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A new rule protecting biodiversity off the coast of Motiti Island came into effect this week.

No one will be allowed to take any kind of marine life from three reef areas surrounding Mōtītī Island from tomorrow onwards. This follows a decision made by the Environment Court that has ruled the area's biodiversity and cultural value to be special and in need of protection.

Coromandel's Eastern Peninsula community is outraged commercial fishing boats, donning pirate flags, are harvesting scallops in a rāhui zone. They were spotted in the area yesterday, which has been under a voluntary rāhui since December to allow scallop beds to recover.

A report from an environmental coalition says bottom trawlers have hauled up 128 previously unknown species of coral in the past three years...Environmental groups say it adds to a growing mountain of research that the fishing practice needs to be shut down...Forest & Bird spokesperson Geoff

Councils and iwi working on a new district plan for the West Coast have been warned they can't get away from dealing with the thorny question of SNAs and protecting indigenous biodiversity. Members of the Te Tai o Poutini plan committee agonised over the issue for more than an hour at their

A kiwi bird has been killed by a dog on conservation land in Taranaki. The female North Island brown kiwi was found with bite marks along its body in the Pouiatoa Conservation Area in North Taranaki.

A team hopes a drone dropping thousands of seeds over the Hūnua ranges could provide a boost to native reforestation efforts. If the trial works, the drone-testing team say New Zealand could be progressing on the government's ambitious goal of 1 billion trees planted by 2028 years

The Environment Minister says banning bottom trawling in areas that haven't been trawled before may be a good idea. Conservation group, WWF, says virgin sea bed covering an area three times the size of Auckland has been trawled by fishermen over the past decade.

A one-year-old kākā had to be euthanised after being shot in the latest of a series of shootings against other protected wildlife in Auckland. The Department of Conservation (DOC) initially found the bird alive on 13 May after it was shot in Whangateau on Auckland's northeast coast.

Conservationists are calling out New Zealand's bottom trawling fleet for operating the “most destructive fishery” in Australia as Kiwi vessels trawl for orange roughy off the Tasmanian coast.