Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Black Robin & Actress, Lisa Chapell. Dear Mum and Dad, I need your help. Cousin Bob just ran off with the love of my life – Cousin Sarah and I’m desperate to get her back. Can you talk to God for me? I thought since you were in heaven, it […]

Blogger: Campaign Managers for the kākā: ZEALANDIA ecosanctuary and Forest & Bird’s Conservation Advocate Nic Vallance. Kākā are making a comeback and the world is a better place for it. You just can’t stay grumpy when you’re watching a bunch of them playing in the trees. Go on, try it.      Good looking, smart, great […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Ruru & Leader of the Labour Party, Phill Goff Okay so a group of tui is an ecstasy. I get that. Actually I like that. But there’s no way I’m barracking for that big ego-ed, Matt Preston of a bird. Hell no. The ruru is my avian hero. And appropriately […]

Guest blogger: Forest & Bird’s Conservation Advocate Quentin Duthie The Government is sharpening bulldozer blades and oil-rig drills. It’s prioritising digging and drilling for non-renewable resources over regulation and protection of the natural environment that our economy depends on. Undeterred by the embarrassing u-turn on Schedule 4, Minister Brownlee is charging ahead with efforts to facilitate […]

Guest blogger: Forest & Bird’s conservation advocate Quentin Duthie Forest & Bird is concerned about a proposed “Game Animal Council” that would take over management of four of the largest and most tasty pest animals in New Zealand – deer, pigs, thar and chamois.  We think it’s essential that management of these pest animals and […]

Blogger: Forest & Bird conservation advocate Quentin Duthie There’s an old saying that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It’s sort of true with mining in Schedule 4 lands too. To stretch the metaphor to the case of Schedule 4 mining, getting the ‘bird’ buried under the bush will mean […]

Guest blogger – Photographer, Tom Marshall A comment my colleague and I often get as New Zealand photographers is ‘you must have had a wonderful time in Antarctica’. As much as I’d love to say ‘yes, it was awesome, but a bit chilly’, the truth is we’ve never set foot south of Dunedin and people […]

As we wage war on our possums, stoats, rats to save our precious feathered friends, lets think of our Aussie counterparts, who are battling the menace that is the cane toad (Bufo Marinus).   Plucked from Hawaii and transported to Australia, these toads were used in agricultural pest control to wipe out cane beetles in […]

Guest blogger:  Inaugural 2008 Pest-buster Winner, Bob Walkington. To win the pest buster award means we have a pest problem. To lose the award I would say we are gaining ground over pests. My pest busting ‘career’ began 5 years ago, and I’ve realised to be a good trapper you need to go the extra […]