Letters sent to west Auckland iwi and local board members about a proposal to fell two large kauri trees in Titirangi did not mention the protected trees would be included in “vegetation” to be removed from the site.
Consent processes regarding the removal of a mature kauri tree on a Titirangi section were correctly followed, a report by Auckland Council has concluded.
Michael Tavares has entered a guilty plea in the Waitakere District Court for wilful trespass.
The Ministry for the Environment has released figures showing that carbon pollution, which New Zealand is adding to, increased 42 per cent globally.
The man charged with trespass after the Titirangi kauri protest has appeared in court.
A former New Zealand hockey player has been appointed to help head Government efforts to manage the environment and natural resources.
Climate Change Minister Tim Groser yesterday said that for the past six years afforestation had exceeded deforestation.
The man who spent four days up a kauri tree to save it from destruction is elated after developers pledged to keep the tree.
The giant kauri at the centre of a protest in West Auckland will be allowed to stay, it's been revealed in an open letter released by the properties' owners.
China's Environment Minister has promised to confront an environmental challenge "unprecedented in human history" after an online film exposing his country's pollution crisis went viral with more than 100 million hits in two days.
Long-promised law changes designed to make housing in New Zealand more affordable will be unveiled today as the Government makes its second attempt at reforming the Resource Management Act.
The Government was warned a recycling contractor was collecting an excessive salary and his company was insolvent months before his firm collapsed losing millions of taxpayer dollars.
New Zealand is “off track” in transitioning to a low-carbon future amid increasing international pressure to slash emissions, according to a Government briefing.
Shell Todd Oil has drilled two wells off the coast of Taranaki without marine consent, the Green Party says.
The Green Party has dismissed the new bottom lines as "weak" and argues the measures mean rivers will only have to be clean enough for wading or boating.
When journalist Ian Wishart unfolded a letter from the Ministry for the Environment he started to laugh.
The Government has just set best-practice guidelines for fracking in various parts of the country.
Upper North Island residents who have unwanted TV sets following Sunday's digital switchover are being urged to drop them off for recycling.
The RMA exists to help work out the right conditions, as well as manage effects, which under O'Reilly's approach would not occur, writes Claire Browning.
Another government agency has apologised for another privacy breach.
To disguise what it is doing, the Beehive has ordered the Ministry for the Environment to abandon the five-yearly State of the Environment round-up report, writes Neville Peat.
The Government's climate change policy is a shambles and a disgrace, writes Brian Fallow. "Unless, that is, you are happy for the costs of the inevitable adjustment to a low-carbon future to be needlessly increased."
Authorities given ultimatum to help increase supply of affordable housing.