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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 3d

🦅✨ Speed-swoop into style and snag a pair of kārearea earrings by Remix Plastic – designed to celebrate the fierce and fabulous 2025 Bird of the Year. $2 from every pair goes directly to support vital conservation mahi, so you’re not just looking good, you’re doing good too🎉https://remixplastic.com/

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 10d

And now... 🏅A few words from our winner🏅

#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear #NZBirdoftheYear

@thomassainsbury

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 16d

Confused by all the talk of vote validation? 🗳️We can't let spam-bots decide who gets the crown! 🤖 So we can only count verified votes. Once you've submitted your picks, you're just a click away from verification. ✅

#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear #NZBirdoftheYear

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 26d

Need some help choosing which birds to vote for in the 20th Bird of the Year? Download our handy flowchart. Voting opens Monday!
👉https://f.mtr.cool/euvawqrgje

#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 27d

🧱🐦 Missed out on a bird brick kit? Here’s your second chance!

49 sets of each bird (pīwakawaka, kākāpō, tūī and pekapeka) will be available at the Wellington Brick Show along with a chance to meet their creator @bricks.by.mike_

📅 13 September
📍 Walter Nash Centre, Lower Hutt

#BOTY2025

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wear your Bird of the Year vote as eco-friendly jewellery. ✨
Turning waste into treasure, Remix Plastic is donating $2 from select pairs of their stunning bird earrings, studs, and pins – including pūteketeke and hoiho – to support our conservation mahi.

👉 https://remixplastic.com

#BOTY2025

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Sep 3

Critter of the Week fans – new merch has landed! $5 from every purchase goes to supporting conservation heroes.
👉 https://joyya.com/en-nz/collections/critter-of-the-week

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌿🌿🌿 Three easy ways to start conservation for Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa, Conservation Week, 1 to 7 September 2025.
1. Pick up rubbish
2. Support pest control
3. Vote nature

🐦Let’s make conservation part of everyday life. We’d love to hear your ideas for making it more accessible 💚

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦜 Celebrate 20 years of Bird of the Year and take home your own piece of history with our limited-edition brick-built model, developed by @bricks.by.mike_ ! Only 200 are available, so get in fast before they waddle away!!

https://f.mtr.cool/delugiizam

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Aug 2

🔥 These past Bird of the Year winners are looking for a match! From viral heartthrobs to underdog glow-ups, these plucky singles know how to ruffle feathers and steal hearts 🐦💔

👉 Keen to campaign? They’re waiting for you.
https://f.mtr.cool/xsglwvyqlx

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some birds have flocks of fans ... these guys are still looking for “the One”.

Swipe right on these cuties before someone else snaps them up 💘

Become a campaign manager: https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/apply-be-bird-year-2025-campaign-manager

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jul 29

Heal the Hauraki - Episode 2: “Tangata” IS OUT NOW 💙
🌊 Around the Hauraki Gulf our ocean communities are struggling – habitat loss means biodiversity is out of balance & ecosystems are failing. But a groundswell is rising – of courage, care, and collective hope🩵
👇 Watch now youtu.be/t9eppCixWfs?...

Heal the Hauraki - Episode 2 - "TANGATA (PEOPLE)", with Bianca Ranson & Mandy Kupenga

YouTube video by Heal The Hauraki

youtu.be

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jul 19

“It’s the trawling that’s turned thriving [ocean] ecosystems into lifeless mud.”
We're standing with the Hauraki Gulf Alliance on the Rainbow Warrior, calling for a complete ban on bottom trawling in Tīkapa Moana.
It's time to protect our marine life & end this destructive practice once and for all.

On the Rainbow Warrior (from left to right): Sinead O'Flynn, Bianca Ranson, Shaun Lee, Mandy Kupenga and Juan Parada. Credit Bianca Ranson.

High level drone shot of the Rainbow Warrior. Credit Greenpeace.

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jul 18

A loaf-sized shrimp? The supergiant amphipod, or Alicella gigantea, lives 7 km below the ocean’s surface and is a monster compared to other shrimp. The extreme pressure at the depth they live in is theorised to have led to their gigantism, just like the colossal squid 🦑
📸 Alan Jamieson (CC-BY-SA)

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jun 28

Forest & Bird’s Nicola Toki joins broadcaster John Cowan on NewstalkZM’s Real Life at 7.30 tonight to talk about what shaped her passion for nature, why many people don’t realise the scale of our biodiversity crisis, and how we can turn it around.

https://f.mtr.cool/nevovblnlc

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · Jun 9

The battle of the birds is BACK! 🐦✨

Bird of the Year returns this September.

🗓️ Voting will open Monday 15 September
🗓️ Voting will close Sunday 28 September

You can sign up now to become a campaign manager.
👉 https://f.mtr.cool/xjbevgkqfr

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 30

Meet Philophthalmus attenuatus, the seagull eye parasite you never knew existed (and probably wish you still didn’t). Listen to Richard talking to Jesse on RNZ for today's #CritterOfTheWeek.

📸 Image by flaxington

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 28

Denniston might look rugged and empty from a distance – but get down low and you’ll discover a tapestry of rare mosses, alpine daisies, sundews 🌱🦎

💚 Add your observations or browse the wild wonders already spotted:

👉 inaturalist.nz/projects/cel...

#CelebratingDenniston #WarOnNature

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 28

📣 Want to take action for climate & nature this week?

Our friends at @350nz.bsky.social are organising protests around the country calling on ANZ to cut ties with coal giant Bathurst Resources – the company behind plans to dig up the wild and irreplaceable Denniston Plateau. ❌⛏️🌿

350.org.nz/coal/

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 26

Over the weekend, Forest & Bird gathered to celebrate the #Denniston Plateau and rally against a proposed fast-tracked open-cast coal mine. On RNZ, Kennedy Warne spoke of its rich biodiversity, the magic of the place and the threat that the proposed mine presents.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

The wonders of the Denniston Plateau

Nine to Noon's outdoors man, Kennedy Warne, has spent the weekend at the Denniston Plateau on the West Coast, with several dozen nature enthusiasts. He describes it as "strange and wonderful" and shar...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 22

Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better.

www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...

No nature, no economy: Budget 2025 misses the $133b point

Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society.

www.forestandbird.org.nz

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 20

📢 Let’s make sure we’re catching seafood – not seabirds!

#ACAP2025 #SaveOurSeabirds #TooCoolToLose #SeabirdCapital #ForestAndBird #ConservationInAction #Tītī #Albatross #PetrelProtection #ZeroBycatch

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 20

Aotearoa New Zealand is the seabird capital of the world – home to over a third of all seabird species, many of which breed only here. But these incredible ocean wanderers are under threat – especially from climate change, fishing bycatch at sea, and introduced predators on land.

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 20

Global delegates have landed in Ōtepoti Dunedin for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses & Petrels (#ACAP) seabird summit. We hope this week’s meeting will encourage countries to adopt stronger protections at sea – b/c saving these special species takes global commitment & local action.

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 13

“What’s next?A sanctuary for stoats?” Forest & Bird calls out plans to turn Fiordland into a game park. When conservation funding faces a $1.5B shortfall, the prioritisation of hunting over biodiversity protection is deeply concerning: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#WarOnNature #SaveConservationLand

Move to protect Fiordlank elk draws ire of Forest and Bird

Forest and Bird has accusing the government of "changing the law to let a North American deer species use the national park as a glorified vege patch".

www.rnz.co.nz

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