Native Forests Action Council was an

environmental organisation An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environme ...

in New Zealand. It was formed in 1975 from what was the

Beech Forest Action Committee The Beech Forest Action Committee was an environmental organisation based in New Zealand. It was formed in the 1970s as a grassroots group in Auckland to protest against native forest logging. The group was not totally opposed to the logging but ...

to advocate for the protection of native

forest A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense ecological community, community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, ...

s. In the mid-1980s, the group advocated for the core of

North-west Nelson Forest Park North-west Nelson Forest Park, also spelled Northwest Nelson Forest Park and North West Nelson Forest Park, is a forest park that was initially very large and managed by the New Zealand Forest Service until the Department of Conservation (New Ze ...

to be protected as a national park due to extensive mining proposals threatening the area. This ultimately led to

Kahurangi National Park Kahurangi National Park is a national park in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the second largest of the thirteen national parks of New Zealand. It was gazetted in 1996 and covers , ranging from the Buller River near Murc ...

to be formed in 1996. For some time,

Guy Salmon Guy Winston Salmon (born 1949) is a New Zealand environmentalist. Salmon was born in 1949. His father was John Salmon, who was a noted entomologist and professor of zoology at Victoria University of Wellington. His mother was Pamela Naomi Sal ...

was the group's director. The group changed its name to the Maruia Society in 1988. The Maruia Society then became the Ecologic Foundation, with Salmon as its director.

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Native Forest Action
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