Mentions of Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand in New Zealand Parliament debates
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand has been mentioned in 46 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Third Readings 11 May 2011
BRENDON BURNS ... line and improve environmental quality and enforce protection. Already we are seeing Fish and Game New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the Environmental Defence Society, the Water Rights Trust, and others say that that national policy statement on fresh ...
Environmental Protection Authority Bill
In Committee 5 May 2011
DAVID CLENDON ... the Environmental Defence Society, the umbrella group Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and numerous smaller but very credible and articulate groups who had opinions about the bill. For so many of them the ...
General Debate 6 Apr 2011
Hon PETER DUNNE ... this initiative from a number of organisations that have an interest in this area. I am very disappointed that the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society has chosen to take a negative and somewhat inaccurate view of things. This is not about charging New Zealand hunters for ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
METIRIA TUREI ... the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, the Save Happy Valley Coalition, and the World Wild Fund for Nature New Zealand are at the front line of New ...
Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
In Committee 2 Jun 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... pleasure to be patron of. They are groups like the conservation boards, the Waitakere Ranges Protection Society, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the Laingholm community association, and many, many others. Westies care about their communities. The same people who ...
Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Bill
In Committee 31 Mar 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... he does not want us or the people of Canterbury to know ahead of time what the terms of reference will be. As the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society has said, this is a bill to fast track the building of dams in Canterbury. That is what it is all about. I predict that ...
BRENDON BURNS ... patiently negotiated for the future of Canterbury, had a table that included representatives of Fish and Game, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Federated Farmers, the irrigators, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Fisheries, Ngāi Tahu, and the councils. ...
Second Reading 30 Mar 2010
AMY ADAMS ... better protects our water management. That has not happened in Canterbury for a long time. It needs to happen. The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the Environmental Defence Society, and the Water Rights Trust are all telling us that that needs to happen. This is not ...
First Reading 30 Mar 2010
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... That is the right time to abolish them! What a brilliant time to abolish them—just as they are doing well! The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society calls this bill the fast track to dams, and that is what this bill is. It is an attack on the water conservation order ...
General Debate 24 Mar 2010
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... It is not a decision; it is a discussion document. Immediately after we released that document, the mischievous Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society went on a membership drive. After the release of the document, the society said the Government was going to target ...
JACQUI DEAN ... that brings on such hysteria amongst people? I have here a membership drive on behalf of Labour’s mates, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, that makes some pretty extraordinary claims. In this broadsheet, it says “Dear Ms Dean. Help us stop the mining of our ...
JACQUI DEAN ... on the Kakapo Recovery Programme. That is not news; that is well known to people, even to Labour’s mates such as the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. Rio Tinto gifted 80 hectares of land to the public as part of its Kakapo Recovery Programme, and has injected well over $3...
JACQUI DEAN ... That is a significant impact brought around by a mining operation. I seek leave to table this document from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society.
Financial Review Debate - In Committee
In Committee 16 Mar 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... on to say “This is landmark legislation for the conservation movement in New Zealand.” Those who were involved—the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society in particular—were heralded by him for their role in developing such important legislation, but now that they speak up ...
Reports — Complaint Regarding the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SR 2009/73)—Consideration of Interim Report of Regulations Review Committee 9 Dec 2009
JACINDA ARDERN ... role of scrutinising all regulations that are gazetted. Those complaints come from Dr Russel Norman and also from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. I want to acknowledge those groups, in particular the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, for voicing the ...
Customs and Excise (Sustainable Forestry) Amendment Bill
First Reading 18 Nov 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... the New Zealand Pine Manufacturers, the Forestry Industry Contractors Association, the Douglas-fir Association, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, the World Wide Fund for Nature New Zealand, ...
Marine Animals Protection Law Reform Bill
First Reading 29 Jul 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... been a 50 percent decline in the Auckland Island’s population of the Hooker’s sea lion. I got that statistic from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and I trust it to be correct. If we think the population of that sea lion is getting better, I can tell members that in ...
Environment
Freshwater Management Reform—Landcare Trust Funding Increase 26 Oct 2010
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... improve water quality. The Landcare Trust—a partnership between Federated Farmers, Fish and Game New Zealand, and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society—was founded in 1996. The then National Government provided baseline funding of $400,000 per year but it has not been ...
Freshwater Management Reform—Proposed National Policy Statement 22 Sep 2010
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... Land and Water Forum report. We hugely welcome it. The fact that we have organisations like Federated Farmers and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society coming to a consensus around the way forward on freshwater management is, the Government thinks, a huge step forward. We ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... the Land and Water Forum’s report is that we have key environmental organisations like Fish and Game New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the Ecologic Foundation, and the Environmental Defence Society recognising the economic opportunities that go with storage,...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH I draw the member’s attention to exactly what the Land and Water Forum, representing 58 organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Fish and Game, and the Ecologic Foundation, said, which was that the current draft is a basis to work from. They are not ...
Freshwater Management Reform—Progress 22 Sep 2010
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... on the vexed issue of indigenous forests. It is significant that organisations as diverse as Federated Farmers, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Fish and Game, and Fonterra are recommending a way forward on how to progress better management of fresh water.
Environment Court—Increase in Filing Fee 30 Apr 2009
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN Does he agree with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society regarding the increase in the Environment Court filing fee from $55 to $500 that the fee increase of over 900 percent will ...
Hon SIMON POWER Although the Minister supports the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society in its work, he does not agree that the increase in the filing fee will act as a significant barrier to representation in ...
Dr Russel Norman If the Minister does not agree with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, does he agree with the statement made in 2004 by the National Party’s then environment spokesperson, Dr Nick Smith, that ...
Hon SIMON POWER The Minister is aware of the assertion to that effect made in a submission by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, but he does not agree with the conclusion.
Hon SIMON POWER ... to advocate for the public interest in resource management cases at the Environment Court and other courts. The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society itself has had five applications to this fund approved since January 2008, totalling, I am advised, $147,000.
Agriculture
Water Quality—Dairying and Clean Streams Accord 12 Mar 2009
Hon DAVID CARTER ... accord is voluntary. I note that three press releases have been put out today criticising the progress: one by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, one by the Fish and Game Council, and one by the Green Party. It looks to me as though all three press releases were ...
Hon DAVID CARTER ... information today, but I say to the member that when I read his press release, when I read the press release from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and when I read the press release from Fish and Game New Zealand, I see that too much time is spent criticising the ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2009
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... of the Cypress mine appeal, where the Buller Conservation Group, under section 274, joined as an interested party the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, which had appealed. They were able to fund a lawyer, an ecologist, and a landscape architect, and that helped the ...
First Reading 19 Feb 2009
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... by developers and should, therefore, be entitled to participate in the process. It is only organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Greenpeace, Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, Environmental Defence Society, and a host of local ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
Second Reading 17 Dec 2008
DAVID GARRETT ... or tramper—I am a getting a bit long in the tooth for it—but I know many people in the conservation movement, in the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and other organisations of that kind. I have not heard any of them suggest we should dam another river. As far as I am ...
Walking Access Bill
Second Reading 26 Aug 2008
JACQUI DEAN ... the most telling. I will paint the picture for members. We heard submissions from a number of interest groups: the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society; the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, which gave good submissions; four-wheel drive enthusiasts; and tramping and ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 31 Jul 2008
NICKY WAGNER ... was, quite rightly, slated by several non-governmental organisations, including Fish and Game New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and the Water Rights Trust from Canterbury. The final statement was no better. It is vague, it is wishy-washy, and any ...
Conservation
Marine Protection—Progress 31 Jul 2008
Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... will come into force in 28 days’ time. I would like to congratulate the applicants, the Wellington branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and the Wellington South Coast Marine Reserve Coalition, on their dedication to this project.
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill
Third Reading 2 Apr 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ...Society; Bruce and Trixie Harvey, Kath Dewar and their colleagues at the society; Dr Peter Maddison and Ken Catt of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society; Tim O’Shea of the Henderson Valley Residents and Ratepayers Association; the late Ian Henderson and his wife June, and ...
Electoral Finance Bill, Broadcasting Amendment Bill (No 3), Electoral Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 18 Dec 2007
Hon PETE HODGSON ... We saw no reason to do that. Whoever had an interest—be they the SPCA, the Chambers of Commerce, the unions, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Grey Power, or Māori—could take part in the quest for the offices of the land, and could do so without any regulation, at ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... they did in earlier years, but they may want to contribute to the political process by joining organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and Greenpeace. The National Party recognises this. We did not want the term “third party”. We preferred the term “intereste...
Justice
Electoral Finance Bill—Community Groups 6 Sep 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... caught by the provisions of this bill. Yet the impression given by the National Party is that such activities as the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s excellent Kiwi Conservation Club for kids will be caught—the sort of campaign I am sure that members in this House have ...
General Debate 5 Sep 2007
SANDRA GOUDIE ... they are out there; they are keeping an eye on this and waiting to see which way the Government jumps—Greenpeace, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and Plunket, every one of those groups, and all of the people who took an interest in the trans-Tasman Therapeutic ...
Prime Minister
Environment, Minister—Confidence 28 Sep 2011
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... in substantive water-quality improvements and that has the support of key organisations like Fish and Game and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. The truth is that there are irrigation proposals that can also improve water quality.
Canterbury—Hurunui River Water Conservation Order Application 20 Apr 2010
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN Did he read the letter from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society dated 3 December 2009 alerting him to the fact that the Minister of Agriculture had asked applicants for a water ...
Canterbury—Hurunui River Water Conservation Order Application 1 Apr 2010
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... Minister of Agriculture discussed with all parties involved in the water conservation order process, including the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the possibility of an integrated approach to try to avoid the issue’s escalating to the Environment Court. This ...
Dr Russel Norman I seek leave to table a letter from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society to the Prime Minister, dated December last year, regarding the intervention of the Minister of Agriculture in the water ...
Dr Russel Norman I seek leave to table a file note from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s South Island manager regarding the intervention of the Minister of Agriculture in the water conservation order process.
Mining in Conservation Areas—Prime Minister’s Statements 16 Mar 2010
Hon Phil Goff Why did the Prime Minister attack the media and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society as being hysterical instead of simply coming out, coming clean, and telling the country what his Government intends to do ...
Hon JOHN KEY Because the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society was being hysterical.
Prime Minister—Statements 13 Oct 2009
Hon Annette King Does he agree with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, which said last week that his statement that “National will have policies that reflect the fact that living on a diet of ...
Hon Annette King Does the Prime Minister stand by his statement that he would “turbocharge” the work of community groups such as the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society; if so, why is the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society saying that opportunities for talks on environmental concerns ...
Hon JOHN KEY Yes, I stand by my statement. I am more than happy to meet with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. In fact, from time to time I have seen its representatives. When the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society does come ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Select Committee Changes 14 Aug 2007
John Key ... they would be regulating bodies and suppressing the ordinary legitimate activities of bodies like Grey Power, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and the Post Primary Teachers Association?
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 11 Dec 2007
PHIL HEATLEY ... Annette King and the Labour Government just do not get it. There used to be a time when Plunket, Women’s Refuge, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, or any one of a myriad of organisations in New Zealand could just put ads in the paper, or could picket, or pick up a ...
Hon ANNETTE KING ... he said many things that were total garbage, there is one thing that I want to correct. He constantly used the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society as his evidence against the Electoral Finance Bill. I assure the member that all the concerns raised in the society’s ...
In Committee 6 Dec 2007
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... it is about fairness. I want to bring to the attention of the Green Party the point of view of, for instance, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. It often becomes involved in political debates like whether political parties should support Māui’s dolphin and protect ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... to explain, obviously, to the Green member why she does not understand the law she is supporting. The only way the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society could run a campaign to protect Māui’s dolphin, to engage the public interest, is to print pamphlets, hold public meetings,...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... and, indeed, they go so far as to say: “Support those parties that will protect Māui’s dolphin.” That is what the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society will do, and there are many, many other concerned citizens’ organisations just like that. The whole problem with this ...
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
Hon MARIAN HOBBS ... again, because I have heard this conversation come up before: I do not care who is doing the buying. If it were the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, or my friends the Society of Friends, the Quakers, I would be just as angry as if it were the Exclusive Brethren. I do ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... side of the House are. We listened carefully to them, to Business New Zealand, to Professor Andrew Geddis, and to the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, all of whom asked for the changes that I have just outlined. We listened carefully, and we recommended those changes, by ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH Amnesty International, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society—they know that the climate change policy is a total shambles. The people who are opposed to battery hens hold their ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Business Taxation, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 17 May 2007
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... Any organisation doing anything of the nature of the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the World Wide Fund for Nature, or all the many others that are involved in trying to lead public opinion and advocate ...
Land Information
Land Information New Zealand—Confidence 19 Oct 2006
Hon David Carter Is this Minister ever going to stand up to the relentless march by the Department of Conservation and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society to lock up vast chunks of the South Island, which has been farmed without detriment for over 100 years?
KiwiSaver Bill
Third Reading 30 Aug 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... on low incomes were unlikely to have spare cash for savings. That is a big group of Kiwis who will miss out. The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society tells us that the threat facing kiwis is urgent, and that all mainland species of kiwi are threatened with extinction ...
Marine Reserves (Consultation with Stakeholders) Amendment Bill
First Reading 17 May 2006
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... of reserves. They also recognise the benefits of the spillover, and how it actually improves their own take. But the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society has an agenda to turn 20 percent of our coastal waters into reserves, and the Government has obviously indicated that it ...
Fisheries
Fisheries—Sustainability 24 Nov 2005
Hon JIM ANDERTON Yes, I have seen the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s Best Fish Guide,and I dispute its assertion that no New Zealand fishery is sustainable. New Zealand leads the world in ...
Phil Heatley Is the Minister concerned at all that the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society will undermine the domestic seafood market with its irresponsible comments—that there are no fish that consumers should eat;...
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... to work more cooperatively together to improve the environment for fisheries in this country—and that includes the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society.
Phil Heatley Will the Minister actively assure the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society that contrary to its Best Fish Guide, the over $30 million in fishery management and conservation levies his ministry ...
Metiria Turei Does the Minister not agree that organisations like the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society that provide a critical service to this country in encouraging consumers to take responsibility for the effects of their ...
Hon JIM ANDERTON Of course, it is a free country, and the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society is entitled to its view. The idea of a guide to properly inform people about the status of fisheries in New Zealand is a ...
Phil Heatley So can the Minister then clearly confirm that he opposes and disagrees with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s claim, and does support his ministry’s spending of the $30 million in levies that is collected from Kiwi fishers?
Phil Heatley Why, then, did the Minister remain silent over the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s media beat-up about the Best Fish Guide over a fortnight ago that asserted that over 69 seafood species are poorly ...
Imprest Supply (Third for 2005/06) Bill
Imprest Supply Debate 23 Nov 2005
GORDON COPELAND ... I say that the Green Party and United Future should have a lot in common in those policies. The members of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society have signalled that once we have begun the pest reduction, they will give us their support at the next election, so I look ...
Obituaries - Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald
Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald 9 Nov 2005
... this year, was a senior adviser to the Minister of Conservation, Chris Carter, a former conservation director of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and instrumental in ending the logging of native forests on the West Coast. And now we have had the death of our darling ...