B+LNZ backs winter grazing rules review recommendations
16 Dec, 2020 02:00 AM
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The Country
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says it strongly endorses the recommendations of a review into intensive winter grazing rules.
The Environment Southland-led process had been a highly effective way of addressing major concerns with the new rules, B+LNZ chairman Andrew Morrison said.
Morrison thanked Environment Minister David Parker and Minister for Agriculture Damien O Connor for agreeing to consider the recommendations, and also for the way the process was run. There was genuine collaboration across the regional council, sector groups, farmers and Fish & Game. Throughout the process the group maintained a strong focus on workable ways to achieve the desired freshwater health outcomes.
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The Port Hills fire of February 2017. Council should instal CCTV cameras on Port Hil;ls accce4ss roads to track suspicious vehicles, argues Mike Yardley.
OPINION: As a hill-dweller in Huntsbury, memories of the devastating 2017 Port Hills fires still run raw. Like most hill residents, the reports of a spate of suspicious fires being lit last Wednesday fast rekindled that shared sense of dread, fear and “not again”. Saturday morning’s dramatic scrub fire on Hillsborough has only compounded the heightened sense of unease. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) got a spectacularly lucky break that Friday’s howling westerlies weren’t ripping through the early hours of Saturday. Bravo to Fenz for knocking out that fire so effectively, without the loss of any homes.
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