The Government is launching New Zealand’s largest-ever species protection programme, increasing the use of aerial 1080 to control pests and […]
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Govt prepares for plague of rats and stoats
New Zealand’s forests are set to be the battleground for a war between introduced predators and the Department of Conservation. […]
Continue readingGovt must ‘sort out’ conservation land in limbo – PCE
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, is calling on the government to “sort out” land classed as ‘stewardship […]
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Longfin eels – PCE calls for commercial fishing moratorium
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Dr Jan Wright has launched a new report, On a pathway to extinction? An investigation […]
Continue readingScientists protest DOC cuts
In an open letter to the Conservation Minister, a group of over 100 New Zealand scientists have expressed their “collective […]
Continue readingDoC defends kakapo against ecological triage
An Australian ecologist has suggested that efforts to prevent the extinction of the native kakapo should be abandoned in favour […]
Continue readingMalborough Express: Call to help with whale research
Department of Conservation researchers are encouraging the public to report all Southern right whale sightings in efforts to support a […]
Continue readingMalborough Express: Spiky find may be new species
A New Zealand slug has been found which could, an expert says, be a new species. The slug, which features […]
Continue readingProspect of mining conservation land stirs controversy
An announcement by Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee last week (at a conference of the Australian Institute of Mining […]
Continue readingConservation Week (7-14 September)
Conservation week takes place this week and is New Zealand’s biggest green event. It’s been running since 1969 and is […]
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