Tue, 16 Dec 2008 8:50 am – Posted by Colin Ryder | 8 Comments
Guest Blogger: Colin Ryder, Wellington Branch
The announcement of Wellington’s marine reserve off the coast of Island Bay earlier this year was met with a sort of exhausted ‘hurrah’ from advocates at Forest & Bird. We were elated, but somewhat battle-weary given that we had fought for this marine reserve for 17 years.
I can’t remember what exactly I was wearing on the day we decided to take this proposal to the council but it was probably something suitably early nineties – stonewash zip-up jeans perhaps?
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Tags: marine reserves
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 1:30 pm – Posted by Helen | 9 Comments
Just three weeks till the election and while the polls are tightening up a bit I probably wouldn’t be a making wildly speculative punt in predicting that they might be rearranging the furniture in the Beehive soon.
That thought has been exercising the minds of environmental types lately, in particular thinking about what a change of government would mean for conservation.
Mostly (but not entirely) the thinking among them is that a centre-Right government wouldn’t be a good thing. Me, I’m prepared to wait and see. In a past life as a press gallery journalist I spent far too much time in daily close proximity to politicians to maintain any delusion that any particular party had a monopoly on good policy in any given area, conservation included.
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Tags: conservation, conservation parks, dairying, Department of Conservation, election, envirovote, fish stocks, hector's dolphins, marine reserves, policy, seabirds
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