Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 20, 2017 17:17:04 GMT 12
KEN MAIR: IT IS TIME TO PUT THE ASPIRATIONS OF TUNA FIRST
Te Wai Māori Trust recently hosted the second National Māori Tuna Conference at Wanganui.
We were pleased to bring together over 200 iwi, commercial and customary fishing interests, scientists and policy advisers from central and local government, independent experts and scientists to talk about Tuna (Eel).
For the first time the innate values, or rights, of a natural resource are defined at law via kawa, our indigenous world-view.
The steady undermining of the status of tuna is akin to the undermining of our whakapapa.
....an invigorating debate about the pros and cons of the various legal options that could uphold Te Mana o Ngā Tuna, namely legal protection, legal recognition or legal personality......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1707/S00279/ken-mair-it-is-time-to-put-the-aspirations-of-tuna-first.htm
Te Wai Māori Trust recently hosted the second National Māori Tuna Conference at Wanganui.
We were pleased to bring together over 200 iwi, commercial and customary fishing interests, scientists and policy advisers from central and local government, independent experts and scientists to talk about Tuna (Eel).
For the first time the innate values, or rights, of a natural resource are defined at law via kawa, our indigenous world-view.
The steady undermining of the status of tuna is akin to the undermining of our whakapapa.
....an invigorating debate about the pros and cons of the various legal options that could uphold Te Mana o Ngā Tuna, namely legal protection, legal recognition or legal personality......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1707/S00279/ken-mair-it-is-time-to-put-the-aspirations-of-tuna-first.htm