NZ will be forced to put saving livelihoods before saving lives of endangered birds
Comment: I’m not saying the Government’s got its priorities right or wrong. I’m perching like a disoriented brown…
Shane Jones shuns UN bottom trawling meeting, blasting global ‘talk fests’
New Zealand will play a pre-recorded video at a United Nations workshop on the impacts bottom fishing has…
Jones urges mining bosses to apply for fast-track before election
Mining bosses are hurrying to get their fast-track applications in before the election, wary of what a Labour-led…
Cameras on boats reveal second-highest Hector’s dolphin bycatch in a decade
Elevated levels of Hector’s dolphin bycatch since cameras on boats were operationalised show something needs to change, a…
SPCA takes on big fish in cameras-on-boats feeding frenzy
The SPCA believes the overhaul of the Fisheries Act “significantly reduces” oversight of any possible animal welfare infringements…
Fishing industry fears ‘going backwards’ with new laws empowering council bans
The bill set to replace the Resource Management Act opens the door to repeats of the Waikato Regional…
South Australia launches real-time shark warning site
A new online service has launched aiming to help people know in real time just when it is…
‘I heard it described as the biggest energy shock in the history of the world; it certainly feels like it’
It’s grape harvest time in Nelson and Marlborough, and vineyard management contractor John Selwood and his 40-strong team…
Appeal taken against High Court’s freshwater pollution decision
The legal stoush over a Canterbury water pollution rule is headed to the Court of Appeal. In a…
Taranaki eruption poses ‘quite unique’ threat to energy security
New Zealand’s energy security depends on gas, but our only local source is sitting on top of an…
Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt
The Waikato Regional Council is advancing a plan to close the vast majority of the Coromandel’s coast to…
NZ reliance on ag and tourism demands added caution around gene technology
Opinion: The rewrite of our gene technology law takes on a whole new meaning when looking at what…