NZ Herald 14 December Image: Civic Trust Auckland, 18 August 2018

Image: Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage The petition is here.

The Environment Committee has presented its report on this bill to the House. It is available on the Parliament website at this link. The CTA submission on the bill is here.  

Mining can have devastating impacts on nature, such as destroying the homes of vulnerable wildlife like the Archey’s frog in the Coromandel – the smallest of our four native frogs, and one of the rarest and most endangered in the world. It is more than four years since the Prime...

Heritage New Zealand has created a new website that will help you find, visit and enjoy some of Aoteaora New Zealand’s wonderful historic places, along with a diverse range of heritage-themed road trips and itineraries for you and your whānau. These heritage places are diverse and fascinating, in rural settings...

For decades, Pakiri Beach, 2 hours north of Auckland, has been mined for its white sand. It’s the site of the largest single nearshore sand mining activity in the developed world. This sand extraction is causing erosion, destroying shellfish beds, stealing safe nesting spots from endangered birds and ruining surf...

Aotearoa Collective for Public Transport Equity has a petition on Action Station that calls for the Minister of Transport to implement free public transport for Community Service Card holders, full- and part-time tertiary students, and under-25s nationwide.  The petition states that New Zealand should be a place where everyone can...

CTA is a member of the Character Coalition and has received the following update: It has been quite some time since you received an update from the Coalition. After a supreme effort during the Unitary Plan, we needed a while to get over what felt like a trouncing. For some...

The Environmental Defence Society has welcomed the release of Parliament’s Environment Select Committee report on the government’s proposed replacement for the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) – the Natural and Built Environments Bill. “The drafting of some of the key front-end provisions of the Bill, including its purpose and principles,...

A damning new report released today by Greenpeace Indonesia has revealed the New Zealand dairy industry’s role in supporting illegal palm oil plantations and destruction of protected Indonesian rainforests. The report – called ‘Deceased Estate’ – documents palm oil plantation expansion in national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and even UNESCO sites,...