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Over 20,000 people have turned out in Auckland today for the March for Nature to protest the Luxon Government’s fast-track bill and ‘war on nature’. The march is leaving Aotea Square now for Britomart and was streamed on Facebook.

The only major new ‘environmental’ spend in the Government’s 2024 budget is a $92 million commitment to attack the country’s environment, Forest & Bird says. 

The notion of killing cats to safeguard native birds is not new among conservationists and was as deeply ingrained in the inter-war period as it is today. By Anton Sveding

Old podocarp forest stands alongside rare native plant collections cared for by gardeners, conservation scientists, and community volunteers at Wellington’s Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush. By Kathy Ombler

Renewable energy developments need to be located in the right place and shouldn’t lead to further biodiversity loss. By Lynn Freeman

Snails may not have the reputation of dinosaurs, but geologists knew there was something special about the fossils recently unearthed in Auckland. By Ursula Cochran

A new Government mining strategy will take New Zealand backwards on climate change and drive native plants and animals to extinction, says Forest & Bird.

A mining company that lobbied Resources Minister Shane Jones and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop to be fast-tracked has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 in court costs. 

Forest & Bird, Greenpeace, Communities Against Fast Track (CAFT), Coromandel Watchdog, WWF-New Zealand, and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining have announced a ‘March for Nature’ on June 8 down Queen Street in Auckland to protest the Fast-Track Approvals B

Forest & Bird told Parliament’s Environment Committee that the Fast-track Approvals Bill should be withdrawn, when the Society appeared before select committee members today.   

On Thursday March 28 Forest & Bird lodged an application for judicial review of an agreement between the Director General of Conservation and the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation.

Alex Stone looks at the challenges ahead for conservation as we head into 2024 with a new government and an uncertain climate future. Part 4 of 4.

Visual communication designer Magnolia Wild has been inspired by the beauty of nature since she was four years old.

The new coalition government will lead to the loss of more taonga species. Why can’t our decisionmakers see the wood for the trees? By Teall Crossen

A constructed wetland was highly effective at cleaning up freshwater, absorbing up to 80% of key farm pollutants in a four-year NIWA study. By Andrea Rush

Forest & Bird is demanding an extension to submissions on the contentious Fast-track Approvals Bill, after successfully asking the Ombudsman to investigate a lack of transparency over who was lobbying to have their projects fast-tracked. 

Forest & Bird's official submission on the Fast-track Approvals Bill - 18 April 2024

Forest & Bird warns the Fast-track Approvals Bill poses significant risks to the environment, to local communities, to democracy and to future generations of Kiwis.  This is the premise of its submission to the Select Committee.

The Government’s proposal to increase environmentally destructive coal mining in wetlands and areas of significant biodiversity shows a flagrant disregard for nature and a safe climate, says Forest & Bird. 

Forest & Bird is warning of long-term consequences for nature and the economy following today’s announcement of 131 proposed jobs losses at DOC.

Is this really about fast-track development?  

Forest & Bird condemns the Government decision to torpedo the creation of the Kermadec Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary, saying it is a major blow to global efforts to protect the ocean, and to the legacy of former Prime Minister Sir John Key who champion

In Rachel House’s directorial debut, The Mountain follows the story of a young girl who feels disconnected from her Māori heritage.

Hon Chris Bishop 
Minister for RMA Reform 

15 March 2024 

Tēnā koe Minister Bishop,  

What can mātauranga Māori teach us about caring for local waterways? Jazmine Ropner enrols in a free nationwide course to find out.

Shore plovers are one of the world’s rarest shorebirds and need a huge helping hand to survive. By Peter Lo and Helen Jonas. Images Peter Lo.

Alex Stone looks at the challenges ahead for conservation as we head into 2024 with a new government and an uncertain climate future. Part 3 of 4.

A new sweeping fast-track approvals bill being tabled in parliament today is anti-nature, anti-democracy, and will leave a mess for future governments to clean up, says Forest & Bird. 

A long-running court battle against a new opencast coal mine has been abandoned by the mining company today, but environmentalists are putting celebrations on hold.  

Forest & Bird is calling on Penny Simmonds and Simon Watts – the respective ministers for the environment and climate change – to take action and pass the National Policy Statement on Natural Hazard Decision Making (NPS-NHD) to help protect communit

Joint press release from Environmental Defence Society, WWF-New Zealand, Greenpeace Aotearoa, Forest & Bird

Alex Stone looks at the challenges ahead for conservation as we head into 2024 with a new government and an uncertain climate future. Part 2 of 4.

Four years ago, Silvia Pinca embarked on an ambitious project to almost single-handedly rewild a freshly logged pine forest. This is her story.

After being locally extinct for more than a century, kiwi first returned to Wellington in 2000. How are they doing today? Alan Peck investigates.

Amber Cayley and Samuel Salisbury have taken on the mantle of co-leaders for the new Taranaki Forest & Bird Youth hub.