Wetlands
Sir, —The environmental council’s 1983 publication, "Wetlands: A Diminishing Resource,” emphasised the urgent need for a national inventory of wetlands. By November, 1985, such an inventory had been compiled in rough form, co-ordinated by the Commission for the Environment. Since then the Biological Resources Centre, with funds from the Environmental Council, has been coding and entering the data on the D.S.I.R. computer. W.E.R.I. (Wetlands of Ecological and Representative Importance) is an inventory of existing information on wetlands, ranking them in respect of local, regional, national and international significance, for which the B.R.C. ecological district framework was invaluable. Statements by Mr Fraser Colman (“The Press,” May 31) suggest the Government has little determination to honour the national wetlands policy it ratified in February. There should be a moratorium on further wetlands drainage (except on developed farmland) at least until the inventory is available on the computer file for study in connection with all new proposals.—Yours, etc., ERIC BENNETT. Wellington, June 8, 1986. »
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