By Ellen Ozarka (Forest & Bird coms intern) “Where’s the track?” I thought to myself as we reached the end of the beach. My presumptive question was answered when I looked up to see Graeme scaling the grassy slope which appeared to loom over my head. There was no track, just a vague line of […]

If it’s not clear why a Government announcement of ‘no new mines on conservation land’ could be almost immediately followed by a story about a ‘mine granted consent on conservation land’, read on. The simple answer is that the proposed Te Kuha opencast coal mine near Westport has just been granted resource consent from the […]