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Forest & Bird has applied to the High Court today for a judicial review of recent changes made to the policy and regulations guiding the protection and management of wetlands in Aotearoa. 

Forest & Bird are saddened to hear that the necropsy of a Hector’s dolphin – which was killed in a net off the Otago Coast at the end of April – has been identified as a female of the 'nationally vulnerable’ species. 

Iwi, environmental groups, and community resilience organisations in Hawke’s Bay are asking all local councils to rethink their approach to climate mitigation in light of the damage Cyclone Gabrielle inflicted on the region. 

There is nothing transformational in the budget, when it comes to protecting New Zealanders’ lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods from climate change and biodiversity loss, Forest & Bird says in response to today's Budget. 

Forest & Bird is today reiterating its call for urgent action to stop new mines on conservation land, after the Prime Minister re-stated Labour’s commitment to the policy. 

Tributes to the life’s work of visionary Forest & Bird founder, Captain Ernest “Val” Sanderson, will be unveiled this weekend in Paekākāriki, where he lived and launched his campaigns to protect nature across the motu. 

Over the past week, Bushy Park Tarapuruhi in Whanganui has welcomed tiny new residents from Taranaki Maunga, thanks to the generosity of local hapū Puketapu, Pukerangiora and Ngāti Tawhirikura, all of the iwi Te Atiawa. 

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