2 x Articles 1/4/21 - Wetlands, Climate change

[Kiwi Frontline]

POUTINI NGĀI TAHU WARN COUNCIL OVER MAPPING OF WETLANDS ON MĀORI LAND

Poutini Ngāi Tahu has settled its legal action against West Coast Regional Council over the mapping of Māori land as protected wetland.

The iwi has also fired a shot across the council's bows over the significant natural areas (SNAs) process, which it describes as another bid to confiscate land, and warned it not to "repeat its mistakes".....

www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/439582/poutini-ngai-tahu-warn-council-over-mapping-of-wetlands-on-maori-land

[Kiwi Frontline]

CONSULTATION OFFER TO COUNTER CLIMATE WHITE OUT

Independent Māori climate change commissioner Donna Awatere Huata is offering to collate Māori views for inclusion in the final report of the Climate Change Commission.

"We are all asking for the same thing, for a Te Tiriti partnership. We want to be at the table. We don't want to be talking to wall to wall white bureaucrats who have no capacity to take our thinking and translate it into policy. We actually want to sit at the policy table, and that did not happen," Ms Awatere-Huata says......

www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjY5NDc/Consultation-offer-to-counter-climate-white-out