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Nicola Toki

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Wild at heart Mum & Critter Lady. Chief Executive of @forest_and_bird 🌿🦜. This is my personal account so views are my own.

Aotearoa

Joined April 2009

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@naturevision

Nicola Toki

5 months

"When you're working for a not-for-profit and you know that everything is paid for by hard working NZers, who took money out of their pocket for you to do this work, it’s an enormous responsibility & privilege, & is something that makes me really proud."

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Nicola Toki: walking a tightrope of hope

The interview has run over time, the chair of the board is trying to get in touch, but Nicola Toki confesses she could keep talking about Aotearoa’s wildlife and natural world all day, every day.

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Nicola Toki

2 months

From a couple of weeks ago near Kaikōura. The crew I was with were so excited to be in the presence of these endangered dolphins. Nobody got cross about them being in our way... we just slowed down and enjoyed them.

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Really interested to hear @cjsbishop tell reporters that he'd been talking with environment sector ahead of the #fastrack proposed legislation. As CE of NZ's largest & longest serving ENGO, we weren't consulted. We got a letter & 12 days to respond & a cancelled meeting tho 🙅‍♀️

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Nicola Toki

3 months

"You don't give New Zealanders 12 days to have a say on something as fundamentally important to our environment and communities as changes to the Resource Management Act," - Richard Capie. People are horrified by this anti-nature undemocratic approach. Not the Kiwi way at all.

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3 months

Forest and Bird unhappy with Government's plan to fast-track RMA reforms

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Nicola Toki

2 years

Btw just FYI I’m not into the whole “everyone’s going to get it” mentality about Covid. There are too many vulnerable people for this to be an acceptable approach to our friends and whānau, so I’m trying quite hard not to get it thanks all the same.

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Nicola Toki

2 months

The PM @chrisluxonmp said that this government had signaled with voters what they intended to do. I don't think that the public voted for a #waronnature and a removal of environmental protections & democratic process for communities to have a say. This isn't the kiwi way.

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Nicola Toki

5 months

Are we now in a position where our politicians are openly advocating for an extinction of an endangered species over mining interests? (I'm running out of emojis to describe this).

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The Kermadecs

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Minister Shane Jones in Parliament “In those areas called the DOC estate, where it's stewardship land… if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye, Freddy”. This is a dark comedy @naturevision @WWFNewZealand @GreenpeaceNZ

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Nicola Toki

11 months

We haven't supported our farming communities by delaying action for 20+ years. Now we have farmers under sig pressure, the 6th highest emissions in the developed world, freshwater pollution up the wazoo & $20 blocks of cheese. We haven't helped them. We need Leadership.

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11 months

'We've got an entire sector of the economy that refuses to engage in the rules that everybody else follows': Forest & Bird CEO Nicola Toki blasts NZ farming sector's attitude to emissions tax #NationNZ

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5 months

Dear everyone in NZ, WATCH THIS. Especially NZ government leaders (including the last lot who approved 80 mining activity permits on public conservation land). "It's like eating a tub of ice cream & an enormous cake & saying 'but I had a salad, so why haven't I lost weight?'".

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This is the whole problem stripped down to its essence. Thank you @GeorgeMonbiot

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8 months

I just attended the Newshub debate. A critical time to hear leaders on major issues. The disconnect is astonishing. I got back to headlines of floods in southland & wind fuelling fires in the MacKenzie. Not one mention of climate change or environment in @NewshubNationNZ debate

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Nicola Toki

3 months

We at @Forest_and_Bird are genuinely curious as to how the Minister @cjsbishop thinks we can provide informed feedback by 12th Feb deadline, given the meeting he wanted to set up to "discuss the proposals and understand our perspectives" won't have taken place by then... ?

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Nicola Toki

3 months

@cjsbishop is this what consultation looks like now? “My officials will be in touch to seek a meeting to discuss the proposals & understand your perspective. All feedback provided by Feb 2024 will inform the new bill to be introduced to Parliament in early March.” #fasttrack

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5 months

"I have never heard so many Kiwis express dismay at what they see as a failure of the democratic process as at present, as leaders from minor parties ... insult the goodwill and intelligence of the electorate by trying to impose policies for which they do not enjoy a mandate" 🌿

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Newsroom

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Week in Review: New Prime Minister Christopher Luxon needs to step in, stop the minor parties' anti-democratic posturing and weave the people back together, writes Dame Anne Salmond

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Nicola Toki

25 days

Yep. He was forced to by the Ombudsman after we complained. @Forest_and_Bird

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Marnie Prickett

25 days

I really think the media should give Chris Bishop a hard time about saying this. “In the interests of transparency, I have decided to release this list of organisations." This is not transparency, it's civil society pressure & the ombudsman.

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Nicola Toki

7 months

Can someone tell me how a new Minister for Hunting sits within National's proposed sweeping cuts of the public service, because they think there is "too much bureaucracy"? What could be more of an unnecessary back office job than that? Especially given huge numbers of 🦌 🐖 🐐?

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Nicola Toki

3 months

The first 2 very frightening stories on the news tonight are about the terrifying impacts of increased climate change events. Tonight's Port Hills fire & the stories of still devastated Kiwis 1 year after Cyclone Gabrielle. Please, please can the government take this seriously?

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Nicola Toki

1 month

My epic @Forest_and_Bird legal team had three wins in the courts this week, including a significant Supreme Court win. 🌳🐦. A positive reminder of the power of advocacy despite current rhetoric. #givingnatureavoice #hattrick

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Nicola Toki

2 months

I'm just watching the news reports on how 2023 was the hottest year on record globally... meanwhile, in NZ, we're debating fast tracking of coal mines on conservation land... 🙄 #racetothebottom #fasttrackwrongtrack #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

2 months

🐸 😢 A senior Minister in New Zealand overtly stating his preference for mining interests over the extinction of a globally endangered species. Globally embarrassing. Not on our watch. #waronnature

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Sharon Murdoch

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2 months

Archey’s frog. Shane Jones says, “if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity and it’s impeded by a blind frog, goodbye, Freddie.” Archey is a cipher for any flora & fauna, on land or in the sea, that stands between govt & a profit. My #cartoon today. #nzpol #RMA

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Nicola Toki

2 months

It's not bending to "minority interests" to carry out your business activity in such a way that endangered species are protected in accordance with the law on behalf of the people of NZ. We wouldn't have a rally through kākāpō habitat, there are obviously mitigations that occur

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Nicola Toki

1 month

In my latest eg of "extensive engagement", last Thursday at 4.06pm I received a form letter from @cjsbishop asking for our thoughts on the next phase of RM reform. Important given 30 years of legislative context on highly complex issues. Timeframe? 3 working days. #warronnature

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Nicola Toki

2 months

NZ continues its international sprint to the environmental bottom...

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2 months

Forest & Bird condemns the Government decision to torpedo the creation of the Kermadec Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary, saying it is a major blow to global efforts to protect the ocean, and to the legacy of former Prime Minister Sir John Key.

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Nicola Toki

2 years

"We will support whatever the industry wants" - Christopher Luxon on @NZMorningReport just now re addressing farm emissions.

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Nicola Toki

1 month

Cutting the Department of Conservation, who already have been cut to the bone, with a budget same as Christchurch City Council, is not good business sense, when they protect the very engine room of our economy. #waronnature #dobetter

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1 month

MEDIA RELEASE: The Govt's proposed job cuts to DOC will have long-term consequences for nature. It's another salvo in the #WaronNature at time when we are in a biodiversity crisis and climate crisis.

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Nicola Toki

2 months

So @jacktame asked @cjsbishop if development projects that have been rejected by the courts can now go through the fast track legislation. The answer is yes. Also note the Minister for the Environment is kept out of the process. #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

3 months

To all the X users with numbers after your handle (e.g. John33665 or Lynn988808), cheers for your forceful reckons about climate change and how this is just like summer in the 70s. I for one believe in science so I'm sticking with that. #becausescience

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Nicola Toki

21 days

NZ is making international headlines for all the wrong reasons. This govt's #waronnature is now globally embarrassing. 🤦‍♀️ #byebyefreddy 🐸 New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous | Nicola Wheen and Andrew Geddis

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New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous | Nicola Wheen...

Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green light

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Nicola Toki

7 months

Could not be prouder to tell you all that Critters of Aotearoa is NZ's number 1 bestselling children's book this week!!!! Thank you!!!! #critteroftheweek

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Nicola Toki

2 months

The last time a government tried to destroy public conservation land by enabling mining, they had to back down. I was there along with 40 000 Kiwi folk giving nature a voice. This isn't who we are, no matter what flavour govt is in power 🌿 #waronnature

Anti-mining protest

Concern over government plans to allow mining in national parks led to a 40,000-strong protest march down Auckland’s Queen Street on 1 May 2010. This television news report highlights the strength...

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Every New Zealander should read & understand this analysis by legal firm Bell Gully of the differences between the previous fast track leg & the current proposed bills. The differences are startling and are anti democratic and anti nature. #waronnature

Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill released under 100 Day Plan

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Nicola Toki

3 months

“If an individual Minister will now instead be able to essentially single-handedly approve a new application to mine, without public scrutiny or decent environmental consideration, that’s a massive loss for democracy, climate & biodiversity.” #waronnature

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These are the projects environmental groups say shouldn’t be fast-tracked

A West Coast coal mine tops the list of projects conservationists fear will be pushed through by the new coalition Government without adequate scrutiny. David Williams reports.

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Nicola Toki

22 days

"Until it is passed into law, this bill has no legal standing. By behaving as though it has already been passed, the ministers are treating the democratic process with contempt."

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Newsroom

23 days

Dame Anne Salmond to a select comittee examining the Fast-Track Approvals Bill, which gives ministers wide new powers over major projects and the environment.

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Nicola Toki

1 month

Are we just not going to do the evidence based decision-making making that was in the coalition agreement?

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Helen Clark

1 month

#NZ sea lion is classified as endangered & as the most threatened sea lion in world. Main breeding population in Auckland Is declined 50% between 2000-2014. Yet Oceans/Fisheries Minister is scrapping limit fishing industry can “accidentally kill. Tragic:

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Nicola Toki

2 years

Last night I went to Mr 8's school 'S' themed disco. Because he was at a mate's place after school, I went alone. In a wetsuit & snorkel. On arrival, I saw no other parents in costume 😬. I went in anyway 😳, helped the PTA, danced with the kids & won a prize for dressing up. 🥳

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5 months

Do better New Zealand.

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Several endangered bird nests have been "significantly disturbed" after a 150-strong 4WD Crate Day convoy.

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16 days

"Think Big and its aftermath are powerful examples of what can go wrong when a small group of politicians, who think they know best, deliberately curtail due process when it comes to making major decisions and instead take that power upon themselves."

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Govt repeats mistakes of Muldoon's authoritarian excesses

Opinion: It needs wiser leadership to learn from the past and convene a genuine multiparty conference to develop durable, balanced planning and resource management law, argues Peter Dunne

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Nicola Toki

2 years

Thread: you know how there's debate about planting of native forests vs pines to reduce carbon? Huge up front costs either way, and takes a while to get up and running. What I find surprising is that we have an existing asset that can reduce our emissions significantly 1/n

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Nicola Toki

3 months

This isn't the NZ way... when one in 3 Kiwis consider protection of environment and conservation their most important issue. also, who unilaterally agrees to pollute our own water? #dobetter

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3 months

The Government is proposing to push through drastic changes that will weaken protection of our natural environment at a time when we are facing a climate and biodiversity crisis - without letting the public have their say. It's death by 1000 cuts😢

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Remember that time that 40 000 NZers marched up Queen Street to protect schedule four land (including National Parks) and forced the govt to backtrack on their plans?

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2 months

The Govt has removed the Coromandel from Schedule 4, that hard-won protection from open cast mining, of the Crown Minerals Act for the Fast Track!!!!! This is HUGE! Shane Jones has re-opened the Coromandel Peninsula for open cast mining!!! #ExpectResistance

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Nicola Toki

1 month

Supporting our rangatahi with my @Forest_and_Bird team to fight this government's #waronnature for all of their and our sakes. 🌳🐦

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Hundreds and hundreds of people online for our @Forest_and_Bird webinar about fast track bill right now. People are appalled by the threat to our nature. This is not the Kiwi way. #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Personally, I hate this. We live in a small village & the speed limit increases at the farm next door. There is a primary school a couple of hundred metres away. Driving in from 100km/hr to 50km/hr was bloody dangerous for children, pets & the community. 80km/hr has been a relief

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2 months

The Government has announced the next steps to reverse Labour’s blanket speed limit reductions on State highways and local roads.

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2 months

Forest and Bird concerned over Govt Fast Track bill "The chief executive of @Forest_and_Bird , Nicola Toki, says three Government ministers will be given unbridled power to approve any development they want, no matter how damaging to the environment."

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Forest and Bird concerned over Govt Fast Track bill

The Government's Fast Track Approval bill will put New Zealand's threatened species on a fast track to extinction and leave a mess for future governments to clean up. That's the assessment of...

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Nicola Toki

15 days

Tonight's polls another reflection that anti nature anti democratic legislation isn't the Kiwi way. People want to be heard & not steam rolled when it comes to their back yards and the environment they care about (& no surprise to hear concern about fast track in IVs with public)

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22 days

Auditor general highlights democratic risks. Parliamentary commissioner for the environment highlights risks to nature - 2 key independent officers of Parliament flagging major concerns about Fast-Track legislation. #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

8 months

If you're wondering what cuts to the Department of Conservation will look like, here's a handy reflection from the last time this happened, only this time the cumulative impact of climate impacts will make it significantly worse for nature & communities

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Nicola Toki

2 years

I'm no longer going to quietly cringe at the sexism I've heard over past 20yrs from men in power. So FYI your staff turnover rate isn't cos 'ladies' keep leaving to have babies, it's 'parents'. I'm not 'emotive' when holding a colleague to account, I'm asking him to do his job.

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Nicola Toki

8 months

Launched! Thanks everyone! #crittersofaotearoa

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Nicola Toki

3 months

Stoked to hear @chrisluxonmp say that "We were not elected to manage decline," given our 4000 threatened species and pending significant cuts to DOC'S budget. Does this mean we will now see an investment mindset into the wildlife and wild places that define us? Great stuff! 🌿

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Nicola Toki

5 months

"NZ made a brief appearance in yesterday’s fossil fuel debate. It won the first Fossil of the Day award of this COP for the National-led govt’s promise to revoke the previous govt’s ban on offshore oil exploration beyond Taranaki’s coastal waters." 😬🇳🇿

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NZ wins COP28 'fossil' award for revoking offshore oil exploration ban

NZ in uncomfortable company at climate summit, as fuel company bosses deny importance of phasing out oil, gas and goal. Rod Oram reports.

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Nicola Toki

5 months

NZers have already made it clear that to "extract the dividend from Mother Nature's legacy" is not who we are. Also, when we've just heard that we must keep fossil fuels in the ground, let's remember the coalition agreements are to be evidence based.

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Shane Jones says New Zealand won't meet 'dreamy, fairytale' 2030 renewable energy target | Newshub

He hit out at the "hysteria surrounding climate change".

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Nicola Toki

2 months

So who did @cjsbishop have "extensive engagement" with from the environment sector? 🤔 a great read & calling out of unverified public statements by @HaydenDonnell #waronnature #wrongtrack

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The Spinoff

2 months

Chris Bishop said he’d carried out extensive engagement with the environmental sector. The environment sector says otherwise.

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Nicola Toki

10 months

"It's time for decision-makers to take their bread & butter & eat a reality sandwich. We can't just saunter through a planet on fire like it's business as usual." FYI to all the parties who refused to front today. @nzlabour @NZNationalParty @nzgreens @Maori_Party @NZGreens & Act

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10 months

Forest & Bird's CE Nicola Toki delivering her no holds barred State of the Nation address at Forest & Bird's Centennial Conference this morning💚

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Nicola Toki

26 days

You've still got time, not much, but still time to join the thousands of New Zealanders who have submitted against the deeply flawed fast track bill. Submissions close tomorrow night. Get in! 🌿

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26 days

A personal message from Nicola Toki, Chief Executive of Forest & Bird. Submissions close tomm on the Govt's new Fast-track Approvals Bill to override environmental protections. Join 1000s of Kiwis who've said "No" to this attack on nature and democracy:

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Nicola Toki

10 months

This isn't fine. There are a lot of people in Canterbury, including parents of young children, like me. What's happened to us Kiwis with such a staunch history of standing up for ourselves (see Save Manapouri; Nuclear Free NZ etc) that we just "accept" this? Time to wake up again

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The Press Newsroom

10 months

Nitrate levels across Canterbury are increasing, with 40% of wells tested in the Ashburton water zone breaching the maximum national drinking water level.

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Nicola Toki

14 days

The concern about fast track has well and truly spilled over from specific advocacy groups such as environmental NGOs, into the living rooms of concerned voters of all political stripes. This is about the fifth article I've seen in the last few days outlining the poor process.

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Newsroom

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The new fast-track bill has been described as "government by amateurs", with no checks and balances.

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Nicola Toki

9 months

Just a wee reminder for anyone in this country who thinks we're "too small" & our emissions don't matter. 1. We are small. 2. They do. A lot. We can do better. Some courageous leadership would be awesome on this... (p.s. watch the video, the evidence is in the first few seconds).

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Alec Tang 鄧振揚

2 years

ah… I see #TERP has hit Newshub and ZB socials, so time to roll out this vid for some ‘we’re too small to matter’ busting… maybe should pre-emptively send round to committee in advance of Thursdays debate too… 🤔😬

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Nicola Toki

25 days

So the Minister wrote to at least two developers who withdrew from their court processes at the same time. Stevensons have lost in 3 separate court processes in their attempts to coal mine Te Kuha. It is disgraceful that we forced this announcement with hours to go. #waronnature

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Rachel Brooking (she/her)

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25 days

With just hours to go till submissions close we now see who the Minister wrote to about the magical, ignore environmental outcomes to make money, listed projects. Submissions open till 11.59pm tonight 🐸💻🌏 Good work ⁦ @Forest_and_Bird ⁩

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Climate Change and Environment are out of cabinet. 🤦‍♀️🤯 Probably a good time to put this up again. Nature is going to need all the voices we can get.

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Join Forest & Bird

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Nicola Toki

6 months

That moment of watching @iamjohnoliver on @LastWeekTonight to see him crow (pun!) about the pūteketeke results for #birdofthecentury & I pop up on the screen as part of the story! It's all v surreal & a huge thanks to our tireless @Forest_and_Bird team who've kept BOTC running!

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Nicola Toki

5 months

This is something everyone should have close eyes on. This environmentally destructive suite of "environmental" policies will not only take us back decades but amplify local extinctions of threatened species & irreversible damage to ecosystems. Our natural world can't sustain it

@NewsroomNZ

Newsroom

5 months

The coalition agreements contain many actions on the environment - most of them regressive and some that could take NZ back decades, writes environmentalist Gary Taylor

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Hunting Minister = higher ranked than Conservation Minister...

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Nicola Toki

6 months

This is madness. The Hauraki District Council allowed international mining company OceaneaGold permission to mine on DOC land for $1 a year, via a road that doesn't exist in the real world, on protected land home to the most endangered & unique frog in the world 🐸 #nonewminesnz

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6 months

Great story on Newshub tonight:

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Nicola Toki

28 days

Genuinely this is deeply concerning from a democratic point of view. If the government are so confident they have the public's support, why are they hiding the info from us?

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Nicola Toki

28 days

"RNZ's OIA requests to obtain answers have been rejected on the basis material will be released "proactively". But the agency leading the process cannot guarantee the proactive release will occur before public submissions close." @KiwiFarah #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Watch out for this landing this morning. Anti nature and anti democratic. "The lack of transparency and opportunity for the New Zealand public to participate in these processes is the most shocking thing. #WarOnNature #FastTrack

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Govt plan to fast-track infrastructure alarms environmentalists

Chris Bishop says an overly-restrictive consenting process has slowed down progress for too long.

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Nicola Toki

21 days

And 94% of people didn't vote for Jones' party... I know many National voters who are concerned about coalition govt's anti nature stance. Bluegreen voters supported the National Party environment policy so where's that? And where's the Minister for the Environment in anything?

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Newsroom

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Shane Jones says people voted for change, but opponents say small cuts such as ending a special oceans secretariat are starting to add up.

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Nicola Toki

20 days

"What we've been talking about mostly is the job losses, but there's equivalent operating budget loss, & that just means DOC won't have capacity to deliver on species conservation programmes," "So we will likely lose species out of this." @jo_monks_nz

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Department of Conservation set to lose scientific expertise in job cuts

"DOC won't have the capacity to deliver on species conservation programmes," an academic says.

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Nicola Toki

5 months

The attacks on nature & Māori have provided a very fertile ground for unity of purpose for environmental issues & iwi interests in many places, and while we may not agree on all the things, I for one am very much looking forward to our ongoing discussions and collaboration 🌿📞

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Good leaders make good decisions based on good evidence (see also the coalition agreement). Yet on the FastTrack (and other) bills, the public & experts are being shut out (although developers have been assisting them by providing input into the bill). What is the Govt afraid of?

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Great fun doing interviews with curious international journos today about #BirdOfTheCentury & why there is so much interest in our native wildlife. I wonder how the news would have gone down if it was pūteketeke & not endangered Archey's frogs whose habitat is about to be mined?

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Just putting this out there for those with short memories. #nonewminesnz

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Huge protest says no to mining on conservation land

An estimated 50,000 marchers joined one of the biggest protests in Auckland for decades today, to give the Government a firm message to stay away...

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Nicola Toki

9 months

Wrote a book (based on 8 or more years of epic yarns with @JMulliganRNZ ), & illustrated by the very talented Lily Duval. Lily is also part of the #critteroftheweek whānau who research, Wikipedia & amplify critter. It takes a village indeed. Thanks @adzebill and team. 🐸🦗🪼🐌🦎🪱

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Nicola Toki

11 months

"Overall, our ag emissions are six times greater per capita than the global average – all to feed, supposedly, 40 million people, just 0.5 percent of the world's population." A deeply worrying analysis from @RodOramNZ . When we fail our binding commitment, who picks up the tab? 😬

@NewsroomNZ

Newsroom

11 months

National's agricultural emissions policy is a sham and contains one of the most damaging of all declarations of climate denial

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Nicola Toki

1 month

"Anyone can see that giving politicians with such deep ties to the industry unbridled power to approve consents, without even having to consider environmental implications or local communities’ concerns, is incredibly problematic." #waronnature

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Nick Young

1 month

The fast-track consenting bill: what’s the story? Rhiannon Mackie breaks it down👇 #nzpol #waronnature

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Nicola Toki

10 months

Just saying. (The Lorax, Dr Seuss, Random House, 1971).

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28 days

"They're practically using the law before it's even passed." I highly recommend you take almost 10 mins from your evening to digest this analysis of the Government's #waronnature via the Fast Track Bill. It's anti democratic and anti environment & def "taking the p*ss."

@AotearoaLib

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29 days

What’s the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”? Watch the full video here:

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Nicola Toki

2 years

Omg. The "what's your plan for the economy if we get rid of mining?" trolling is so 🥱. How about 1. no mining on PUBLIC conservation land where private industry profits from wrecking the nature; 2. Especially where some of the world's most threatened species live; 1/n

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Nicola Toki

4 months

Thread... remember that this coalition agreement promised "evidence based decision-making." And don't bother racisting at me until you've done some essential reading, please. There's a long list of books you can easily borrow from the library about the history of New Zealand 🌿

@FitzmauriceLuke

Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown

@FitzmauriceLuke

4 months

🧵1/ The document leaked today confirms that the government's intention here is not to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi but to erase them. I am a lecturer in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, here is why I think that...

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Nicola Toki

10 months

I worry that across the political spectrum in the lead up to a General Election, the sense of responsibility to the public to inform them of the significant dangers facing our communities, has been shrugged away. Leadership means gripping up the hard stuff. Crack on please.

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Sharon Murdoch

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10 months

A bit of perspective. My @NZStuff @the_postnz #cartoon #ClimateCrisis #climate

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Dear @FlyAirNZ , I'm 35 mins into being on hold for my one question and that's fine, but what would be even better would be a hold system that told me how many minutes away until the call will be answered or a call back function, which many other companies have... 🤔

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Nicola Toki

6 months

"Toki foresees an immediate problem that could threaten the pūteketeke & other native species. The country’s newly elected centre-right government has flagged cuts to the Department of Conservation which manages the country’s remaining wildlife habitat."

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John Oliver hilariously 'undermines' NZ's bird count with Jimmy Fallon stunt

The HBO star has erected billboards around the globe to campaign for the obscure pūteketeke. Find out why.

au.news.yahoo.com

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Nicola Toki

2 months

This morning on @NZQandA , the FastTrack Minister @cjsbishop confirms that coal mines will be in the fast track mix, and then claims that a rationale for this undemocratic legislation is "decarbonisation" ... 🤯

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Nicola Toki

11 months

Hope you're all watching TV One now. I'm a bit nervous but I hope you enjoy watching it as much as @PaxAssadi & I enjoyed making it to bring to you

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Nicola Toki

2 months

So sad about this. A true gentleman and the leader we need right now given the threats to our environment. I'm so proud to have worked with him over the years. 🌿

@NewsroomNZ

Newsroom

2 months

Rod Oram, a treasured Newsroom colleague and leading business and climate commentator in NZ public life for decades, has died in Auckland from injuries suffered in a cycling accident.

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2 months

“We’re not against fast-tracks, but it’s about checks and balances, and those are startlingly missing,” says Toki. “We’re driving a car at 150 kilometres an hour with no brakes and a no seatbelts.” #waronnature @RebekahWh @NZGeographic @Forest_and_Bird

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Goodbye, environmental laws! We're in our construction era now | New Zealand Geographic

Goodbye, environmental laws! We're in our construction era now

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Nicola Toki

12 days

We got less than 48 hrs notice to front at Select Committee on the Government's Fast-Track bill. We are clear on what we are advocating for so that wasn't an issue for @Forest_and_Bird . However I'm conscious not everyone had the chance. Watch: 46 mins in.

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Watch public meetings of the Environment Committee - New Zealand Parliament

Watch public meetings of the Environment Committee

www.parliament.nz

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Nicola Toki

1 month

Same. 👇

@threeboysbrew

Three Boys Brewery

1 month

I'm a keen hunter. Not one hunter person I know has or even would like to have access to semi automatic high caliber rifles. Those things are designed for killers, not hunters. Keep gun lobbying politicians away from our laws.

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Remember when the world fell in love with our @Forest_and_Bird #birdofthecentury ? Amazing volunteer efforts have increased the population. It's extremely specialized & with FastTrack legislation having no envtal controls or envtal decision makers, this & other wildlife is at risk

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2 months

Could it be 'game over' for world-famous bird pūteketeke? Forest and Bird says yes

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Nicola Toki

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"RNZ's OIA requests to obtain answers have been rejected on the basis material will be released "proactively". But the agency leading the process cannot guarantee the proactive release will occur before public submissions close." @KiwiFarah #waronnature

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Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close

Not even the MPs supposed to be scrutinising the Fast Track Bill are allowed to know which projects could bypass rules.

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Today I joined the @Breakfaston1 team to talk #birdofthecentury ".. just quietly, we fund our birds in New Zealand to the same extent as IRD wanted to spend on doing up its offices. Just $30M, & 82% of all our birds are threatened with extinction." 😬🌳🐦

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Bird of the Century: John Oliver has had an ‘enormous influence’ |...

Forest and Bird is working hard to determine who the public have picked for Bird of the Century. The delay comes after US talk show John Oliver sparked a gia...

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Nicola Toki

3 months

Govt plan to fast-track infrastructure alarms environmentalists. "The lack of transparency & opportunity for the NZ public to participate in these processes is the most shocking thing.” Be vigilant NZ. Our environment IS our economy. #waronnature

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Govt plan to fast-track infrastructure alarms environmentalists

Chris Bishop says an overly-restrictive consenting process has slowed down progress for too long.

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Nicola Toki

6 months

Poor old kererū, famous for all the wrong reasons...

@gunsnrosesgirl3

Science girl

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6 months

The New Zealand Kereru (wood pigeons) eat so much fruit that it ferments inside them, as they get drunk, they fall from trees

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25 days

Disgraceful

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25 days

After going to the ombudsman F&B’s been successful in getting @cjsbishop to publish who was invited to apply for fast-track. Releasing it the day submissions close is anti-democratic. F&B says the select committee needs to extend the submission process in light of this u-turn.

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Nicola Toki

27 days

Where is the Minister for the Environment? #waronnature

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Rachel Brooking (she/her)

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27 days

Deja vu - another day and another announcement by Ministers about RMA changes WITHOUT the Minister FOR the Environment 🤔 #waronnature Also interesting they didn’t wait for their profit over environment Fast Track Bill (submissions close this Friday night)

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Nicola Toki

2 months

Last week Chris Bishop indicated that the govt were considering publishing the list of projects for the select committee process. It's a crucial part of democracy that people can have a say about things that affect them. Currently there's a blank page in the Bill. #publishthelist

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2 months

"Lobbying is not illegal, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's part and parcel of democracy." National's Chris Bishop on the new fast-track consenting laws and concerns the process will benefit lobbyists - full interview:

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Nicola Toki

2 years

Nearly 15% of NZ’s 2018 net greenhouse gas emissions per year — 8.4M tonnes of CO2 — could be locked into native ecosystem carbon sinks if we controlled feral browsing animals to the lowest possible levels

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Climate change and introduced browsers

www.forestandbird.org.nz

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Nicola Toki

21 days

So brilliant and compulsory viewing for everyone. Also quite funny and we can all do with a giggle. 😃 #whathasnatureeverdoneforus

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Chris Packham

21 days

But seriously , what has nature ever done for us ? You know , apart from the air we breathe , the food we eat , making us healthier . . . Brilliant new ad from @zerohour_uk to promote their Climate & Nature Bill campaign , take action at #EarthDay

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Nicola Toki

4 months

This. I talk about shifting baselines a lot in my public talks. The cartoon sums it up beautifully & is something to be so mindful of. However, in places like Welli, I see the baseline shifting back up, as people accept that abundance of wildlife is their baseline tks @ZEALANDIA

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

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4 months

'Shifting baseline syndrome' explains how extreme ecological depletion is normalised in human society, each generation accepting ever less nature as perfectly fine. The concept is equally valid on land as at sea. 🌍

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1 year

A wee stint sticking up for wetlands this morning, & a plea to politicians to start focusing on both sides of the ledger. Can we please consider the economic benefits of nature based solutions, especially in light of recent weather events? 🌿 #everywetlandcounts @Forest_and_Bird

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Newshub Nation

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1 year

'That is a nonsense point' - Forest & Bird CEO Nicola Toki doesn't buy the government's justification for weakening wetland protection ly/3pdBEoR #NationNZ

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Nicola Toki

2 months

"The fast-tracking agenda threatens to undermine New Zealand's progress on biodiversity protection and other key environmental issues. It erodes rather than sustains the natural capital on which the economy depends." @TimCurran8 #wrongtrack #waronnature

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New Zealand government wants to fast-track approvals of large infrastructure projects. That's bad...

In the latest move to reform environmental laws in New Zealand, the coalition government has introduced a bill to fast-track consenting processes for projects deemed to be of national or regional...

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Nicola Toki

3 months

You wrote to @Forest_and_Bird (spoiler: we def rep sig #s of kiwis but we're not "the public") but you're proposing fasttracking decisions by Ministers in Welli, instead of local public engagement on developments in citizens' own backyards on the places they live in & care about?

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Christopher Bishop

3 months

‘Without letting the public have their say’. I literally wrote to you about it

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Nicola Toki

2 months

He didn't meet with us, but @cjsbishop engaged with mining industry (HT @spider_hoof ). “I acknowledge & thank you for your ongoing & valuable contribution to policy development & reform in the resource management space. I hope you will work with us as we enter the next stage.”

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