Send a submission to help protect the Mackenzie Country. Two properties - The Wolds and Maryburn - are up for tenure review, and it's proposed that most of their land be privatised. That's a fast track to dairying and intensive development. Say goodbye to tussock and other high country natives.
Forest & Bird wants the tenure reviews put on hold. It takes less than a minute of your time to make a quick submission here:
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/saving-our-environment/high-country-/the-mackenzie-country-%E2%80%93-selling-our-%E2%80%98big-sky-country%E2%80%99-stealth
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Mackenzie tenure review - Help!
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Thanks Em for posting this up... this is really a horrifying one for NZers, you can bet that all of that last remaining 'big sky country' will be privatised and turned to vivid green crop circles... what a shame for the 900 000 tourists a year that travel there (and contribute to the $4billion high country tourism revenue). PLEASE write TWO submissions, before we lose our high country heritage forever.
NicolaPosted 1 year ago # -
Hi guys, i'm really keen to hear how many of you have made submissions, and how many of you have passed this information on to all of your friends. the proposal to freehold thousands of hectares of this land will mean our precious Mackenzie will be turned into vast green circles and pivot irrigators.
There's currently a collaborative process going ahead which we are a part of, but the tenure reviews are still proceeding regardless.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/4662083/Review-could-pre-empt-trust
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Hi Nic
Apart from the concern around the tenure review of these two properties, i have another concern i would like to raise.
That is that Jackie Dean appears to have her eyes on the Community Environment Fund (CEF) for this Sustainble Future Trust project.
While potentially a valuable exercise there are many existing community organisations that have been starved of MFE money since the government put everything on hold to 'review' it. Now some of that former funding is available again via the community environment fund. I'm not particularly comfortable with the Minister cobbling together a collaborative initiative about a week before the application deadline and publicly stating that the money should come from the CEF.
Perhaps those groups that have put significant time and resources into developing their bids shouldn't have bothered.
If the National Government want to force a particular collabrotive model on to people they should not do so at the expense of genuine grass roots environmental initiatives.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Where can I find more information about F&B's proposed drylands park and how the Wolds and Maryburn are integral to it please?
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One thing I'd like to know, now the Govt Dept's are also about to bound by the Pest Management Strategy.
If a dryland park was created in the MacKenzie, would enough money be avaliable in the current budget to control pest plants & animals (rabbits)
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