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Conservation Minister Chris Carter says the legal impediment to the Dobson Dam power proposal remains the same as it did when the scheme was first mooted four years ago.

Public conservation lands on the West Coast are supporting more than 1800 jobs.

New possum control to preserve parea pigeon on Chatham Islands

New Zealand's 19th marine reserve achieved 18 years after it was first proposed

The South Island High Country gains a network of conservation parks and reserves

Joint venture deal with high country farmers to protect 10,000 hectares of spectacular high country landscapes

PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner appointed to guide development of new Auckland transport body

A $7m project will create two of the largest island sanctuaries for threatened native wildlife around mainland New Zealand

Government leading a joint venture deal to save Kaikoura Island

A spectacular Nelson property and habitat for carnivorous land snails purchased for public

A kiwi crèche is among 139 projects on private land to benefit from government funding

Rat and stoat population risk triggers conservation emergency response to save orange fronted kakariki

The number of albatross killed in New Zealand fisheries is set to drop due to new national action plan

Delivered: Parliament

Technological breakthrough for Archey's frog

Underground mine approved on West Coast

Quarry expansion declined to protect nationally critical plant species

The government has reviewed ways it might intervene to try to prevent a lahar or mudslide from the Crater Lake on Mount Ruapehu

The people and Government of New Zealand thank the people and Government of Malaysia for hosting this important international meeting, which seeks to promote better international protection for the earth's biodiversity.

A huge high country station and haven for the critically endangered black stilt has been purchased by the Government

Little Barrier Island (Hauturu), one of the most important sites for primeval biodiversity in the country, is to be cleared of rats this year.

New recovery plans for threatened native snails

Claims that DoC spends little on weed control are totally false

New Zealand's largest farm will be permanently protected as a unique high country park