And what they are up to - all for gold, obviously

and lets face it, theres stuff all that they can decline it on, given how the law is written....

Aotearoa is being backed into a corner where we are supposed to be grateful for the abuse these companies dish out.
It's just not right.
It's just not.

They are creating a system where we are expected to look to destructive industries like mining to (give us peanuts) to fund predator control, to research and support internationally significant threatened native species, to create (unsustainable) jobs.

*Oceanas

Presumably you just drop the word 'no'.

“The donations from the mining industry do not have any impact whatsoever on the changes to the Wildlife Act....” Shane Jones
Just curious, who was alleging that?? NZ First took $14k from Clayton Cosgrove who works for Oceana Gold..

habitat disturbance (those frogs aren't the only thing up there) and fragmentation, the toxic legacy that gold mining leaves and creates, the social impacts of reliance on boom and bust industry, the downstream effects...... etc

I can clarify that we are concerned about a lot more than *just8 the tiny 200million year old frog Mr Jones is so hung up on! There are a range of concerns: impacts on water, on the forest from dewatering in a time of climate crisis and increasing droughts,