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Conservation Minister Sandra Lee has reminded boaties and fishers to take care around predator-free islands this summer.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee today paid tribute to Wellington conservationist Bing Lucas who died while on a family tramp on the Queen Charlotte Walkway in the Marlborough Sounds on Sunday.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee will discuss the proposed Rakiura/Stewart Island national park with local communities when she visits Invercargill and Oban in just under two weeks time.

The column Rudman's city ( NZ Herald on 17 November), criticises the QE ll National Trust for their handling of the Glenoaks property in Howick.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the new Chairperson of the NZ Conservation Authority is Kerry Marshall of Richmond, Nelson.

Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I appreciate the constructive role Forest and Bird has played and continues to play in the conservation movement of New Zealand.

New Zealand has a proud reputation as a country that seeks the greatest possible protection for whales worldwide and one that is strongly opposed to a return to commercial whaling.

The Minister of Conservation, Sandra Lee, has called on the World Council of Whalers meeting in Nelson, New Zealand, to register a protest against the departure of the Japanese whaling fleet for Antarctic waters, where it intends killing up to 440 minke

Maud the takahe, transferred from the Marlborough Sounds to the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland to avoid getting beaten up by other takahe, is the proud mother of a small chick, the Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee announced today.

The Government is not supporting or facilitating the World Council of Whalers conference which is being hosted and organised in Nelson by Te Ohu Kai Moana and Nga Iwi o Te Tauihu o Te Waka a Maui. The Government directs neither of these organisations.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Tongariro Taupo Conservancy will be spending extra funding of nearly $1million over the next five years to establish a 16,000ha kiwi sanctuary.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Auckland Conservancy will be spending an extra $894,375 this year on protecting the region’s biodiversity as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strategy funding packa

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Bay of Plenty Conservancy will be spending an extra $75,375 this year on protecting the region’s biodiversity as a result of the Government's Biodiversity funding package.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Canterbury Conservancy will be spending an extra $392,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strateg

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's East Coast-Hawke’s Bay Conservancy will be spending an extra $232,760 this year on protecting the region’s biodiversity as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strate

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Nelson-Marlborough Conservancy will be spending an extra $700,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of the Government's Biodiversit

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Otago Conservancy will be spending an extra $343,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of a Government funding package.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department’s Waikato Conservancy will be spending another $1.13m this year on protecting the region’s biodiversity as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strategy funding package.

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department’s Wanganui Conservancy will be spending an extra $157,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strategy

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's Wellington Conservancy will be spending an extra $305,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of the Government's Biodiversity Strate

The Minister of Conservation Hon Sandra Lee has announced that the Department's West Coast Conservancy will be spending an extra $816,000 this year on protecting the region’s unique animals and plants as a result of the Government's Biodiversity funding

The Minister of Conservation, Hon Sandra Lee, says New Zealand has been termed "a model country" in an International Fund for Animal Welfare report, for the careful management of its whale watching activities.

Deputy Alliance leader Sandra Lee says the coalition government has kept a major promise to end the unsustainable logging of Crown-managed West Coast indigenous forest, with the passing of the Forests (West Coast Accord) Bill today.

The 100th anniversary of Egmont National Park will draw the Prime Minister and the Minister of Conservation to separate functions on Friday (20 October), to re-open public facilities refurbished to mark the centenary.