off the wireless

An article published this week in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, scientists have ranked the conservation status of 51 native fish to determine how threatened they are. More than two-thirds are classed as ‘Threatened’ or ‘At Risk’.

The National Government has backed down on mining on schedule 4 land but says that it now has a “mandate” to go prospecting elsewhere. Isn’t all indigenous tree covered land precious in New Zealand?