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Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand was created
by Captain Val Sanderson in 1923. He had returned home from World War
I to find Kapiti Island drastically altered from its former state. Initially
Captain Sanderson created Forest and Bird to protect Kapiti Island, today
the focus of Forest and Bird has become much broader and works to protect
all of New Zealand.
Forest and Bird is New Zealand’s largest national
conservation organization. The Travelers Conservation Trust recently
established a
relationship with Forest and Bird because they are active on a wide range
of conservation and environmental issues. These include the protection
of native forests, tussock grasslands, wetlands, marine ecosystems, energy
and resource conservation, sustainable fisheries and land management.
Forest and Bird is also involved in South Pacific rainforest conservation
and is working to ensure the protection of Antarctica from environmental
damage.
PROJECTS
- Protection of all major remaining North Island
native forests from clearing and logging during the 1980s.
- Declaration
of the South West World Heritage Area in 1989.
- Creation of the Pollen
Island Marine Reserve in the Waitemata Harbor.
- Creation of marine reserves
around the Kermadec Islands, at Mayor Island and on the Coromandel,
Hawkes Bay, Kapiti and Taranaki coasts.
- Publicizing the chronic under-funding
of the Department of Conservation, resulting in modest funding increases
for threatened species work.
- Creating the Kahurangi National Park in
North West Nelson.
- Negotiation of agreements with major forest industry
groups to protect large areas of privately owned native forest and
set principles for
sound environmental practices in New Zealand’s plantation forest
industry.
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more about their current projects...
BENEFITS OF FOREST AND BIRD MEMBERSHIP
- Forest & Bird magazine, published by Forest and Bird, four times
a year.
- Regular issues of Conservation News, published by Forest
and Bird, containing the latest in environmental news.
- Information
about trips, walks and conservation projects in your area.
- Opportunities
to stay at Forest and Bird’s reasonably priced
lodges around the country.
- Gain satisfaction from the knowledge
that you are contributing to the conservation and protection of New
Zealand’s native wildlife
and wild places.
REFERENCES
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society
of New Zealand Inc. 2001. 25 Sept, 2003 <www.forest-bird.org.nz>.
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