Meeting our conservation challenge
Our natural environment is one of our greatest assets. New Zealand is blessed with spectacular landscapes and an abundance of wildlife. Access to them underpins our Kiwi way of life.
At the heart of National’s “Bluegreen” approach is the belief that successful economic and conservation policy can, and must, go hand-in-hand. A stronger economy can better provide the means to restore, maintain, and enhance the environment.
We, and millions of tourists each year, enjoy some of the most pristine and accessible natural beauty in the world.
Unfortunately predators threaten our native wildlife. Rats, stoats, and possums kill 25 million native birds every year. Even our most iconic species – the brown kiwi – which once numbered in the millions, is now down to about 25,000 and without intervention will not exist in the wild for our grandchildren.
Protecting our endangered native species is our number one conservation challenge.
That’s why National has launched the Department of Conservation’s largest-ever species protection programme – Battle for Our Birds.
A predator plague poses a serious threat to our endangered native wildlife this autumn. The protection programme will extend pest control, mainly using 1080, to cover an extra 500,000 hectares of forest to help protect 12 key species including kiwi, kaka, and kea.
We have also recently established three new marine reserves surrounding the Antipodes Islands, the Bounty Islands, and Campbell Islands, in New Zealand’s subantarctic ocean. These areas are considered some of the most pristine marine environments in the world, and the reserves aim to keep them that way, with the area coming under protection being thirteen times larger than the total area of all the reserves on New Zealand’s three main islands.
Within the reserves, no fishing, mining, petroleum exploration or marine farming is allowed. This ensures protection for an incredible diversity of wildlife and our precious natural heritage.
National remains committed this year to creating a record number of marine reserves. It is part of our balanced programme of economically developing some ocean areas and setting others aside for permanent protection.
National is working hard to provide real leadership on conservation challenges in a sensible “Bluegreen” way. We recognise the importance of balancing conservation concerns with economic ones.
Conservation is about protecting our natural resources now and for the future, so every generation can appreciate and enjoy the beauty of our great outdoors.
To read the full special feature on Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, National Party constant endeavours to help improve the lives of the public, do read:
Indian Weekender March 14th Issue (Pgs19-22)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/212373614/Indian-Weekender-Vol-5-Issue-119#page=18
Our natural environment is one of our greatest assets. New Zealand is blessed with spectacular landscapes and an abundance of wildlife. Access to them underpins our Kiwi way of life. At the heart of National’s “Bluegreen” approach is the belief that successful economic and conservation policy...
Our natural environment is one of our greatest assets. New Zealand is blessed with spectacular landscapes and an abundance of wildlife. Access to them underpins our Kiwi way of life.
At the heart of National’s “Bluegreen” approach is the belief that successful economic and conservation policy can, and must, go hand-in-hand. A stronger economy can better provide the means to restore, maintain, and enhance the environment.
We, and millions of tourists each year, enjoy some of the most pristine and accessible natural beauty in the world.
Unfortunately predators threaten our native wildlife. Rats, stoats, and possums kill 25 million native birds every year. Even our most iconic species – the brown kiwi – which once numbered in the millions, is now down to about 25,000 and without intervention will not exist in the wild for our grandchildren.
Protecting our endangered native species is our number one conservation challenge.
That’s why National has launched the Department of Conservation’s largest-ever species protection programme – Battle for Our Birds.
A predator plague poses a serious threat to our endangered native wildlife this autumn. The protection programme will extend pest control, mainly using 1080, to cover an extra 500,000 hectares of forest to help protect 12 key species including kiwi, kaka, and kea.
We have also recently established three new marine reserves surrounding the Antipodes Islands, the Bounty Islands, and Campbell Islands, in New Zealand’s subantarctic ocean. These areas are considered some of the most pristine marine environments in the world, and the reserves aim to keep them that way, with the area coming under protection being thirteen times larger than the total area of all the reserves on New Zealand’s three main islands.
Within the reserves, no fishing, mining, petroleum exploration or marine farming is allowed. This ensures protection for an incredible diversity of wildlife and our precious natural heritage.
National remains committed this year to creating a record number of marine reserves. It is part of our balanced programme of economically developing some ocean areas and setting others aside for permanent protection.
National is working hard to provide real leadership on conservation challenges in a sensible “Bluegreen” way. We recognise the importance of balancing conservation concerns with economic ones.
Conservation is about protecting our natural resources now and for the future, so every generation can appreciate and enjoy the beauty of our great outdoors.
To read the full special feature on Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, National Party constant endeavours to help improve the lives of the public, do read:
Indian Weekender March 14th Issue (Pgs19-22)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/212373614/Indian-Weekender-Vol-5-Issue-119#page=18
Leave a Comment