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Fish & Game leads community effort to save threatened Marlborough wetland
Marlborough’s largest surviving wetland is being restored through the efforts of hunters, an international winemaker, Fish & Game, DoC and conservation minded community volunteers.
- 1/02/2016
Fish & Game applauds tourism industry call for government action on water quality
Fish & Game is congratulating the tourism industry for its stand over the government’s continuing failure to address New Zealand’s deteriorating water quality.
- 29/01/2016
Fish & Game Vows To Fight To Protect ‘Cornerstone’ Environment Law
Fish & Game says it will carefully review the government’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act to ensure its existing environmental protections aren’t compromised.
- 26/11/2015
Kakapo Brook win ‘a victory’ for high value high country zones
Fish & Game is hailing as a victory the Kakapo Brook decision by the ECan appointed Independent Hearing Commissioners, to decline water take and use consents in a highly valued…
- 25/11/2015
Fish&Game calls for stronger environment protection laws after “sobering report”
Fish & Game is calling for a radical re-think on environment protection laws, saying the just-issued State of The Environment Report shows the present system isn’t working.
- 23/10/2015
Fish & Game Questions Horizons Regional Council's Commitment To The Environment
Fish & Game is calling for a formal, independent review of Horizons Regional Council after media reports the council is allowing farmers to dodge environmental plans for cleaning up the…
- 8/10/2015
Save recreational access plea by Federated Farmers and Fish & Game
Federated Farmers and Fish & Game are asking Parliament to ensure proposed health and safety legislation does not lead to restrictions on recreational access to farms and forests.
- 13/07/2015
Fish & Game wins again over Ruataniwha Dam
Fish & Game is welcoming as a “significant victory” the Ruataniwha Board of Inquiry’s final decision on the conditions which would govern the controversial Hawkes Bay dam and irrigation project.
- 26/06/2015
Fish & Game Urges Government To Act on Water Quality
Fish & Game is urging the government to act immediately on the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s warnings about the continuing deterioration of the country’s waterways and sharp rise in…
- 19/06/2015