Professor Haikai Tane doesn't mince his words. Speaking at a public meeting hosted by the Orari Catchment and Protection Society, Professor Tane told those assembled that we're doing it all wrong.
"Algae are nature's warning" he said, "the keep livestock out of the rivers until systems are restored."
Interesting perspective that.
He went on to describe how overstocking with hard-hooved animals "undermines the function of floodplain habitats."
Professor Tane had some suggestions for the reparation of the harm our forebears did and that we continue to do. " Massive reforestation" on the hills and removing hard-hoved animals from the land and raising them indoors.
I'd have loved to have been in that meeting hall when all of this went down.
The report of Haikai Tane's hard-hitting delivery was carried by the Straight Furrow farming rag and written by Sandra Finnie.
Good stuff Sandra!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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The hill comment is interesting and is something I think needs to be regulated.
I have seen landowners clearing relatively steep hill sides and terrace slopes with little regard to erosion and run off issues.
A lot of this activity is hard to understand from an economic perspective as land becomes limited in real value to a farm once the slope gets too steep, yet they clear it off anyway.
I think a valid argument could be made in erosion prone areas for consent to be necessary to clear steep slopes, it wouldn't be hard to measure.
I support all you say there, Shunda.
Woo hoo!!
People that pollute rivers?
Trash ;).
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