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Speech at the purchase of 4000 hectares of Poplars Station in North Canterbury

Two thirds of a major high country station in North Canterbury has been purchased for recreation and conservation

Speech by Conservation Minister Chris Carter
Landscape Conference
Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland
25 July 2003

Nepalese Sherpas funded to train in conservation management in NZ

Speech to the ECO Conference, 27 June 2003, Auckland

New Zealand has maintained support for the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary at the International Whaling Commission despite stronger pro-whaling membership, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said today.

Major victory for whale preservation

Speech at British House of Commons

International Whaling Commission balanced on a knife edge

Campbell Island conservation sanctuary has been officially declared rat free following the largest rat eradication programme ever attempted in the world.

The Government's plan to conserve New Zealand's unique marine life

Tough new prison terms and fines are to be introduced for people who sabotage New Zealand's wildlife sanctuaries.

One of the most extensive intact tussock grasslands in New Zealand has become Otago's first conservation park, Conservation Minister Chris Carter announced today.

Speech delivered at the opening of Te Papanui tussock grassland conservation park

Te Matuku Bay off Waiheke Island is to become New Zealand's newest marine reserve, Conservation Minister Chris Carter announced today.

Fiji's decision to declare its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as a whale sanctuary is a major victory for whale preservation and a boost for the proposed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said today.

A slice of Southland native forest is to be set aside as a new reserve, the first negotiated under the Government's new SILNA conservation proposals, Conservation Minister Chris Carter

One of the largest blocks of privately owned native forest in the Waikato protected under new conservation covenant

A classic Coromandel Bay fringed with 2.5 km of white sandy beach is to be preserved for all New Zealanders thanks to a new purchase by the Department of
Conservation.

Conservation Minister Chris Carter today opened a new wetland reserve at Maungarakau on the Whanganui Inlet, north west of Nelson.

The new protection measures for Maui’s dolphin announced today are a huge success for all New Zealanders concerned with preserving our unique marine life, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said.

Comments by Iceland's Prime Minister that his country wants to follow the Japanese and resume "research whaling" are infuriating, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said today.

The first distribution of funding to improve indigenous biodiversity on private land was announced today by the Ministers for the Environment and Conservation, Marian Hobbs and Chris Carter, as part of the continuing implementation of the NZ Biodiversity Strategy.

Conservation Minister Chris Carter has called on the public to help protect New Zealand's wildlife sanctuaries from threats of sabotage.