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Despite recent re-affirmations of their commitment to protection policies by both
the Peruvian and Brazilian governments, experts insist that not enough is being done
to safeguard these aboriginal groups. More proactive policies must be put into place.
The National Health Committee has been asked by the Minister of Health, Hon David
Cunliffe, to provide him with additional independent advice on an application that
has been made by Living Cell Technologies Pty Limited to conduct clinical trials ...
The first two kiwi chicks were released from the Pan Pac Kiwi Crèche and returned
to the Hawke?s Bay wilderness today, Friday 4 July 2008. The kiwi chicks arrived
at the brand new predator proof Kiwi crèche at just 20 days old and now, at five ...
An audit of New Zealand climate records should take precedence over foreign computer
models before any decision is reached on emissions trading within this country. This
call has been made by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition through its chairman ...
ERMA New Zealand is gathering information about a proposal to legalise bridal creeper
rust, Puccinia myrsiphylli, a fungus disease that attacks the unwanted weed bridal
creeper (Asparagus asparagoides).
ERMA New Zealand is re-advertising an application to import and release a Brazilian
beetle to control the weed Tradescantia fluminensis, commonly known as wandering
willie.
New Zealand Fast Forward is a bold initiative aimed at transforming the pastoral
and food sectors (including meat, dairy, horticulture, seafood and associated industries)
- economically and environmentally.
The first private sector contributors to the New Zealand Fast Forward initiative
have showed their commitment to the joint industry-government venture, Agriculture
Minister Jim Anderton said today.
Applications are open for the 2008 New Zealand Nuffield Farming Scholarships. Farmers
have until 2pm on August 29 to apply for New Zealand's most prestigious farming award.
The objective for Galileo is the deployment, by 2013, of an EU navigation system
providing five main services, namely the Open Service, the Safety of Life Service,
the Commercial Service, the Public Regulated Service, and the Search and Rescue Service.
An open and strong relationship between the media and science is important for New
Zealand to benefit from both public and private investment in the science system,
Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Pete Hodgson said today.
Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick today announced a major conservation management
and research breakthrough with grand and Otago skinks, and a captive breeding programme
with Otago Skinks, aimed at securing the genetic diversity of the species.
The Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Pete Hodgson, today announced a
number of director and chair appointments and reappointments to the Boards of the
nine Crown Research Institutes and Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand ...
AgResearch Chief Executive Dr Andrew West today announced that Sam Robinson had been
appointed as Chairman of the Crown Research Institute?s Board of Directors.
New Zealand has an enormous challenge ahead of us to make our transport system sustainable.
A fossil hunter has discovered that one of the largest known dinosaurs, a titanosaurid,
roamed New Zealand about 80 million years ago.
New Zealand welcomes the report of the Scientific Committee on Japan?s Special
Permit whaling in the Southern Ocean.
?A Mickey Mouse comic cooked up in haste by a Wellington beltway conspiracy to
save face for a government facing embarrassment of the loss of its shonky emissions
trading bill,? is how the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition describes a report ...
June 25, 2008 ? Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand - Living Cell Technologies
Limited (ASX:LCT; OTC: LVCLY) today reported that patients in the DiabeCell® phase
I/IIa diabetes clinical trial had porcine insulin in their blood samples providing ...
Agriculture arguably represents the number one success story of human development,
underpinning all of our major expansions of civilisation and population on Earth.
Today, agricultural land supplies nearly 90% of human food requirements while occupying ...
The strength of agriculture in New Zealand was its underpinning by science, Agriculture
Minister Jim Anderton said today.
Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been
discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard
the Marine National Facility Research Vessel, Southern Surveyor.
The world's biggest ruminant nutrition specialist Provimi is to visit Winslow to
see the success of a calf feed innovation. Mid Canterbury agribusiness company Winslow
has developed a way that farmers can use the whole milk on hand to feed calves but ...
Clashes in New Caledonia persist over nickel mining and coral reefs as indigenous
Kanaks campaign for customary authorities to have more say in decision-making over
resource development, says an environmental campaigner
"It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found
proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance,"
said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona.
"In a way the situation was like that in Europe before 1492. The discovery of the
new world made profound differences to the old. Spreading out into space will have
even greater effect. It will completely change the future of the human race." - UN.
Clinical trial shows Comvita Medihoney? eradicates MRSA from chronic venous ulcers
Medihoney?antibacterial Leptospermum (Manuka) honey eradicates MRSA from 70% of
chronic venous ulcers and stimulates healing in chronic wounds
Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton is doing a hasty rewind of his beloved Fast Forward
Fund says National?s Agriculture spokesman, David Carter. ?It is becoming increasingly
clear that this on-the-hoof policy has been ill-thought out and is riddled with holes.?
NEWS RELEASE Asperger's Syndrome NZ Please see attached PDF file for full News Release
Sex Selection Recommendation Not Welcomed By People With Asperger?s Syndrome Commenting
on the release of the Bioethics Council recommendation to Government to allow sex ...
Economic Development and Research Science and Technology Minister, Pete Hodgson,
and Communications and Information Technology Minister, David Cunliffe, have announced
a major research programme into personalised robotics in the aged health sector which ...
Associate Environment Minister Nanaia Mahuta today welcomed the Toi te Taiao: Bioethics
Council report on pre-birth testing, entitled Who Gets Born?
Speech notes for Hon Nanaia Mahuta for the Launch of Toi Te Taiao: the Bioethics
Council's report on pre-birth testing, Ministry for the Environment, 18 June 2008,
Wellington, 6.30pm.
Right to Life in defence of life, is opposed to the recommendation of the Bioethics
Council that parents have a right to choose the sex of their children. Sex selection
through IVF and Pre Implantation Diagnosis is immoral and unethical. It is a further ...
Hamilton Zoo is doing its bit to protect a ?vulnerable? species of frog, as
a national public awareness and fundraising campaign is being launched this week
to help address amphibian extinctions.
Family First NZ is opposing the recommendation of the Bioethics Council to give
parents the right to choose the sex of their unborn babies.
Today?s recommendation from the NZ Bioethics Council that couples should be allowed
to destroy embryos based on their sex is frightening Orwellian eugenics, and it would
see unborn Kiwis destroyed purely because of they don?t happen to be the right ...
"Supporting scientific cooperation requires more than creating the right conditions
between countries. It requires governments to invest in education, promote women?s
equality, and encourage entrepreneurship -- in other words, to create the right conditions."
"For a long time the experimental studies carried out on elementary particles, chemical
elements and minerals did not reveal that they had an evolution of their own. This
picture has been drastically changed in recent years by the finding that the elementary ...
Auckland, 17 June 2008 ? The New Zealand Nutrition Foundation and Kellogg New Zealand
today announced the re-launch of a major award which has already helped 10 leading
Kiwi professionals achieve further skills and knowledge in the nutrition field.
Elusive marine leeches in Antarctica are the focus of study on how climate change
is affecting vulnerable fish species.
