Booklet launched on Banks Peninsula
In 1770, Captain James Cook described it as an island. Yesterday, in Christchurch, the chairman of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, Mr Peter Elworthy, described Banks Peninsula as a “unique segment” of the New Zealand environment.
The trust yesterday launched its new 31-page booklet on the Peninsula’s natural and human landscape. “The Banks Peninsula Landscape” is the result of more than five years research by a team of geologists, environmentalists and historians, coordinated by the trust’s staff.
“One purpose of the booklet is to better equip landowners, local authority councillors and the general public for decision making about future
changes to the peninsula that will undoubtedly occur,” Mr Elworthy said in the booklet’s foreword. "The National Trust believes that if people understand what formed the landscape, how it has evolved and what makes it what it is, then they are more likely to be sympathetic towards it — and more conscious of the development and management practices that will change it.”
The booklet traces the formation of Banks Peninsula from its first appearance as a volcanic island 10 to 15 million years ago to the impact of the European settlers in the nineteenth century. The history of Maori settlement of the region and the surviving traces of Polynesian occupants are included alongside a
history of agriculture and the future of the landscape.
“The publication is both useful and productive. It goes deeply into the history of the peninsula and the radical changes in land use it has experienced. It will be especially valuable for the region’s landowners,” Mr Elworthy said.
The National Trust has become involved with Banks Peninsula through an Open Space Covenant scheme through which private landowners can ensure protection for important geological features, forest remnants and headlands.
Local authorities in the peninsula will now distribute copies of the new booklet to all ratepayers.
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Press, 28 November 1987, Page 7
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