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The real estate advertisement is spot on in describing Mt White Station as an “iconic” South Island high country station. The 40,000 hectare property is adjacent to Arthur’s Pass National Park and the upper reaches of the Waimakariri River. More

Conservation Minister Maggie Barry was at the United Nations Oceans Conference in New York last week, trying to convince the world that the New Zealand Government is doing a good job at protecting our marine environment.  Yet last week after meeting in Slovenia, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) published a  More

New York-owned logging company NZ Sustainable Forest Products has been the major beneficiary of National’s weakening of the Conservation Act. The company has taken out more trees than any other operator and is now pushing for native forest logging on the West Coast to restart on an even bigger scale. More

Landcorp is New Zealand’s biggest farming operation. It’s a farming company with more than 100 farms, owned by us – the people of New Zealand – and I was very pleased to read a piece by Landcorp CEO, Steven Carden talking about a significant shift in what and h More

Public submissions closed yesterday on King Salmon Ltd’s controversial proposal for six new salmon farms on high-value sites in the Marlborough Sounds. More

A New Zealand sea lion/rāpoka has drowned in a squid fishing trawl net just seven weeks after the start of the squid fishing season. This shows the need for much stronger measures to protect endangered sea lions from being killed in fishing nets. More

I have always been suspicious of smoke since the curtains and wall in my student flat caught fire. A sleeping bag had fallen onto a one-bar electric heater on a freezing Christchurch winter day. More

Photo credit: Greg O’Beirne. Waimakariri River, Canterbury, New Zealand.  *A version of this column appeared on stuff.co.nz and in The Dominion Post More

One family living on Issac Road moved there after the Christchurch earthquakes, leaving behind the stress of living in a home broken and damaged by liquefaction for the peace and tranquillity of rural north Canterbury. More

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Having abundant kai moana in local areas is a key part of cultural wellbeing. Ending fishing methods which damage the seabed so that fisheries can recover would enable mana whenua to exercise their traditional rights, pass on Mātauranga Māori, and fulfil their kaitiaki responsibilities. It would also benefit recreational fishers. More

Fisheries observers spend days at sea, working in cramped and often difficult conditions recording and reporting on what commercial vessels catch. More

It makes no sense at all to allow companies to come to the Canterbury region to explore for more oil and gas.  Our oceans off the Canterbury coast are worth protecting. We are lucky to have the Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary, home to the endangered Hector’s dolphin. More

New Zealanders who care about Maui dolphin should prepare to feel embarrassed: the Government is about to be put to shame on the international stage for its lack of action to protect Maui’s dolphin. More

Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) are amazing and deserve your vote in Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Year competition.  They make one of the longest known bird migrations, flying an annual round trip of 64,000 kms across the entire Pacific Ocean; from New Zealand to feedin More