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What sparked DoC’s ‘flawed’ media permits
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8/02/2021
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Top Conservation Department bosses ordered a review of media access, and then seemingly forgot to check the result. David Williams reports
In July 2018, kauri dieback reached crisis point.
Stuff reported the fatal disease was nearing the country’s largest remaining kauri tree, Tāne Mahuta, which has stood in Northland’s Waipoua forest for more than 2000 years.
The iconic native tree, a big pull for Northland’s tourism industry, could be infected within a year, the story warned. Scientist Amanda Black accused Ministry for Primary Industries of mishandling the issue and muzzling scientists. (MPI replied that the recovery process had been agreed and research findings and other reports had been made available to the public.) ....

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