West Coast Conservation

West Coast — The Save Happy Valley Coalition offers support for the National Government's decision to scrap plans to mine NZ national parks under schedule 4, though continues to urge policy makers not to mine valuable biodiversity hotspots that lack state protection as National Parks, such as Happy Valley, near Westport in the South Island.  The planned Cypress Mine imposes severe threats to this irreplaceable New Zealand alpine wetland habitat, and National's recent change of policy will not save places like this.

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West Coast — The Animal Health Board (AHB) has strongly condemned the illegal removal of warning signs from South Westland bovine tuberculosis (TB) control operational areas.

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West Coast — The Minister of Conservation could save an enormous amount of time, effort, and money by ruling out any possible land exchange for the Mokihinui river valley, the Green Party said today.

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Franz Josef — Cee Cee, one of the best-known rowi kiwi, was found dead on the side of Ökärito Road on May 13.

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Franz Josef — Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson kicked off Westland Tai Poutini National Park's 50th anniversary celebrations today in Franz Josef and officially opened the newly sealed glacier roads.

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West Coast — The West Coast is one of the few places left in New Zealand where the majority of the rainforest was not clear felled and converted to other exotic monoculture systems.

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West Coast — I am proposing a managed mountain wildlife sanctuary (The Turiwhate Ecological Island Sanctuary).

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West Coast —  The Department of Conservation is joining Federated Farmers and the Animal Health Board in seeking to meet with the Westland District Council to clarify the Council’s concerns about 1080 operations near water supplies.

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West Coast — Federated Farmers is calling for reason in the 1080 debate that has intensified in the West Coast and Coromandel regions over the past few weeks.

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West Coast — The Green Party has obtained photos of the mature rainforest trees felled by Transit last week, which show they were not rotten and dangerous, and should never have been removed from the protected World Heritage site they grew in.

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West Coast — "WALKING THE WALK", an team of conservationists are about to complete a three month, 1000 kilometre on-foot journey from Auckland to Happy Valley, an area of national ecological significance.

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West Coast — The Green Party is urging the Government to put a stop to Solid Energy’s folly in attempting to destroy one of New Zealand’s last remaining alpine wetlands.

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West Coast — One of the largest remaining blocks of original lowland forest in central Westland will now be protected as a new conservation reserve, says Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick.

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West Coast — The Greens are thrilled the Environment Court has upheld the Buller River Water Conservation Order which was threatened by a power project planned for the Gowan River, one of our most significant waterways and the mighty Buller River’s major tributary.

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