Kiwi population shrinking
"Fewer than 15 North Island brown kiwi are thought to be surviving in western Bay
of Plenty, sparking fresh fears for the survival ... will be extinct there within four
years unless action is taken"
New Zealand Herald 20 December 2004
Moas in decline before humans arrived
"Humans may not be entirely to blame for wiping out moas ... a huge moa
population existed in the few thousand years before the arrival of humans"
New Scientist 10 November 2004
DoC losing battle to save rarest species
"The Department of Conservation is failing to stop the slide to extinction of more
than half of New Zealand's rare plants and wildlife ..."
New Zealand Herald 25 October 2004
Petitions oppose marine reserve
"Three petitions with the names of nearly 900 people objecting to a marine reserve
at Mimiwhangata ..."
New Zealand Herald 11 October 2004
Ocean-roaming birds under threat
"Every year between 50 and 100 million longline hooks are set in the Southern Ocean
... lines trail behind fishing boats for up to 130km as they move into the most
far-flung waters in search of new fishing grounds ..."
New Zealand Herald 9 October 2004
Nets leave a trail of death in the sea
"It's quiet at the bottom of the ocean and dark where sunlight never reaches.
But illuminate it with artificial light and strange life emerges"
New Zealand Herald 9 October 2004
Thin glaciers get thinner in Antarctica
"Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough
to raise sea levels measurably, scientists have reported ..."
New Zealand Herald 25 September 2004
Axe taken to $300m hoki quota
"The Government has taken drastic steps to rebuild the deepwater hoki fishery,
slashing the allowable commercial catch by 80,000 tonnes to 100,000 tonnes ..."
New Zealand Herald 24 September 2004
Bill Brownell: Marine reserve won't make much difference to Barrier
"... local communities should focus on how to work with the Dept of
Conservation ... to make sustainable profits from celebrating
the beauty and diversity of marine life rather than killing it ..."
New Zealand Herald 26 August 2004
Fish expert sounds warning on stocks
"The future for global fisheries is not rosy ... governments should be setting aside
up to half of fishing grounds as marine reserves to ensure the future of sea life ..."
New Zealand Herald 17 August 2004
Kakapo being fed antibiotics twice a day
"Most of the juvenile kakapo highly valued by the breeders trying to bring the species
back from the brink of extinction are now being dosed with antibiotics ..."
New Zealand Herald 19 July 2004
Ocean CO2 may 'harm marine life'
"Nearly 50% of the carbon dioxide that humans have pumped into the atmosphere over
the last 200 years has been absorbed by the sea ..."
BBC NEWS 15 July 2004
$14bn cost of protecting oceans
"A team of UK scientists has come up with a cost for establishing a global network of
marine "parks" to protect threatened ocean ecosystems ..."
BBC NEWS 15 June 2004
Urgent action call on US climate
"Ten leading US climate scientists spoke on Tuesday of the need for more urgent action
to tackle global warming ..."
BBC NEWS 15 June 2004
World faces seeping flood crisis
"The number of people under threat from major flooding will double to two billion
within 50 years, the UN warns ..."
BBC NEWS 13 June 2004
Ice cores unlock climate secrets
"Global climate patterns stretching back 740,000 years have been confirmed by a
three-kilometre-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic ..."
BBC NEWS 9 June 2004
Disaster movie makes waves
"But could the climate crash 'the day after tomorrow'?"
Nature, Science Update 12 May 2004
New island sanctuaries to fight extinction of signature species
"Conservation Minister Chris Carter today announced a $7 million project to create two
island sanctuaries for threatened native wildlife around mainland New Zealand ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 May 2004
Wetter world predicted to counter greenhouse gases
"Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than
first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants
to grow and soak up greenhouse gases ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 May 2004
Government plays down discovery of contaminated seeds
"The Government today played down a discovery of imported maize seed contaminated with
genetically engineered (GE) material saying while New Zealand's zero tolerance law had
been broken, contamination was 'minuscule'..."
New Zealand Herald 12 May 2004
Harvest fears as MAF starts search for lost seed
"Thousands of genetically modified maize plants may have been harvested in the country's
biggest accidental release of GM-contaminated seed ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 May 2004
Global warming could soon make Antarctica the only place to live, says
chief British scientist
"Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century
if global warming remains unchecked ..."
New Zealand Herald 2 May 2004
Speed up RMA, says business
"Business groups are adamant that the Resource Management Act needs a major
overhaul - despite criticism that they are living in the past and ignoring improvements
already being made ..."
New Zealand Herald 5 April 2004
Dealing with the RMA backlog
"The chief executive of the Ministry for the Environment told the Business Herald that
he would fix the time it took to deal with problems plaguing the resource consent process
within 12 months ... That was just over a year ago ..."
New Zealand Herald 5 April 2004
Who killed Project Aqua
"The demise of Project Aqua prompted alarm calls that New Zealand's bureaucratic hurdles
were the death knell of any major project ..."
New Zealand Herald 4 April 2004
Less rain in a warmer world
"Global warming and pollution could give us drier days ..."
Nature, Science Update 1 April 2004
First kokako hatchings for 100 years in Hawkes Bay
"It's been more than a century since a kokako was born in Hawkes Bay. But that changed
on Friday with the hatching of two eggs at the Department of Conservation's Boundary
Stream reserve ..."
New Zealand Herald 28 January 2004
While north froze NZ might have stayed temperate
"New Zealand scientists have found evidence that the Southern Hemisphere may have
escaped the extremes of the last Ice Age which froze much of Europe, Russia and
North America ..."
New Zealand Herald 26 January 2004
Tuatara to get new lease on life as rats wiped out
"Tuatara are expected to thrive on Little Barrier Island again, with the announcement
that the Pacific rat kiore is to be eradicated ..."
New Zealand Herald 26 January 2004
Kokako chicks bring hope of regeneration
"For the first time in 60 years kokako chicks have been hatched in the wild at
Mt Bruce bird reserve ..."
New Zealand Herald 26 January 2004
Plan to pull big snail from brink
"They are the sumo wrestlers of the snail world, as big as a man's fist and able to
out-slide then suck up unsuspecting slugs and worms like humans eat spaghetti ..."
New Zealand Herald 22 January 2004
Buried Treasures: Stink surrounds GM onions
"... the Environmental Risk Management Authority (Erma) has signalled that genetic
experiments will no longer get an easy ride to approval ..."
New Zealand Herald 20 January 2004
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