Environmental groups clarify qualities of stewardship land

The Chief Executives of four leading ENGOs (EDS, Greenpeace Aotearoa, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Forest & Bird) have presented the Prime Minister with a Memorandum that called out some of his Ministers for misrepresenting the quality of stewardship land in public.

Environmental Defence Society CEO Gary Taylor says the group clarified that far from being ‘scrubby’ land as one Minister has said publicly, most stewardship land has outstanding ecological and landscape values. Denigrating its qualities to justify coal mining is totally misleading.