Displaying items by tag: Fish and Game

The 2025 game bird season is underway with Hawke’s Bay and Southland reporting the ideal weather conditions for hunters – rain and wind.

OPINION: Irate Southland farmers are on the money denying anglers access across their land.

An independent review of Fish & Game will provide an “organisational health check”, according to the Government.

The Government has announced that the duck shooting season will go ahead – albeit delayed until NZ goes into Level 2. 

Dairy isn’t the backbone of the economy; the environment is, says Fish & Game New Zealand (F&GNZ).

Fish & Game New Zealand should recognise farmers’ good work in cleaning up the environment rather than constantly criticising them, says Federated Farmers environment spokesman Chris Allen.

It looks like the next attack on farming will take the form of a campaign against winter grazing and the negative impact this can have on livestock and water quality.

Horizons Regional Council unveiled its One Plan some ten years ago as the plan to end all plans.

Fish and Game and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) may seek costs against Horizons Regional Council as a result of the Environment Court siding with their claims about the unlawfulness of the implementation of the One Plan.

“We just want to get on with it,” say Manawatu dairy farmers reacting to news that Horizons Regional Council’s One Plan implementation has effectively been ruled unlawful by the Environment Court.