The Department of Conservation has publicly notified an application by Path New Zealand Limited for a lease and licence to build and operate a [...]

A whole year after DOC's decision on the Waitaha hydro scheme was due, DOC sent all submitters a letter outlining a proposal by Westpower, [...]

Background Perched high above the Tasman Sea on the slopes of Mount Tutoko is an unlikely ice plateau straddling Napunatoru Pass; it is [...]

FMC is opposing an application to extend Aoraki Court Motel in Mt Cook Village until the future management of the National Park, including the [...]

FMC recently submitted on the Ferintosh Station tenure review process. The full submission can be found here: FMC Ferintosh Crown pastoral tenure review FMC believes [...]

FMC has submitted in favour of a proposed Water Conservation Order for the Ngaruroro river in the Hawkes Bay. The Ngaruroro rises from the [...]

FMC has respectfully suggested that Land Information New Zealand go back to the drawing-board with its preliminary proposal for the tenure review of the Simons Pass pastoral lease.

Omahau Hills, the "Port Hills" of Twizel are currently going through the tenure review process. FMC is pushing for increased public access including a [...]

FMC has submited firmly against bizarre proposals by the Grey District Council to log some of its native forest reserves. The proposals, which came [...]

FMC's submission on the Clean Water 2017 consultation can be found here: FMC submission on Clean Water 2017

FMC has submitted against the proposed location of a lakeside lunch shelter for the exclusive use of guided walkers on the Routeburn track. While [...]

FMC is concerned that Conservation Management Strategies are becoming all blurb and no backbone. There is a growing tendency to use the strategies  as [...]

FMC is very supportive of DOC's proposal to add 4808 hectares of stewardship land adjacent to the Ahuriri Conservation Park to the Park. The [...]

FMC recently submitted on the preliminary tenure review proposal for Twin Peaks station which lies in the northern extremity of the St Bathans range [...]

FMC has submitted against the proposed hydroelectric development on the Waitaha river. Read the submission here: Waitaha Submission

FMC has submitted against a proposed new private road through Coromandel State Forest Park. The road, which is to access a pine plantation, and [...]

FMC has recently submitted regarding a proposed concession to be granted to NZSki to install a watertake from Lake Alta. This will require the [...]

FMC recently submitted on a draft management plan for Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park. This park is now governed by DOC and Ngāti Whare following a [...]

After a hiatus, there is now a deluge of management plan reviews underway public conservation land, which will in the next couple of years [...]

Glenfalloch station sits between the Rakaia and Ashburton catchments, up above Lake Heron. It may prove in the future to be an integral part [...]

FMC submitted on an amendment to the Kahurangi National Park Management Plan to lengthen the mountain biking season on the Heaphy track, and allow [...]