Biodiversity
Our goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its amazing diversity. That means we want to protect biodiversity in all its forms – from the ecosystems at the bottom of the sea, to the fragile balance of our soils. We are in a biodiversity crisis. One million species are now at risk of extinction, and in New Zealand, we have the highest proportion of native species at risk. This is a shocking report card for our planet, and we must work together to restore it.
Things you can do
We want you to take action because together we’re strong.
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Oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill
Make a submission opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill today using our quick submission builder.
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PETITION: Stop the corporate power grab RMA reforms
The Luxon Government has launched another attack on nature and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Former Big Tobacco lobbyist turned Minister, Chris Bishop, is planning to rewrite our core environmental protection law – the RMA – to gut protections for nature, erase the Treaty of Waitangi, and turn land ownership into a license to pollute. And…
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Ban Bottom Trawling on Seamounts
At home and far out to sea, our oceans are being plundered for profit by the fishing industry through bottom trawling. But what is bottom trawling and why is it so destructive to ocean habitats?
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Latest trawl bycatch numbers a grim wake-up call
The latest fisheries bycatch data paints a grim picture, with trawlers hauling up thousands of kilograms of coral and killing hundreds of fur seals and seabirds over a 12 month…
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Regulatory Standards Bill submission guide
This is a handy guide to help you make your submission before 1pm Monday 23 June. It covers what the bill is, why you should make a submission and how you can do it.
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Greenpeace submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill
We thank the Select Committee for the opportunity to submit on The Regulatory Standards Bill. Greenpeace strongly opposes the Bill and recommends that it be rejected in its entirety.
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NZ First or ACT first – Will Winston bend the knee to the Regulatory Standards Bill?
The Government passed the first reading of David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill through Parliament and alarmingly, it appears that NZ First might support it all the way to becoming law.
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ACT’s regulatory standards bill threatens to pass, despite Treaty and legal doubts
With the ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill now before the Finance and Expenditure Committee, having passed its first reading in parliament last week, parallels with the now abandoned Treaty Principles…
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Regulatory Standards Bill inflicts ACT’s far-right principles on Aotearoa
The Government is facing backlash over David Seymour’s controversial Regulatory Standards Bill which passed its first reading today, under the shadow of the Budget.
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Govt ridiculed over deeply ironic use of urgency for Regulatory Standards Bill
The Government’s use of urgency for the first reading of the Regulatory Standards Bill, introduced by ACT leader David Seymour, is being ridiculed by Greenpeace as deeply ironic.
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Leading Environmental organisations issue joint letter calling on the Prime Minister to reject the Regulatory Standards Bill
Four of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading environmental organisations have today issued a joint open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, urging him to reject the Regulatory Standards Bill in full.
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The Regulatory Standards Bill is Seymour’s next power grab
The Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) isn’t just another law – it’s a plan to hand more power to corporations, erase Te Tiriti o Waitangi from lawmaking, and make it harder for any future government to protect people or nature.