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Australian company Federation Mining is intent on exploiting a potential “jeweller’s shop” of undiscovered gold beneath the site of abandoned South Island workings.

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Despite the myth, deer are not an ecological substitute for moa and should be part of NZ’s predator-free plan

The impact of deer on Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment is never far from the headlines. Most recently, the Southland Conservation Board highlighted the damage the introduced species was doing to native forest on Rakiura Stewart Island.

The Conversation

Staffing shortages, violence plague Oklahoma prisons

With one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, Oklahoma has struggled for decades to properly staff its prisons

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CCC unearths alleged 'serious misconduct' at Department of Communities, less than a year after Paul Whyte jailed

A former executive assistant to disgraced public servant Paul Whyte allegedly broke the rules in exchange for expensive gifts and luxury dinners before agreeing to pin the blame on Whyte himself, a Corruption and Crime Commission report finds.

ABC News

Conservationists, Ngāi Tahu vying over West Coast land

As an outdoors group goes into bat for more national parkland, the land stewardship review process is called into question.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rikers lapses contributed to 10 jail deaths in 2021 — report cites failure to check detainees, slow emergency responses, vacant posts

NEW YORK — An exhaustive report on 10 of the 16 deaths in 2021 in city jails details a range of staffing problems, systemic failures and mismanagement by jail staff that contributed to the fatalities.

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NZ's inaction on turtle bycatch in fisheries risks reputational damage -- and it's pushing leatherbacks closer to extinction

Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been caught in New Zealand’s commercial fisheries since 2002, according to a recent report released by the Department of Conservation (DOC).

The Conversation

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DEA Psychedelic Drugs Banning Attempt: These Are The Two Hallucinogens Under Discussion

The DEA recently abandoned a proposal for placing five tryptamines as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act.

Benzinga

DoC takes its time on sea change for Waiheke

The proponents of a new marine reserve off the coast of Waiheke Island are accusing the Department of Conservation of “bureaucratic slow-rolling”

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No prosecution for felling of dozens of native trees

An investigation by the local council and DoC has come up short

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New Zealand rescuers use buckets, towels to save stranded dolphins

Volunteers in New Zealand saved seven of nine stranded dolphins on Friday, carrying buckets of water and wrapping the animals in towels to keep them hydrated until the tide on a remote beach rose sufficiently to float them back to sea.

Reuters

Conservation department slow to plug landfill in national park

An underfunded department is accused of dragging its feet over an exposed landfill

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Cost pressures or misplaced priorities? Inside DoC’s subantarctic research cuts

There are challenges to the Conservation Department’s failure to prioritise endangered marine species, using the excuse of Covid control and costs management.

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Prison reform activists demand A/C amid ‘sweltering heat’ within Florida state prisons

ORLANDO, Fla. — On a hot Saturday morning, prison reform advocates and state leaders rallied at Lake Eola Park to bring attention to the thousands of prisoners in Florida who are spending record-breaking summer temperatures without access to air conditioning.

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Rikers Island inmate dies of suspected drug overdose, becoming 10th detainee to die this year

NEW YORK — A Department of Correction officer was fired Monday after a Rikers Island inmate died of a suspected overdose.

Orlando Sentinel

Roe’s end could mean more pregnant women behind bars. Are Florida’s prisons prepared?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Prison reform activists worry the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a federal right to abortion, could lead to more pregnant people behind bars — a scenario some lawmakers in Florida have been trying to curb for years.

Benzinga

Where Physicians Realty Trust Stands With Analysts

Within the last quarter, Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE:DOC) has observed the following analyst ratings:

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Former Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor scheduled to be released Monday

MINNEAPOLIS — Mohamed Noor, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for fatally shooting Justine Ruszczyk Damond in 2017 in the alley behind her home, is scheduled to be released from incarceration next week.

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Search for clues as bodies of hundreds of little blue penguins wash ashore in New Zealand

Conservation officials believe mass die-offs are becoming more frequent as climate crisis disrupts food chains

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Clock ticking for Auckland Island cats

There’s renewed hope for restoring the native flora and fauna on New Zealand’s predator-ravaged subantarctic Auckland Islands.

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New Great Walk over the hump

Tired trampers might sometimes beg to differ with the assertion that the destination counts for less than the journey. But the country’s newest Great Walk should avoid any such argument.

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Agencies fear a Gareth Morgan moment

Foot-dragging over a toxic threat to dolphins might relate to NZ’s sacred cow of pets – cats

Newsroom.co.nz

Huge lift for DoC, including $5m for wages

New funding won’t just keep the financial wolves from DoC’s door but native species from extinction, Minister says

Benzinga

4 Analysts Have This to Say About Physicians Realty Trust

Within the last quarter, Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE:DOC) has observed the following analyst ratings:

The Conversation

Without a better plan, New Zealand risks sleepwalking into a biodiversity extinction crisis

Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand is in serious trouble. With many of our species and habitats at risk of disappearing forever, the government’s 2020 biodiversity strategy sets the scene in stark terms:

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