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Environment News & Events

Environment News & Events

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2025 Game Bird Stamp
Photo Competition opens for 2027 Game Bird Habitat Stamp

Fish & Game New Zealand and the Game Bird Habitat Trust are calling for photographers and hunters to capture the perfect shot of a game bird in its natural habitat…

  • 4/03/2025
  • Maggie Tait
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Fish & Game New Zealand backs investment in QEII National Trust

The Government’s announcement of an additional $4.

  • 22/02/2025
  • Maggie Tait
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Small-scale wetlands making a big difference, says Fish & Game

Fish & Game New Zealand is highlighting how small-scale wetland projects are proving to be powerful tools in the fight to protect and restore New Zealand's precious wetland ecosystems.

  • 11/02/2025
  • Maggie Tait
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Local species go wild on World Wetlands Day

It was a wildlife watcher’s dream as a menagerie of creatures were spotted in Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs in Wānaka on World Wetlands Day yesterday.

  • Otago
  • 3/02/2025
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Repeat success for Northland hunter in Game Bird Habitat Stamp competition

A striking image of a pūkeko in flight has seen Northland hunter and photographer David Towgood named as winner of the Game Bird Habitat Stamp Photo competition for the second…

  • 3/02/2025
  • Maggie Tait
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World Wetlands Day a chance to acknowledge landowners

Fish & Game Chief Executive Corina Jordan is thanking all the catchment communities and landowners around the country who have worked hard to protect, restore and create wetlands.

  • 2/02/2025
  • Maggie Tait
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Family fun event showcases Wānaka urban wetland

  • Otago Conservation Fresh Water
  • 14/01/2025
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Once Bittern twice shy – the mission to count the shy and secretive Australasian bittern 

A large, secretive and shy, wetland heron – the Australasian bittern (matuku hūrepo) – isn’t easy to find which makes it hard to count them but a committed group has…

  • 2/09/2024
  • Maggie Tait
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Spawning monitoring – measuring to manage

Fish & Game staff throughout the country are busy conducting spawning surveys for trout and salmon to ensure there are sustainable fisheries for the future and to check up on…

  • 8/08/2024
  • Maggie Tait
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Trustee retires after a lifetime of protecting wetlands

After 57 years out in the wild John Cheyne is home to roost after retiring as a trustee for the NZ Game Bird Habitat Trust (GBHT).

  • 15/07/2024
  • Maggie Tait
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