The National Party is proposing to reduce the already stretched budget of the NZ #DepartmentofConservation by a whopping $46 million.
The chief executives of Forest & Bird, WWF-New Zealand and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) have just put out a joint press release highlighting how insane this is.
“I can think of no more expedient way to shoot ourselves in the foot,” said Dr Kingdon-Bebb [CEO of WWF-New Zealand]
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2309/S00116/leading-environmental-groups-deeply-concerned-at-proposed-defunding-of-doc.htm
#conservation #nz #NZpol
@f4f101c0
I just got out of the bush after volunteering for a project that’s largely funded by DoC. National Party proposing to cut their funding is going to endanger our bush even more than it already is. This is rubbish. National Party can go jump in a lake (full of didymo).
#NZPol #NationalNotFitToGovern
@f4f101c0 "DOC’s budget is about the same as the Christchurch City Council’s, but it has to look after a third of Aotearoa,” Ms Toki said.
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@f4f101c0 If it wasn't for Helen Clarke, we wouldn't have half the provision that DOC makes to our society now.
That legacy doesn't exist in a National brain.
They are too thick.
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