Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage, according to a report published earlier in December by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). A third (33%) of natural World Heritage sites are threatened by climate change, including the world’s largest coral reef, the Great Barrier...
The Climate Change Commission will be inviting submissions on its draft advice to government between Monday 1 February and midnight Sunday 16 March 2021. Ahead of the release of the draft advice, the commission wants to share as much of its thinking as it can, as early as it can....
New Directions for Resource Management in New Zealand is the most significant, broad ranging and inclusive review to take place within the system since the Resource Management Act came into force in 1991. The reform of the resource management system addresses significant pressures on both the natural and built environments....
When commercial fishing boats are out at sea, what they pull up from the ocean goes largely unchecked. The number of fish reported caught, or any dolphins, penguins and seabirds encountered, is based on what the industry reports. Commercial fishing has been plundering the seas, dumping fish and killing native...
Forest & Bird asked five major political parties for their ideas about New Zealand’s key environmental issues. Which party will do the most to ensure we protect our native animals, our conservation land, and our oceans? Read their responses. Photo: F&B
Confronting Carbon Inequality shows that the richest 10% of the world’s population have been responsible for more than half of the carbon added to the atmosphere since 1990. The richest 1% have caused twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of humanity. Carbon emissions of the richest 1 per...
The Labour-NZ First coalition government announced in late 2017 that there would be “no new mines on conservation land.” Since then, more than 150,000 ha of mining permits have been approved on conservation land, according to documents released to Forest and Bird under the OIA. F&B’s review of stewardship areas...
To implement its Essential Freshwater package, the government has gazetted new freshwater standards and regulations to protect and restore New Zealand’s freshwater. These are the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020, National Environmental Standards for Freshwater, and section 360 regulations on stock exclusion and real-time reporting for water takes...
World Wildlife Fund New Zealand asked seven political parties (ACT, Greens, Labour, Māori Party, National, New Conservatives and NZ First) about their commitments to a range of 10 policies for the ocean. This included whether they supported: 30% of our coastal and marine areas fully protected by 2030 Ensuring transparent...
Greenpeace has launched a petition calling on the prime minister to urgently reinstate general tree protection across Aotearoa. Sign the petition here. Up to one third of Auckland’s urban trees have been destroyed since the last National Government removed general tree protection in 2012. As our towns and cities become...