Struggling commercial fishers and environmentalists say the White House is exploiting COVID-19 to privatise the ocean writes Alexander C Kaufman in the Huff Post (USA). These are some extracts. The full article is at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-seafood_n_5ec83d11c5b6b214329566e4 Since lockdown measures in the … Continue reading
by Ben Hope A Coromandel environmentalist Reihana Robinson has slammed New Zealand’s use of poisons such as 1080 and brodifacoum. “To mass poison a landscape is ecological madness,” she said. In addition, the whole “pest” management policy lacks efficiency and … Continue reading
A conservationist and one of the instigators of Predator-Free New Zealand has blasted a national conservation organisation Forest and Bird and the Department of Conservation for creating a “tapestry of theft and deception” to sabotage the original concept while setting … Continue reading
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” Maurice Maeterlinck, “The Life of a Bee” In the last 50 years agrotoxins have spread and are pushing bees to extinction. The … Continue reading
by Ben Hope Wallabies given a dishonourable mention in government’s recent budget as a pest needing money to combat them, could be earning valuable local and export dollars money by way of meat and hides says a hunters’ environmental advocacy … Continue reading
An opinion by Tony Orman The government is considering proposals to change the way the high country is being farmed. But how well qualified is government and its bureaucracies to formulate a constructive set of management proposals? How well has … Continue reading
Opinion by Michelle Terry “$1.1 billion for nature jobs”? Was this a first draft budget presented to NZ as the final version? Using the word Nature to describe pesticide and herbicide use is stretching the truth to the … Continue reading
What has happened to the 2017 promises by the Labour, Greens and NZ First parties – now forming government – to tangibly start the task of cleaning up the public’s waterways after decades of neglect? That’s the question two prominent … Continue reading
The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) has congratulated the Government for announcing that it is going to implement a measure that CAFCA has advocated – namely, applying its proposed national interest … Continue reading
Book Review “Duped – The True Story behind Predator Free New Zealand” by Les Kelly. Self published. Available from predatorfreenz@gmail.com, Price $25 plus postage i.e.$29.50 for urban delivery or $33.50 for rural delivery. Reviewed by Tony Orman Marlborough conservationist Les … Continue reading
An opinion by Tony Orman Education is so important. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato once said “If a man neglects his education he walks lame for the rest of his life.” But is education delivering only good values and the … Continue reading
Opinion by John McNab The New Zealand Department of Conservation (DoC) employ scientists to come up with conclusions that will be deemed favourable to the pro-poison policies (aka policy-based evidence-making.) However, if a scientist comes up with the unwanted realities, … Continue reading
Governments had a strong tendency to show a bias towards foreign investors says Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA). Murray Horton, CAFCA’s secretary/organiser writing in the latest issue of the organisation’s “Foreign Control Watchdog” said the standard line from … Continue reading
by Ben Hope An analysis of the government’s performance in stemming the foreign buy-up of New Zealand has given it a mixed mark. Murray Horton, secretary organiser for Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) said while there were encouraging … Continue reading
by Tony Orman “The sport of trout fishing belongs to all New Zealanders.” That was the first sentence in a chapter entitled “Trout Farming” in a book I wrote back in 1979 entitled “The Sport in Fishing.” Trout farming was … Continue reading
Compiled by Ben Hope John Muir, a noted early 20th century American conservationist and author, was the founder of the US’s Sierra Club and wrote several books as well, including The Mountains of California (1894), Our National Parks (1901), Stickeen: … Continue reading
The New Zealand Outdoors Party is stunned that the government proceeded with strict lockdown rules and threats of prosecution despite preliminary Crown legal advice that government’s plans were unlawful. The lockdown rules prohibiting outdoors activities such as swimming, fishing, … Continue reading
The government’s intention to impose a firearm registry on the firearm owning public will be a waste of time and money says Nicole McKee of the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO). The comment followed the release of the Auditor-General … Continue reading
Special report thanks to Newsroom. There are health issues lurking in New Zealanders’ water that need urgent attention says Dr Mike Joy, a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies in Wellington School of Business and Government … Continue reading
by Michelle Terry We have fallen into a habit of calling our public land ‘DoC-Land’ thanks to the media and even our politicians who use this jargon. But the hard, indisputable fact is that land doesn’t belong to the Department of … Continue reading
