thereI I am coming to you from the rollicking, rolling hull of the SV FalconGT.   This whole typing business is a one handed affair because I need the other hand to clutch the table while gripping the side of the seat with my thigh! We […]

Blogger:  Forest & Bird’s Lower North Island Field Officer Aalbert Rebergen Avian citizenry in this country is a mind-boggling, byzantine thing – something that is given and then snatched away at the whim of government based on fickle, flimsy criteria. Take for example – the rook – an introduced bird that was brought here to control insects and […]

Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Marine Advocate, Karen Baird I’m part of a group of five scientists and conservationists departing Whangarei on ‘SV FalconGT’ this Sunday to listen out for whale chatter near the Kermadec trench – a deep trench to the far, far north-east of New Zealand.    Physically, the Kermadec trench is defined by an […]

Blogger: North Island Conservation Manager Mark Bellingham Pimping your pavement, guerrilla gardens, nature deficit disorder – everywhere you look there’s a new buzz word to describe city-goers desire to bring the wilds back into their cities. All cities evolve in different ways depending on aesthetic and economic imperatives but sadly across the board, wildlife has […]

Blogger: Forest & Bird’s Conservation Advocate Nic Vallance What an exciting twenty-four hours it has been!!! When the news broke last night I was so shocked and then excited I shed a few happy tears! First let me say a huge THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to all of you who submitted, signed, wrote, shouted, and […]

Blogger: VUW Research Fellow and West Coast Committee Member, Brian Anderson Recently, I attended a renewable energy strategy meeting for the West Coast, on behalf of Forest and Bird. The meeting was sponsored by Development West Coast and came after statements last year from West Coast Regional Council CEO Chris Ingle that council should “explicitly […]

Blogger: Web Manager for Forest & Bird, Mandy Herrick Given their penchant for getting drunk on fermented berries, it comes as no surprise that our kereru is one of our more accident prone birds. In fact,  they get in into so many scrapes that a small hospital has been set up in Dunedin to care for […]