🧟 A zombie water storage scheme is trying to claw its way back to life – but time has moved on while this water storage project hasn’t!. An application to extend 2014 resource consents for the Ruataniwha dam – a major water storage scheme in the Hawke’s Bay – is currently

🌿 Victory for native forests!  . We’re welcoming the Department of Conservation’s decision to reject a fifteen-hectare quarry on South Westland conservation land – allowing only a one-hectare area instead. The original application threatened: . 🌲 500+ year-old totara,

This week’s Critter of the Week is the New Zealand scorpionfly, or Nannochorista philpotti! 🦂🦟  . A tiny relic from the age before butterflies and bees is still zipping around our forests and streams today! Neither a scorpion nor a fly, this elusive South Island native is the

Forest & Bird President Kate Graeme has been part of the fight to protect the Denniston Plateau for more than a decade. That fight went all the way to the Supreme Court – where the unique value of this wild landscape was confirmed. Thanks to the new fast-track law, all those

High in the misty forests of Denniston lives a tough, alpine specialist – the roroa great spotted kiwi, our largest and most rugged kiwi species. 🌳 Denniston is a stronghold for this species – a rare mix of high-altitude forest, stony soil, and cool damp conditions. 🪱

Forest & Bird, farmers, and foresters are united: invasive pest animals are out of control. These pests aren't just destroying nature – they are taking a toll on rural livelihoods. Pigs are eating lambs and wrecking pasture. Deer are eating crops and stripping forests. Right

This week’s Critter of the Week is the Golden Hunter Wasp, or Sphictostethus nitidus! Sleek, shiny, and built for the chase, this native wasp is an expert spider-slayer found throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. You might have seen them in your gardens before – a large red wasp

Terry has witnessed a lot of change on the West Coast since he moved there 50 years ago. His voice belongs to this landscape now. And it’s a voice we all need to hear. “You live in a place long enough, it infiltrates you. And you infiltrate it. It's that concept of belonging.

Forest & Bird’s Nicola Toki has sounded the alarm, warning that sweeping reforms by the coalition Government are stripping back environmental protections so rapidly that “no New Zealander can keep up.”. In a powerful interview Nicola spoke of her deep concern that we’re losing.

MINING FACT: Denniston’s coal isn’t for us – but we’ll still pay the price. 20 million tonnes of coal .50 million tonnes of CO2  .Equal to all of New Zealand’s annual emissions – burned offshore. This coal won’t heat Kiwi homes. It’s exported for overseas for a steelmaking

❤️ Aroha in action – that's the theme of episode 2 of @Heal the Hauraki, a documentary series and environmental impact campaign that premiers on YouTube on Sunday 6 July at 6pm and features Forest & Bird’s national conservation advocate Bianca Ranson (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu ki

🌳 The recent Horizons-Manawatū Regional Hui brought 70 members of Forest & Bird and the public together at Tarapuruhi Bushy Park in Whanganui to connect over important local conservation issues. We swapped stories, shared kai, and heard from inspiring speakers on big issues

🪤 Give a trap. Get a forest full of birdsong.💚 . Imagine an Aotearoa where native wildlife flourishes – a landscape safe from introduced predators. There are thousands of volunteer-led community groups working towards the Predator Free 2050 vision, helping kiwi, kākā,

Recently, a member of our Forest & Bird team joined the Raukūmara Pae Maunga crew on Rakiura Stewart Island for two packed-out community hui and a breakfast kōrero, sharing experiences from successful 1080 operations in the North Island. 🪶 We were there because pukunui

Central Hawke’s Bay farmer James Hunter is showing what nature-based solutions look like on the ground – by restoring wetlands, fencing off bush, and planting native trees to bring wildlife back to his land – and he's proving that farming and conservation can go hand-in-hand.

🥇New Zealanders take pride in being first: first to give women the vote, first to climb Everest. but we're also first in the world for the proportion of native species at risk of extinction. 🎙️Forest & Bird’s Chief Executive Nicola Toki joins broadcaster John Cowan on

👏Forest & Bird is giving a big shoutout to our 2025 annual award recipients, announced today!. Every year, we recognise outstanding individuals and a branch, who go above and beyond for nature and this year’s recipients are no exception. From seasoned ecologists to youth