Environment News & Events
Time’s running out - have your say on protecting trout!
Fish & Game is calling on anglers, as a deadline approaches, to step up their efforts to ensure trout and angling are protected from the controversial Conservation (Indigenous Freshwater Fish)…
- 17/10/2018
Otago Fish & Game Officer vacancy
Otago Fish & Game Council is the not-for-profit agency responsible for the management of sports fish (trout & salmon) and game birds (primarily waterfowl) and their habitats, in the recreational…
- 16/10/2018
- Richie Cosgrove
“The wait is over” Fish & Game welcomes Government’s plan to improve water quality
Fish and Game is welcoming the government’s just announced plan to tackle water quality, saying such action is well overdue.
- 8/10/2018
- Richie Cosgrove
No election needed in Fish & Game’s Auckland/Waikato Region
No election will be held for the Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Council for only the second time in nearly 30 years.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 6/09/2018
Fish & Game elections off to ‘healthy start’
Fish & Game elections are off to a “flying start” with plenty of candidates throwing their hats into the ring.
- 6/09/2018
Fish & Game Officer -West Coast Region
Fish & Game N. Z. West Coast has a vacancy for a full-time Fish & Game Officer to work remotely in the Buller and West Coast regions.
- 5/09/2018
- Richie Cosgrove
‘Clean it up or stop it’ – call for action on environmentally damaging intensive winter feeding
The agriculture industry is being challenged to clean up its act and enforce much higher standards for the environmentally damaging practice of intensive winter feeding.
- 24/08/2018
Intensive winter feeding – poor practice hurting the environment and farming
Fish and Game is calling for action to stop the environmental damage caused by intensive winter feeding of stock, saying the practice is not only damaging our rivers and streams,…
- 23/08/2018
- Richie Cosgrove
Central South Island Fish & Game joins the appeal on the RDR Decision
Central South Island Fish & Game Council (CSIFG) is joining an appeal against Canterbury Regional Council’s decision on applications by Rangitata Diversion Race Limited as a S274 party.
- North Canterbury Central South Island
- 17/08/2018
- Richie Cosgrove
Fish & Game praises Lake Tutira clean up efforts
Fish & Game has praised the efforts of community groups and individuals who are continuing their battle to improve Lake Tutira’s water quality.
- 16/08/2018