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Application to dig up Denniston Plateau for coal lodged
2+ week, 5+ day ago (99+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Supporting Forest & Bird is one of the best things you can do for New Zealand's environment. We need people like you to support us, so that…...
Fast-track loophole must be closed to deliver on promise to fix Conservation Amendment Bill
3+ week, 5+ day ago (99+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Supporting Forest & Bird is one of the best things you can do for New Zealand's environment. We need people like you to support us, so that…...
In Search of Giants
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1156+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership A Southern Alps giant wētā. Image: Danilo Hegg. The Southern Alps giant wētā is at risk of extinction, prompting volunteers from a wētā conservation trust to…...
Nature on my mind
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1711+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Dr Marc Berman, one of the world’s leading environmental neuroscientists, explains why time in nature is good for our brains. By Kerrie Waterworth In this age…...
Giant coral discovery
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (689+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership The black coral dwarfs a diver in Fiordland. Image James Bell Marine biologist James Bell recently encountered a centuries old black coral. A version of this…...
Life on the edge
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1037+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Tommy Copeland and Lily Duval look out over the Deep Stream wilderness, Denniston Bioblitz 2026. Image Scott Burnett When a Forest & Bird-led team of scientists tramped into…...
New law will protect pests in national parks
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (384+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Last week, the Game Animal (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament and will become law. “This Act allows our national…...
Powerhouse conservationist Ines Stäger receives Forest & Bird’s highest honour
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (742+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Ines Stäger. Image Caroline Wood A powerhouse for conservation in South Canterbury for more than 35 years, Ines Stäger, of Geraldine, has been awarded a Distinguished Life…...
Daisies and reserves: Ashburton conservationist gets highest honour from Forest & Bird
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (664+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Val Clemens planting out seedlings. Image supplied. Val Clemens, who played a pivotal role in saving a critically endangered Canterbury daisy and establishing the Harris Scientific…...
Rangitīkei conservation volunteers punch above their weight to win Forest & Bird award
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (582+ words) Haere mai ki Te Reo o te Taiao – Welcome to Forest & Bird. Regular GivingMembership Rangitīkei branch members at Sutherlands Pūriri Reserve. Image supplied Forest & Bird's Rangitīkei Branch has won a Branch Award for its decades-long stewardship of five of the…...