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March 28, 2025 | News
Marlborough Bat Tracking Sees Record Success
Record numbers of long-tailed bats have been captured and tracked in Marlborough’s Pelorus area, marking a hopeful sign for the vulnerable species.
March 8, 2026
January 29, 2025 | Paakiwaha
Nicola Toki | Forest & Bird Chief Executive
There is a new Minister of Health, the 5th in 5 years. What will Labour do about the state of NZ health services?
November 15, 2024 | News
Forest & Bird urges halt to fishing exemptions
The Chief Executive of Forest & Bird says the coalition government is undoing its positive work on the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill by allowing commercial fishing in proposed protected areas.
October 14, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Bianca Ransom | Hauraki Gulf Campaigner – Forest & Bird
In an editorial in the NZ Medical Journal, public health academics take issue with a government directive for agencies to focus on need rather than ethnicity when poviding services,
September 13, 2024 | News
Hoiho ahead by a beak for Bird of the Year
You've still got until Sunday to vote for Forest & Bird's Bird of the Year.
September 13, 2024 | News
Supreme Court stands up for fishery sustainability
The Supreme Court has ruled overfished stocks need to be rebuilt within a period that is based on the stock’s biology and environmental conditions, without regard to social, cultural and economic factors.
August 27, 2024 | News
Taiao excluded from fast track plans
Forest & Bird chief executive Nicola Toki says the Fast Track Approvals Bill is no way to protect the environment.
July 11, 2024 | News
Coastal impacts undermine climate strategy pillars
Forest & Bird chief executive Nicola Toki says the Government's climate strategy lays bare its lack of commitment to meaningful change.
June 24, 2024 | News
Action welcome on Hauraki Gulf plan
Forest & Bird’s Hauraki Gulf lead coordinator says while the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill offers a long term plan for recovery, action is needed to restore the mana of that moana.
June 21, 2024 | News
Hauraki Gulf bill clears select committee
Parliament’s Environment Committee has recommended the Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill be passed in its entirety.
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