Aotearoa New Zealand needs a nature-based solutions approach to climate change. Forest & Bird urges the Government and decision-makers to prioritise planting, restoring, and protecting native forests as a key climate action.
Forest & Bird’s iconic Bird of the Year competition is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year – two decades of campaigning, squawking, strategising, and sparking real action for our native birds.
Monthly Meeting: Scott Burnett - Denniston plateau
The speaker at our September meeting will be Scott Burnett, Forest and Bird Regional Conservation Manager for Te Tauihu/Top of the South, who is leading the campaign to save one of New Zealand's most significant conservation battles: the fight to save t
Please find Forest & Bird's guidance on writing a submission on the Department of Conservation's Implementation plan for New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy is available below.
Join Youth Editor Jasmine Starr as she rediscovers decorator crabs in Aotearoa New Zealand and how seaweed should be the latest fashion trend. But no matter how pretty you look, camouflage is the goal, especially when there's a big, scary, cannibalistic predator looking for you. The Hairy Seaweed Crab - Forest & Bird Youth Creature Feature, June 2025.
New Zealand’s environment and communities will face greater pollution, increased biodiversity loss and environmental damage, with a long-term cost to the economy, if today’s Government rollbacks come into effect.
Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society.
Forest & Bird Wellington Branch are excited that Paul Ward, Founder, and Project Lead of the Capital Kiwi Project and Jeff Hall, Field Services Specialist will update us on their ambitious proj
Forest & Bird's Regional Hui at Tarapuruhi Bushy Park in Whanganui
Join us on Sunday 15 June for a day of interesting local speakers (from Project Reef South Taranaki and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining to talk about the Taranaki Bight, along with speakers from Wairua Conservation and Horizons Re
