March 25, 2024
How Christchurch hating dolphins manages to sum up NZ right now
Posted On March 25, 2024
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martySir Russell Coutts’ extraordinary attack against the Christchurch city council, the Department of Conservation and local iwi over sailing restrictions for Hector’s Dolphins at his sailing competition, and the chorus of angry voices that have supported him, manages to sum up New Zealand as a culture right now.
Once upon a time, the New Zealand I knew would have had a flotilla of boats out there protesting the SailGP racing as a rich mans toy boat game that was threatening the marine habitat of an endangered species of dolphin.
I’m surprised it was allowed to go ahead at all, but go ahead it did with the help of the Christchurch city council, the Department of Conservation and local iwi who ensured the SailGP racing could occur legally because it is illegal to harm endangered marine animals in a marine sanctuary!
The New Zealand I knew respected endangered dolphins over and above the shallowness of a rich man’s toy boat race.
The New Zealand I knew seems to increasingly be slipping away if the voices of the angry on this issue are anything to go by. The rage that the racing was postponed because endangered dolphins came into a protected marine reserve erupts with such snide confidence and dark revenge fantasies against the dolphins, I personally worry about their mental health.
Perhaps post-quake Christchurch has had too little entertainment, perhaps they desperately need something to collectively enjoy in public, but it almost seems for some in Christchurch, the entertainment would be the boats purposely attacking the dolphins!!!
Turning on local iwi who worked so hard to help the event occur just seems very mean spirited of Coutts.
This Government wants to open up conservation land to trans national mining interests and watching the anger protecting dolphins over a rich boat race caused, I fear our traditional love for our environment has been eroded for the shallowness of the immediate.
Christchurch hating dolphins manages to sum up NZ right now.
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