{"id":76490,"date":"2026-02-25T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/25\/new-zealand-plan-to-abolish-environment-ministry"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:41:42","slug":"anger-over-plans-to-abolish-new-zealands-dedicated-environment-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76490","title":{"rendered":"Anger over plans to abolish New Zealand\u2019s dedicated environment ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say proposal to fold department into a new \u2018mega ministry\u2019 will dilute accountability and put nature protections at risk <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s government is seeking to abolish its dedicated environment ministry to cut down on bureaucracy, a move critics say could dilute environmental protections.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, the department would be folded into a new \u201cmega-ministry\u201d that will cover housing, urban development, transport, local government and the environment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/25\/new-zealand-plan-to-abolish-environment-ministry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say proposal to fold department into a new \u2018mega ministry\u2019 will dilute accountability and put nature protections at risk New Zealand\u2019s government is seeking to abolish its dedicated environment ministry to cut down on bureaucracy, a move critic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490\/revisions\/76491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}