17 August 2023: The NZCA is calling on New Zealand political parties to tell New Zealanders how they will be addressing the combined crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, to secure resilient and thriving environments for future generations.
16 June 2023: The NZCA is a strong advocate for greater marine protection in areas throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and is now urging for the development of new tools for marine protection.
3 May 2022: The NZCA is pleased to formally receive the Options Development Group (ODG) report, which had been commissioned in light of the matters highlighted in the 2018 Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Supreme Court decision.
21 July 2020: The NZCA fully supports the Department of Conservation in their operations to cull all tahr, as far as possible, in the Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks.
2 July 2020: The NZCA strongly supports the Department of Conservation’s Tahr Control Operational Plan 2020-2021, and gives full support to the implementation National Parks Act’s policy of extermination of tahr, as far as possible, from the Aoraki/Mt Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks.
1 May 2020: The New Zealand Conservation Authority has written an open letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, calling for an investment in nature and nature-based jobs.
Partial review of Conservation and National Parks policies to give better effect to Treaty principles
6 August 2019: Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage and the NZ Conservation Authority have directed DOC to undertake partial reviews of the Conservation General Policy and the General Policy for National Parks, to give better effect to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.