FYI: Don’t privatise the high country
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:11 pm
Conservation and recreation groups are calling on the government to halt plans to privatise New Zealand’s high country. Forest & Bird, the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations, Federated Mountain Clubs, Public Access NZ and the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers fear the Government will sell Crown-owned land in the South Island high country into private ownership....
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0907/S00079.htm
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