Forestry incentives
Sir,—The remarks of the Minister of Forests, Mr Elworthy, and Sir Basil Arthur on increasing tax and other incentives for forestry (April 10) have to be viewed with dismay by all people concerned with the destruction of New Zealand’s unique flora and fauna. With the present forestry encouragement grants, a carte blanche subsidy of 45 per cent of all costs of land development for forestry, using taxpayers’ money, is used to clear land, including bush, scrub and wetland, without any screening or control to ensure that important or representative areas of vegetation or habitat are protected. Why can not the Wildlife Service, the D.S.LR. Biological Resource Centre and parks and reserves boards be informed before agricultural or forestry development begins so they can determine the values at risk and so- that subsequent decisions are based on a full awareness by all parties?—Yours, etc., S. K. F. ERICKSEN. April 10, 1984.
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