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Stewart Island is to be the site of New Zealand's newest national park.

I'm pleased to be here today to support the "0800 Participate" campaign.

The government today acknowledged the role the Green Party played in developing Budget initiatives announced in the Eco 2001 package.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee says DOC is entering a new phase of asset management, now that the detailed inspection and remedial work on its more than 15,000 visitor platforms and structures is nearing completion.

The Government today released its 'Eco 2001' package, announcing new funding to enhance the protection and conservation of our unique animal and plant species under the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.

The Associate Minister of Biosecurity, Marian Hobbs, has announced a survey of selected South Island wetlands, rivers and lakes, to determine whether eradication of two unwanted fish species is possible.

Mr Speaker,

Ki te hunga kua mene atu
ki ngâ Hawaiki katoa
nâ te roimata ngâtahi e whakaea

To those who have departed
to Hawaiki, to paradise,
We pay solemn tribute,
and remember them with tears entwined.

Conservation Minster Hon Sandra Lee has welcomed support from Caribbean countries for a South Pacific whale sanctuary.

New Zealand’s Minister of Conservation Sandra Lee said the intention of New Zealand and Australia to submit the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary proposal to the International Whaling Commission meeting in London in July met with the unanimous support in pr

E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga maunga, nga awa, nga moana iti me nga moana rahi,
koutou o nga hau e wha, tenei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.
Na matou i tangi a matou mate, na koutou i tangi a koutou mate, me ki na tatou katoa.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that a land swap between two farming families and DOC has added a significant area of Lake Ellesmere wetland to New Zealand's conservation heritage.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee is looking forward to consultation between her department and Meridian Energy before the company lodges resource consent applications for the $970M Lower Waitaki hydro scheme it announced today.

Legislation introduced today will allow Government departments to be prosecuted for breaches of health and safety and building legislation.

Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints. That’s the message from the New Zealand Youth Hostels Association and the Minister of Conservation, encouraging track walkers to bring their rubbish out of the New Zealand bush.

Proposals for the logging of an area of windthrown rimu trees in the South World Heritage Area near Haast have been turned down by Conservation Minister Sandra Lee.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee is calling for nominations to fill casual vacancies on New Zealand's 14-conservation boards.

The Minister of Conservation Sandra Lee, responding to the release of a report by the Maori Affairs Committee on Lake Omapere, said she understood the anguish of the Lake Omapere Maori Trustees as they watched their privately-owned lake degrade.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced her intention to create a conservation park to protect 22,000 hectares of high country on Canterbury's Torlesse Range.

(Mihi)
Thank you for your warm welcome today.
Let me first apologise for the absence of my ministerial colleague, Hon Mark Burton. He has a prior engagement and is unable to be here but sends his best wishes for today's events.

The Minister of Local Government Hon Sandra Lee has welcomed the election of a new Mayor and councillors for the Rodney District Council, almost a year after she replaced the previous councillors with a Commissioner.

Government policy on the control of deer on public conservation lands is based on ecological science according to Conservation Minister Sandra Lee.

The Minister of Local Government declined to comment other than to say if there had been a sin-bin when she was a councillor, she may well have ended up in it.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee will lead the New Zealand delegation to ministerial talks next month (18-20 April), in Apia, on progressing a joint proposal with Australia for a South Pacific whale sanctuary.

Thank you for inviting me here this evening.