The Otago Conservation Board has consistently rejected the Department of Conservation's 2013 decision to grant an increase in guided walk numbers on the Routeburn [...]

Trampers and climbers want the very popular access road to the Rastus Burn Conservation Area and Remarkables Mountains overlooking Queenstown reopened to the public. [...]

FMC is praising the Pike River Mine families’ proposal for land surrounding the site of the mine tragedy to be added to the Paparoa [...]

Community group forced to prepare for court over Christmas Break Local community group Protect Karangahake have announced that they will spend the Christmas break [...]

Federated Mountain Clubs and Save Fiordland would have saved thousands of dollars and years of work had Department of Conservation officials taken FMC’s advice [...]

The Outdoor Recreation Consortium has approved funding for a wide variety of community partners from around New Zealand to enhance and maintain our backcountry [...]

Two parties of committed trampers traversing the ice fortresses of the Adams Wilderness Area and a team bravely eyeing up the granite faces of [...]

The NZ Outdoor Recreation Consortium has announced that applications are open for three new funds that it manages to support volunteer-led work in New [...]

At the FMC AGM in June the conservation spokespeople of the Greens, Labour and National spoke to the crowd. There were differences in some [...]

A consortium representing over 30,000 trampers, hunters, mountaineers and mountain bikers welcomed Minister of Conservation Dr Nick Smith’s announcement this evening of major funding [...]

We would like to share some good news from our friends at the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association -  A great example of passionate outdoors [...]

Federated Mountain Clubs President Robin McNeill today wrote to the Minister of Conservation and the Conservation spokespeople of all political parties expressing deep concerns about [...]

At Federated Mountain Clubs recent Annual General Meeting, President Robin McNeill addressed VIPs and delegates, including the Minister of Conservation, and called for FMC [...]

The FMC Annual Report 2014  is available here. It shows FMC is in a sound state financially and contributing strongly to positive outcomes for [...]

Federated Mountain Clubs (FMC) today launched an election-year campaign to protect much-loved areas managed by the Department of Conservation at risk from intrusive and [...]

A day of conservation discussion for trampers, climbers, mountaineers, hunters and others. Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (FMC) is hosting a day of [...]

Invercargill, 4th May 2014 Federated Mountain Clubs, New Zealand Deerstalkers Association and Trail Fund signed a Heads of Agreement on Thursday, establishing a consortium [...]

DOC Community Conservation Partnerships Fund Works for Everyone Invercargill, 30th March 2014 Federated Mountains Clubs President, Robin McNeill, is delighted by the announcement of [...]

28,000 say No to the Fiordland Monorail Wellington, 18th March 2014 Many more people hate the idea of a monorail through the Snowdon Forest [...]

Youth Scholarships Following a three year trial period, the FMC youth scholarships have been revamped and are back for 2014. Because of low demand, [...]

29 January 2014 “Nick Smith is bang-on advocating for 1080 to prevent 20 tonnes of native birds becoming pest-tucker every day”, says Robin McNeill, [...]