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Conservation Minister Nick Smith has met today with members of the Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Reinga) Working Party and Ngati Kuri kaumauta to discuss the working party report on the future management

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Education and Acting Science Minister Nick Smith today announced an initiative to evaluate science and mathematics education in world leading countries to see what New Zealand can learn from their

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched a competition to name this season's record-breaking additions to the kakapo population - four females and two males.

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Minister Invites Expressions of Interest to Adopt Horses

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Department of Conservation staff are ecstatic at the success of the Kakapo Recovery Programme that has seen a record seven chicks hatch, four of whom are female

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith yesterday met with representatives of Te Runanga o Ngati Porou to progress negotiations to finalise the 1990 deal to return Mount Hikurangi into Ngati Porou ownersh

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Conservation Minister, Nick Smith, today announced a further Crown contribution of $300,000 towards the purchase of the Otuataua volcanic stonefields, on the shores of Manukau Harbour, west of the

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith yesterday released twelve of the worlds rarest ducks onto a predator-free offshore island in a bid to seed a second wild population.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched the new Department of Conservation Trainee Ranger Programme at Nelson Polytechnic, at which the Director General, Hugh Logan, and Nelson Polytechnic

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government would initiate a formal investigation into a new National Park on Stewart Island by inviting the New Zealand Conservation Authority t

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith is angry at signs of kukupa (New Zealand woodpigeon) poaching early in the fruiting season and said the Department of Conservation was already receiving information

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that extensive protection works for Aoraki/Mount Cook village are underway and will be completed by July.

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Conservation Minister pressing for prosecution

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Four chicks and seven fertile eggs so far!

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Pohatu Marine Reserve on Akaroa Peninsula had cleared its last statutory hurdle.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a $1.6 million agreement between the Crown and the Aorangi Awarua Trust in the Central North Island to protect over 5,000ha of native forest, tussoc

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched Sea Week at the site of an illegal car dump on Himitangi Beach. Sea Week this year focuses on treasures of the coast.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that agreement had been reached with the Historic Places Trust on additional annual funding of $1.8million and a decentralised organisation that wil

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the surprise arrival of 2 kakapo chicks on Pearl Island, giving the third successive year of success for the Kakapo Recovery Programme.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that New Zealand sea lions in the sub-antarctic ocean do not appear to be showing any symptoms of last year's mystery illness and that a new net esc

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today authorised the capture of Rainbow Lorikeets in Auckland saying they posed a serious threat to New Zealand's native birds like the tui and kakariki, as well as

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a landmark conservation achievement at Cape Brett on Northland's East Coast.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today said that the agreement with Te Rawhiti 3B2 has been delayed.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched the Department of Conservation 's weed strategy on Motutapu Island, with sobering facts and figures about the threats of these space invaders.

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