New Zealand tree protection community organisation
The proposed new legislation to replace the RMA removes the ability of councils to protect urban trees. In addition the regulatory relief provisions will result in us having no council rules to protect our natural environment. None. Read More …
Submissions on the Resource Management Act’s replacement – the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill – close at 4.30pm on 13 February with the Environment Select Committee.Find out more information on the process on the Parliamentary website here. There are two Bills – a Natural Environment Bill and a Planning Bill. You can make a Read More …
Media release: for immediate release 13 December 2025From: The Tree Council, info@thetreecouncil.org.nz The Tree Council is appalled that the Government has refused to grant an exemption to Auckland Council to allow them to continue with Plan Change 113 that was intended to add more significant trees to the Notable Trees Schedule 10 of the Unitary Read More …
Media release: for immediate release Monday 19 May 2025 Following the public threats to “get rid of” our Secretary at last week’s hearing on the Westmere helicopter consent made by Chair of the Independent Commissioners Panel Kitt Littlejohn, The Tree Council has this weekend received an email apology from Mr Littlejohn personally addressed to our Read More …
The Tree Council, Forest & Bird Waitākere and the Waitākere Ranges Protection Society are all delighted to see that Auckland Council finally intends to fulfill its legal obligation under the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Act 2008 (the Act) by producing a Deed of Acknowledgment recognising the important role tangata whenua have in the area. This Read More …
Media release: for immediate release 22 August 2024 The Tree Council is appalled that Upper Hutt City Council is poised to destroy an avenue of fourteen mature native black beech trees next week in order to widen a dead end road at Katherine Mansfield Drive. These trees represent the last intact remnant of the tawai Read More …
Rosebank Park Domain lease: do public consultation on a park and separate the racetrack from the native forest Kia ora koutou, The Tree Council was dismayed to read the recent Whau Local Board Chair’s Report https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2024/05/from-the-whau-local-board-chair/ stating that a new lease for the motor sports clubs on the Rosebank Park Domain will soon be announced, Read More …
After 7.5 years of negotiations the Huia Water Treatment Plant case has finally been settled via appeal to the Environment Court. Read More …
Media release: for immediate release 17 August 2023 The Tree Council is delighted that the Government’s Natural and Built Environment Bill has passed its third and final reading and will become law. The Bill was significantly amended as a result of the thousands of submissions received by the Environment Select Committee calling for urban tree Read More …
The Environment Select Committee has released its report and recommended amendments to the Natural and Built Environment Bill, which will replace the Resource Management Act. Over the two rounds of consultation on the draft Bill supporters of The Tree Council and NZ Arb sent over 3,300 individual submissions to the Select Committee supporting the changes we recommended Read More …