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Threatened environment to benefit from game bird hunting licence sales
Game bird hunting licences are going on sale (March 17) with some of the money raised from the sales going towards preserving New Zealand’s shrinking wetlands.
- 16/03/2016
Fish & Game applauds Landcorp environmental lead
Fish & Game has applauded the decision by the country’s largest farming company to significantly scale back its plans to turn forests near Taupo into dairy farms.
- 8/03/2016
Fish & Game critical of "weak" government response to poor water quality
Fish & Game is critical of the government’s just-released consultation document on fresh water, saying overall it will weaken not strengthen existing environmental protection and is a smokescreen to hide…
- 21/02/2016
Hawke's Bay Regional Council under fire for river stand
The group asking for a Water Conservation Order for Hawke’s Bay’s Ngaruroro and Clive Rivers is disappointed the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has come out against the initiative, describing the…
- 16/02/2016
Game bird hunters raise money to support World Wetlands Day
New Zealanders who want to help protect some of the country’s most important environmental areas are urged to buy the latest Fish & Game habitat stamp being launched today (Tuesday…
- 2/02/2016
Fish & Game leads community effort to save threatened Marlborough wetland
Marlborough’s largest surviving wetland is being restored through the efforts of hunters, an international winemaker, Fish & Game, DoC and conservation minded community volunteers.
- 1/02/2016
Fish & Game applauds tourism industry call for government action on water quality
Fish & Game is congratulating the tourism industry for its stand over the government’s continuing failure to address New Zealand’s deteriorating water quality.
- 29/01/2016
Fish & Game Vows To Fight To Protect ‘Cornerstone’ Environment Law
Fish & Game says it will carefully review the government’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act to ensure its existing environmental protections aren’t compromised.
- 26/11/2015
Kakapo Brook win ‘a victory’ for high value high country zones
Fish & Game is hailing as a victory the Kakapo Brook decision by the ECan appointed Independent Hearing Commissioners, to decline water take and use consents in a highly valued…
- 25/11/2015
Fish&Game calls for stronger environment protection laws after “sobering report”
Fish & Game is calling for a radical re-think on environment protection laws, saying the just-issued State of The Environment Report shows the present system isn’t working.
- 23/10/2015