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Tāngata Tuia te Ora, the Endangered Species Foundation, has submitted in opposition to the Conservation Amendment Bill, calling on the Environment Select Committee to recommend that it not proceed. The Bill would make up to 60% of public conservation land eligible for disposal or exchange, putting the taonga species that rely on those ecosystems at serious risk.

Fewer than a thousand matuku-hūrepo | Australasian bittern remain in Aotearoa. Ninety percent of their wetland habitat is gone. Now, a proposed four-lane highway threatens Doctors Hill wetland in Northland, one of the last places these taonga birds can call home.

The 2025-26 breeding season for tara iti/New Zealand fairy tern has delivered genuine cause for optimism, with 11 chicks fledging successfully despite a challenging summer of predation pressure, wild weather, and anxious moments.