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August 10, 2023
Dairy damage highlights taiao challenge
Atereano Mateariki
Posted On August 10, 2023
Download AudioForest & Bird chief executive Nicola Toki says a sharp drop in the expected milk fat pay-out shows the folly of putting GDP growth ahead of environmental protection.
The organisation recently held its centenary conference, and she says it’s been a 100 year battle to protect what’s left of the ngāhere.
She says in recent decades governments and banks have incentivised the expansion of dairying, to the detriment of other sectors of the economy and the taiao.
“So half of all our rivers in New Zealand are now un-swimmable. Most of our lakes are severely polluted and one of the things I loved about that conference was the rangatahi panel because in that panel the young people were saying ‘You know what – the system isn’t really working for us. We need a new system,'” Ms Toki says
Forest & Bird is looking for more ways to work with tangata whenua.
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