Ask John Key to protect our national parks from mining

Posted 14 years ago    2 comments

March 2010

Forest & Bird E-Alert

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Ask John Key to protect our national parks from mining

The Government plans to open up some of New Zealand’s most precious places to mining. So far, these areas are targeted - 

• Te Ahumata plateau on Great Barrier Island (about 700ha)
• Otahu Ecological Area (396ha) and Parakawai Geological Reserve (70ha) near Whangamata and 2500ha near Thames township
• Eastern Paparoa National Park, near Inangahua (3000ha)

On top of this, the Government will spend $4 million looking at the mining potential of almost 500,000 hectares – more than five times the size of Tongariro National Park – in other national parks.

New Zealand’s most precious conservation areas are protected from mining.  Their landscapes, plants and animals are unique. Apart from their intrinsic value, they can generate far greater long-term economic benefit through tourism and recreation than mining.

Low-impact mining is impossible in these areas because such massive quantities of rock must be excavated and crushed for traces of gold or silver or to extract coal.

You can help stop this. Please save our national parks and other core conservation areas from mining by sending this e-card to Prime Minister John Key. 

Photos: Stockton Mine, Pete Lusk; Coromandel’s Otahu Ecological Area, Kim Westerskov; North Island Brown Kiwi, Rod Morris; Kaka, Brent Bevan; Hochstetter's Frog, GS Shirley. 


Comments

14 years ago
Hiya folks i sent email to John Key just to let him know that the partners of the Queen being the Maori are working on the wooden sign(Maori Bank). Training our young unemployed as tour guides to show the world our beautiful bank, how much is it worth? its priceless. Why distroy such a beautiful place to dig for something you cant eat. Also this will make it sustainable for the future generations. By doing what they think they are going to do,who is crazy here? The settler govt is broke and are calling some absolutly crazy moves here.Dont be too worried about Maori sorting this out, get in behind us we all want better life. When have you heard something good from a business going broke and that to us is what is happening. I mean Maori can for $100, turn this action into a multy millon dollar operation with heaps of jobs from its out come.
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