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"How will the Crown's ownership and purchase interests in science and technology evolve as private investment in R & D expands".

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has lodged a formal complaint with Police over a guide for sabotage and eco-terrorism on the Greens' Internet site.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has lodged a formal complaint with Police over a guide for sabotage and eco-terrorism on the Greens' Internet site.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that he had approved the major Resource Management Act (RMA) consents for the new Clifford Bay Port development proposed by Tranz Rail.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today officially opened New Zealand's sixteenth and largest mainland marine reserve, Te Tapuwae o Rongokako in a dawn ceremony at the reserve, sixteen kilometres no

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that Three Foot Six Ltd, the company behind Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings production, has been granted consents to film on several areas of publ

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today signed an agreement with Ports of Auckland Ltd that will see Pollen Island transferred to the Department of Conservation and managed as a scientific reserve.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today congratulated the groups involved in the construction of the Otira Viaduct on the project's approach to conservation of the area.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced Government approval for a $800,000 upgrade of the Whakapapa Visitor Centre involving substantial expansion of the building, new interactive displays

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today said Government's $10.9 million investment in the protection of 3300 ha of virgin indigenous forest on Stewart Island was a sound strategic investment that wo

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister, Nick Smith today announced the protection of the habitat containing the largest surviving population of both the Otago and grand skinks in a major land swap deal.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Rakiura Maori Lands Trust Chair Graham Lloyd today signed a historic deed of settlement and deed of covenant to protect 3,515 hectares of native forest at the L

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced grants of $90,000 and $30.000 from the Nature Heritage Fund for the purchase of two bush remnants on the Port Hills.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

We've heard a lot in recent times about the recently reinvigorated activities of the "Brain Drain".

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith said Labour's Conservation Policy is short on detail, and if their previous performance is anything to go by, conservation will again be relegated to the margin of

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Wellington Town Hall

I want to focus my discussion on biodiversity - and its relationship to sustainable land management.

  • Simon Upton
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is bitterly disappointed at Labour's decision today to vote against the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill and said the Government had withdrawn the Bill from further co

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced his approval of the 948 ha Marine Reserve between Cable Bay and the Glen, north of Nelson, as proposed by the Nelson Royal Forest and Bird Protectio

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced plans to tighten the controls on ferrets by launching a public discussion document "What can we do about ferrets?"

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is disappointed that Public Access New Zealand is to legally challenge the return of Mt Hikurangi to Ngati Porou and the new  access agreement that has been ne

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation and Education Minister Nick Smith today launched Clean Up New Zealand in Wellington with Ian Kiernan, founder of Clean Up the World by joining 200 pupils from Lyall Bay School to help

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Associate Fisheries Minister David Carter today announced that the Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine Reserve has received concurrence of Ministers and will be offic

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the achievement of a significant step towards settling Ngaati Ruanui's Treaty of Waitangi claim the signing of a Heads of Agreement by Ngaati Ruanui

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is astonished at Labour's decision to pull their support on the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and has urged Labour to reconsider.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation