EDS combines staunch advocacy with relationship building to deliver lasting environmental protection.
We do three things to achieve improved environmental outcomes.
Our policy team researches, develops and advocates for environmental solutions.
Our litigation enforces and strengthens the law, ensuring an environmental voice is heard in the courts.
Our events bring people together to share knowledge and build momentum.
Provision for housing needs to be carefully incorporated into the new resource management system and integrated with environmental considerations.
The Government's expansive vision for infrastructure and development comes with no corresponding focus on protecting the natural environment.
Proposed changes will result in more inappropriate and environmentally damaging activities occurring in New Zealand’s most sensitive places
The proposed changes would unwind decades of freshwater management progress, undermining hard-won legal protections in favour of short-term economic interests.
EDS has submitted on the sustainability measures for a range of stocks including orange roughy (ORH 3B), forage fish species, snapper (SNA 7) and low-medium knowledge stocks.
Limiting whole farm exotic forest conversions is supported, but it is a piecemeal approach to tackling systemic issues across climate and forestry policy.
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a crucial time with biodiversity and climate in crisis. Help us lead it in the right direction.
