Year: 2017

Over the years the outdoors values of New Zealand have been very poorly represented because we have relied on other parties to advocate on outdoors issues. The result has been many of the things New Zealanders treasure being degraded or destroyed. Examples such as excessive trawling and waste by the

A recent interview with Co-Leader, David Haynes, in the Nelson Leader 9 March 2017

1. the target of 90% of rivers and lakes swimmable by 2040 only applies to 54,000km of river and lake edge. This is roughly only 10% of our entire freshwater network. 2. Thus, the real proposed target is 9% of our total freshwater swimmable by 2040. 3. Of the remaining

Hunting license proposed. It has been proposed by DoC and the associate Minister Peter Dunne in conjunction with the Game Animal Council to make hunters pay for wild animal management in NZ. Doc and the Game Animal Council are proposing that funding come from recreational hunters and the only way

Your Peak Paradise article was timely, given MBIEs conservative forecast of visitor numbers exceeding our population by 2022 but the solution proferred by McKinsey, The Green Party et al, whilst adding to Government coffers, does not address the core issue – CAPACITY.  The increasing mobility of a growing global middle-class

As one introduced species to another, can I congratulate you on publishing Lewis Hore’s article (Bias against introduced animals needs revision, 20 Jan 2017).  How sick we all are of hearing the “all native good, all introduced bad” dogma which denies that honey bees pollinate native trees, eucalyptus and elderberry