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2025
Environmental lawsuits turning into a ‘blood sport’ ‒ Shane Jones | The Post — July 2025
Study finds NZ's largest orange roughy fishery facing collapse | Newsroom — July 2025
Conservation group calls for Chatham Rise orange roughy fishery closure, bottom trawling ban | RNZ News — July 2025
Freshwater quality will only improve if the public interest prevails | The Press — July 2025
Judicial review of EPA's glyphosate herbicide stance kicking off | Newsroom — June 2025
Glyphosate to be debated in High Court | RNZ News — June 2025
New Zealand government sued over ‘dangerously inadequate’ emissions reduction plan | The Guardian — June 2025
New Zealand Government Faces Legal Challenge Over Emissions Plan | Bloomberg — June 2025
Thomas Coughlan: Why are legal experts taking the Government's climate policies to court? | Newstalk ZB — June 2025
Expert reveals whether legal team can sue the Government over emissions plan | Newstalk NB — June 2025
Live: Lawyers sue National-led Government over emissions plan | Stuff — June 2025
New Climate Case Challenges New Zealand’s Emissions Reduction Plan, Reliance On Forestry Offsets | Climate in the Courts Blog — June 2025
Lawyers sue govt over emissions reduction plan | RNZ — June 2025
New Zealand government sued over ‘inadequate’ plan to reduce emissions | CNN — June 2025
Lawyers sue government over emissions, claiming plan misses the mark | RNZ — June 2025
NZ’s carbon forestry offsets on trial in High Court Case | Newsroom — June 2025
Court warned of potential consent chaos | Newsroom — May 2025
NZ wildlife and construction projects at centre of urgent Wildlife Act changes | RNZ News — May 2025
Second irrigator taken to court | Ashburton Guardian — May 2025
Is urgent law change 'irrelevant'? Judge isn't so sure | Newsroom — May 2025
Govt denies lift in controversial herbicide limit is preparing ground for GMO bill | Newsroom — May 2025
Ban on Northland rock lobster fishing on the cards | Newsroom — May 2025
Farmers in ‘impossible’ situation if rule quashed, court hears | Newsroom — May 2025
Council asks court to set aside ‘remarkable’ correspondence | Newsroom — May 2025
Canterbury council's freshwater management challenged in court | RNZ News — May 2025
Law change could mean polluted waterways get even dirtier, environmentalists fear | The Press — May 2025
Explained: Is the Government saying it’s OK to kill kiwi to build roads? | Stuff — May 2025
Law change protects vulnerable roads and mines from skinks, geckos and frogs | Newsroom — May 2025
Protection plan for world’s rarest dolphin challenged in court | The Post — April 2025
Charity takes legal action against govt to protect dolphins | RNZ — April 2025
Legal Challenge Over Dolphin Protection Plan | Waatea News — April 2025
The orange roughy and a ‘cautionary tale of over-exploitation’ | The Post — March 2025
The world's ugliest animal is celebrated as New Zealand's fish of the year | NBC — March 2025
The tiny charity saving the planet one court case at a time | The Post — March 2025
Wildlife Act decision ‘should mean more care for nature, not less’ | The Post — March 2025
Government resolves to amend Wildlife Act after court decision | The Post — March 2025
NZTA Waka Kotahi's permission to kill protected species at Mt Messenger ruled unlawful | RNZ — March 2025
DOC unlawfully issuing permits to allow NZTA to kill species | RNZ — March 2025
Permit to kill wildlife for new road ruled unlawful | The Post — March 2025
Nature is our greatest asset, not 'green tape' | Newsroom — March 2025
High Court Rules Mt Messenger Department of Conservation Permit Unlawful | Radio Waatea — March 2025
1News piece on Wetlands decision | 1News — February 2025
Council failed to protect wetlands - high court ruling | RNZ — February 2025
Southern council failed to protect wetlands, court finds | Stuff — February 2025
Council failed to protect wetlands, high court rules | The Post — February 2025
Council fails on wetland care obligations | Otago Daily Times — February 2025
Reto Blattner De Vries Explains Kina Barren Strategies | Te Hiku Media — February 2025
Editorial on crayfish win | New Zealand Geographic — February 2025
High Court strikes down lobster catch limits over environmental concerns | NZ Lawyer — February 2025
High Court rules against Fisheries NZ on kina barren strategies | Radio Waatea — February 2025
I hē te Minta Take Moana omua me tana ture mō te kōura | Radio Waatea — February 2025
High court rules 2023 Minister's decision on crayfish catch limits 'unlawful' | RNZ — February 2025
Environmental group at odds with regulator over herbicide Roundup | RNZ — February 2025
‘Frustrated’ environmental law advocates win High Court review | NBR — February 2025
MHV say losing resource consent risky | Ashburton Guardian — February 2025
Mega-irrigation schemes back to court, as Canterbury water wars heat up | The Post — January 2025
2024
DOC, MPI acted unlawfully in failing to protect sea life | The Post — December 2024
High Court rules DoC failed to protect marine species for decades | NZ Herald — December 2024
High Court finds DOC has failed to manage and report bycatch | RNZ — December 2024
Canterbury’s rivers deserve better than ‘quick and dirty’ | The Press — October 2024
Court challenge over toxicity of Roundup | The Post — October 2024
A cry for kelp – our kelp forests are in deep trouble | Newsroom — October 2024
Trust takes council to court over wetland loss | Otago Daily Times — September 2024
Southern council taken to court over wetland loss | The Post — September 2024
Legal case over Z Energy's emissions reduction claims moves towards trial | RNZ — August 2024
Greenwashing claims on trial: should NZ ban fossil fuel advertising? | The Conversation — March 2024
2023
Consumer NZ seeks High Court declaration Z Energy has misled Kiwis | 1 News — November 2023
Landmark legal challenge to mega-irrigation scheme in Canterbury | Sunday Star Times — May 2023
Government agency to face court over "failure" to protect endangered species | Stuff — May 2023
2022
Group plans further legal action against govt after landmark decision on crayfish catch limits | RNZ — December 2022
DOC permit allows kiwi to be killed on Bypass project | RNZ — November 2022
We need to ask harder questions about the herbicide glyphosate | Newsroom — July 2022
Legal case against government over protection of marine animals | RNZ — May 2022
Concerns Stewardship land won't be guided in the right direction | RNZ — March 2022
2021
Climate change is everyone's business | Newsroom — June 2021
Limits are limits in high-stakes environment bill | Newsroom — September 2021
