West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield has lost his bid to bar significant natural areas (SNAs) from private land. Councils and iwi working on a new combined district plan for the region have been agonising for months over the legal requirement to identify SNAs.
The aphotic deep sea of the Earth's oceans constitutes a unique environment. Although this habitat is of immense importance for ocean health and vital for the planet's important biogeochemical cycles, its biodiversity is, to a large extent, undocumented and poorly understood.
Releasing a higher number of kiwi into large predator-controlled areas could increase the success of efforts to help their survival in the wild, new research shows...Translocations are intentional movements of wildlife by humans from one place to another and are often used in conservation managem
The government is being accused of caving to big business by winding back protections for wetlands. Rules, only brought in a year ago, currently stop any sort of development within 100 metres of a wetland.
Six Coromandel kiwi care groups have received more than $1 million to increase the rate of kiwi recovery and expand their area of protection by 10,000 hectares over the next fours years. The $1,041,320 injection was one of 11 Jobs for Nature projects funded by national charity, Kiwis for kiwi.
The latest population estimate for critically endangered Māui dolphins has fallen by 14 percent in the past five years, according to a report leaked to RNZ. The latest survey by the Department of Conservation showed there were just 54 remaining.
The Samoa Conservation Society (S.C.S) will soon receive NZ$99,000 ($170,000 tala) in funding to support the country's conservation efforts. The funding comes courtesy of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (M.F.A.T) and was announced by the Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiame Naomi
Marine scientists at Massey University have confirmed a sea mammal that surprised villagers on one of Fiji's remote islands this week is a fur seal.
A conservation park near Masterton is about to level up its battle against a soaring population of rabbits, after a funding boost from Government. The Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre says rabbit numbers have increased rapidly, which has in turn attracted other pest species.
Tourist operators say the rules governing national parks are so outdated that when a crisis like Covid-19 strikes and they need to adapt, they're hamstrung. A different set of rules - or management plans - governs each of the 13 national parks.