Plans laid for New Zealand Spearfishing Championships on Barrier
Photo / Daniel Torobekov
Residents Back New Bylaw to Cut Crayfish Daily Limits
Photo / Jasus Edwards
Thirty Years on Hirakimata: What We’ve Learned About the Black Petrel
A new report released this month marks 30 years of black petrel monitoring on Great Barrier Island, the only place in the world — along with Little Barrier — where the seabird breeds, revealing a population holding steady but still…
Sleepy birds, quiet dawns: how noisy, bright city nights disrupt and change birdsong
Photo / Juli Gaviraghi Mussoi, CC BY-NC-ND
How the discovery of an extinct shelduck highlights the rich ancient biodiversity of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu)
Photo / Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa , CC BY-ND
Greenpeace petition reignites call for bottom trawling ban in Hauraki Gulf
Greenpeace has launched a fresh petition calling on Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones to ban bottom trawling, scallop dredging, and Danish seining across the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. The campaign argues that a century of seabed damage from mobile…
Plans to ‘De-Extinct’ the Moa Raise Eyebrows
Photo / Heinrich Harder (1858-1935)
Visitor Levy Funds Poison and Trapping in National Parks
The government has announced that $22 million collected from international visitors will be used over the next three years to fund large-scale poison and trapping operations, and goat culls across New Zealand’s national parks and offshore islands. Conservation Minister Tama…
New Zealand fisheries among world’s most sustainable, but critics say more could be done
A United Nations report has ranked New Zealand’s fisheries among the most sustainable on the planet, crediting decades of management and the pioneering quota system introduced in 1986. “The report compared fisheries around the world and found the region including…
Duck That: The Predator-Free Grift Gears Up for Aotea
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