Pages tagged "page-portfolio-Conservation"
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Greens commit to undoing attacks on conservation and environment laws
The Green Party has announced at the March for Nature in Auckland that, if elected, it will ensure that conservation land is managed for nature, not for profit, and that there are strong limits on activity that might harm the wider environment.
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Public pressure on Conservation Amendment Bill forces roll back but meaningless as worst elements still remain
Read morePublic pressure has forced the Coalition Government to roll back parts of the Conservation Amendment Bill, but changes are essentially meaningless when the remaining clauses could still have disastrous ramifications, says the Green Party.
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Calls for fisheries amendment bill to be dropped completely
The Green Party is welcoming the Government's backdown on the Fisheries Amendment Bill, but says the Bill needs to be scrapped completely, not just delayed.
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People and nature first in Greens’ rivers and oceans policy
The Green Party is calling foul on the Luxon Government’s dismantling of environmental protection, announcing a policy programme to deliver clean drinking water, swimmable rivers and beaches, and healthy oceans for all New Zealanders.
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Conservation Amendment Bill needs to start again
Read moreThe Green Party says Conservation Minister Tama Potaka's decision to drop the disposal and exchange clauses from his Conservation Amendment Bill shows public pressure is working, but the whole Bill needs to be pulled and the reform started again.
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Green Party will protect public conservation land for future generations
The Green Party is announcing in government it will overhaul the laws protecting Aotearoa's conservation land and wildlife, scrapping the Government's current reform and starting again with a process focused on protecting what we have for future generations.
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Bill would protect public conservation land this Government wants to mine
Green Party Member Lan Pham's Bill to prohibit mining on conservation land has been drawn from the ballot today.
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Luxon’s Government guts conservation protections
The Green Party says the Government is bringing in the bulldozers to rip up New Zealand’s precious landscapes by making it easier to privatise public conservation land.
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Greens celebrate Court of Appeal decision to protect Waihi Forest from mining
The Green Party is celebrating a Court of Appeal decision to protect public land in the Wharekirauponga Forest from being ‘gifted’ to mining companies.
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Government sacrifices nature to the bulldozer
Christopher Luxon’s Government continues to show its true colours on environmental protection, today rejecting most of the advice of expert panels established to consider the right level of protection for stewardship land on the West Coast, and reducing the protection of tens of thousands of hectares recommended for National Park status.
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