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Photo Competition opens for 2027 Game Bird Habitat Stamp
Fish & Game New Zealand and the Game Bird Habitat Trust are calling for photographers and hunters to capture the perfect shot of a game bird in its natural habitat…
- 4/03/2025
- Maggie Tait
Fish & Game New Zealand backs investment in QEII National Trust
The Government’s announcement of an additional $4.
- 22/02/2025
- Maggie Tait
Small-scale wetlands making a big difference, says Fish & Game
Fish & Game New Zealand is highlighting how small-scale wetland projects are proving to be powerful tools in the fight to protect and restore New Zealand's precious wetland ecosystems.
- 11/02/2025
- Maggie Tait
Local species go wild on World Wetlands Day
It was a wildlife watcher’s dream as a menagerie of creatures were spotted in Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs in Wānaka on World Wetlands Day yesterday.
- Otago
- 3/02/2025
Repeat success for Northland hunter in Game Bird Habitat Stamp competition
A striking image of a pūkeko in flight has seen Northland hunter and photographer David Towgood named as winner of the Game Bird Habitat Stamp Photo competition for the second…
- 3/02/2025
- Maggie Tait
World Wetlands Day a chance to acknowledge landowners
Fish & Game Chief Executive Corina Jordan is thanking all the catchment communities and landowners around the country who have worked hard to protect, restore and create wetlands.
- 2/02/2025
- Maggie Tait
Family fun event showcases Wānaka urban wetland
Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs, a unique urban wetland, will be the focus of a family fun event to celebrate World Wetlands Day, in Wānaka on Sunday, February 2, 2025 The 2-hectare…
- Otago Conservation Fresh Water
- 14/01/2025
Once Bittern twice shy – the mission to count the shy and secretive Australasian bittern
A large, secretive and shy, wetland heron – the Australasian bittern (matuku hūrepo) – isn’t easy to find which makes it hard to count them but a committed group has…
- 2/09/2024
- Maggie Tait
Spawning monitoring – measuring to manage
Fish & Game staff throughout the country are busy conducting spawning surveys for trout and salmon to ensure there are sustainable fisheries for the future and to check up on…
- 8/08/2024
- Maggie Tait
Trustee retires after a lifetime of protecting wetlands
After 57 years out in the wild John Cheyne is home to roost after retiring as a trustee for the NZ Game Bird Habitat Trust (GBHT).
- 15/07/2024
- Maggie Tait