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Minister of Conservation Nick Smith has rejected a report commissioned by the Business Round Table, which calls for access changes, privatisation of conservation land, private ownership of endanger

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, today released the Department of Conservation's paper on Issues and options for managing the impacts of deer on native forests and other ecosystems.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Associate Education Minister, Nick Smith, today presented plans projecting 36 new schools in the Auckland area to a meeting of Mayors, their chief executives and Members of Parliament.

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Education

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today announced, in Northland, the protection of a 654 hectare area of indigenous forest under a Nga Whenua Rahui kawenata (covenant).

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Government is working to establish grievance panels for children and young people in Department of Social Welfare residential care, says Associate Minister of Social Welfare, Hon.

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Welfare

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith, says his door still remains open to negotiate with the Wild Horse Trust take the remaining 100 horses mustered from the Kaimanawa ranges.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Governor-General has appointed Judge Arthur Middleton to the position of Deputy Chairperson, Social Security Appeal Authority, the Associate Minister of Social Welfare Hon. Dr.

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Welfare

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today announced the discovery of a previously unknown bird, on a island south of the Campbell Islands.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Associate Minister of Social Welfare, Hon. Dr. Nick Smith today confirmed that Cabinet has decided on the appointment of a deputy chairman to the Social Security Appeal Authority.

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Welfare

The Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith today released details of a new recreation reserve at Thornes Bay, Takapuna.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has asked the New Zealand Conservation Authority to review the general policy that prohibits mountain biking in National Parks.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith, today announced the purchase, by the Department of Conservation, of a key privately-owned section of the Waipori-Waihola wetland complex south of Dunedin.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today officially opened New Zealand's 14th marine reserve, Te Angiangi, on the east coast of central Hawke's Bay.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith said today that all New Zealanders will benefit from an increase of 34,000 hectares of land for conservation, as a result of the Ngai Tahu settlement.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today visited the site of one of the world's rarest wading birds, the black stilt, releasing some of the last years offspring.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith, said the sentencing of Frederick Angell in Nelson District Court today sent a clear message that commercial exploitation of New Zealand's native wildlife wo

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The progress made in dealing with the issue of customary use of traditional animals and plants.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today approved the first Regional Coastal Plan for the country.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today announced that he has approved the classification of the New Zealand (Hooker's) sea lion as a "threatened species" under the provisions of the Marine M

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

This year's Conservation Week will show what can be achieved when the whole community makes a commitment to conservation, Minister of Conservation Nick Smith said today.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation, the Hon Nick Smith, and the MP for Te Tai Rawhiti, the Hon Tuariki Delamere, completed a unique partnership between local Maori and the Crown today at Tukaki Marae nea

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith today announced that a proposal to create an ecological area over the saltmarsh and adjacent dry land and intertidal area at Aramoana near the entrance to O

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Minister of Conservation Nick Smith today announced that auctions for the Kaimanawa wild horses will start on 2 August.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

"Prompt action is required to prevent the deaths of New Zealand albatrosses in fishing operations," says the Minister of Conservation.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation