Environment News & Events
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
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
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
Appointments to the New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board
The Minister for Hunting and Fishing, Hon. Todd McClay, has appointed board members to the New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust.
- 11/07/2024
- Maggie Tait
Reports show why ORC must lead the way out of troubled waters
Otago Fish & Game is deeply concerned about the state of the region’s environment, with recently released Otago Regional Council reports suggesting many of its freshwater bodies are in serious…
- Otago
- 11/03/2024
- Bruce Quirey