A commentary raises concerns that government policy changes are opening the door to increased development and land sell-offs in New Zealand's high country, threatening its ecological, cultural, and public access values.
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Yeah, and that's been a discussion I've had with many farmers over the years, and I can see the logic of that. You know, what you have, of course, is some of that retired country, which is, you know, now we are seeing holding ponds, it's gone back to dock. You know, some of this through 10-year review, of course, the high country farmers have paid big money in compensation for relinquishing that land back, and now they want some of them want to get access to it again. So there's a bit of an issue. issue of principle here but there's a pragmatic approach to wilding pines that we need to look at very very carefully and you know i can see that if you get the right animals at the right time they will keep on top of some of those wilding pines or the little ones but when they get out of control then of course you've got to do other things and whether it's drone spraying or you know cutting them with we don't know but the government's cut back or not had given very little money for it we through COVID gave 100 million we did get on on top of it we're starting to knock them back but of course there's no further money because you needed tax cuts and they did all sorts of stupid things uh with the budget and there's been no money for wilding fine fines yeah
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threat to ecological integrity
#regional: High Country Under Threat as Development Door Swings Openconfusion and inconsistency in legislative action
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