On 6 June 2022, one of Forest & Bird’s longest serving committee members received a special award from a nonagenarian celebrating her Platinum Jubilee – a Queen’s Service Medal (QSM).
For the average Kiwi, a play space might bring to mind an area with Lego, balls to kick around, dress-ups and multitude of tiny toys, or a PlayStation.
In this issue, we find out how a “lost” population of critically endangered lizards was recently discovered on a high country station. The owners may be doing more for the planet than any other farmer in New Zealand.
Mining, quarrying and infrastructure projects will be allowed to destroy New Zealand’s rarest and most important native species and habitats if they meet a 'significance test' under a government policy released for consultation today.
Associate Professor Greg Holwell is a naturalist, zoologist and behavioural ecologist in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Forest & Bird says the Government’s announcement today that it will allow coal mining and other industries to destroy remaining wetlands is disastrous for the climate and biodiversity.
