News from FMC
Outdoor community celebrates win with Health and Safety reform
After years of advocacy, changes to health and safety legislation will help reopen outdoor spaces previously restricted by landowner liability concerns.
News from FMC
After years of advocacy, changes to health and safety legislation will help reopen outdoor spaces previously restricted by landowner liability concerns.
FMC is on the lookout for a capable volunteer to help manage our finances. FMC finances are relatively simple and the time commitment averages around 2 hours per week. [...]
FMC has contributed to discussion about afforestation of, and native regeneration on, Crown-owned land, initiated by the Ministry for Primary Industries. Key points of our submission are: More work [...]
DOC publishes a Long-term Insights Briefing three-yearly to inform the public on trends, risks, and opportunities, and to provide impartial analysis and policy options. Its latest proposed LTIB topic [...]
In November 2024, the Government released a discussion document seeking public feedback on proposed changes to conservation planning and management. The focus is on streamlining the concession process, improving [...]
Do you care deeply about protecting the wild places we all love and enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities? Do you have skills in policy, planning, law, governance, media, marketing or [...]
If you draw a line from Hokitika to Timaru, nearly everything south of it makes up about a third of New Zealand’s land—the same amount that DOC manages on [...]
Whakapapa Holdings 2024 Limited has applied for a concession to operate the Whakapapa Ski Area on Mt Ruapehu for the next ten years. In general, FMC supports granting a new [...]
FMC has written a submission to the proposed Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill. Our submission focuses on areas related to the negative effects the Bill will have on the [...]
As the year is nearing an end, we thought to look at the year behind us and see what we've done well. Here is what we found: What [...]