Okarito Forest
Sir, — The recent Okarito outrage, where the sawmillers at the Forest Service instigation are moving quietly in to decimate our country’s last endowments of native bush, has brought into question the moral worth of such “trustees of our environment.” The Nature Conservation Council provided the answer, and I quote from that lapsed document, the Hunn Report: “A nature conservancy on the British model had several advocates, including the Nature Conservation Council itself. We believe this idea is too ambitious to entertain at present, though it may well eventuate in time.” I submit
that that time is well overdue, and our native forests should be placed under the safe keeping of an environment conservancy. — Yours, etc.,
TOM HAY. March 16, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34105, 18 March 1976, Page 16
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