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Members of the Banks Peninsula Native Forest/Climate Change group this month met with Climate Change Minister James Shaw to outline the difficulties they face. Projects that followed in Hinewai’s footsteps allowed native bush to grow back on its own without any planting, using gorse as a nurse plant. But members told Shaw many were struggling to meet ETS guidelines.
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Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust manager Suky Thompson makes her way down the Te Ahu Pātiki block. The trust needed money from carbon credits to help pay for ongoing fencing and pest control but in an assessment previous landowners had done, just 62 of its 500ha would qualify, manager Suky Thompson said.