Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 17, 2018 17:14:02 GMT 12
IWI TO BUILD FENCES ON NINETY MILE BEACH
Far North iwi are proposing to build fences along beaches - including New Zealand's popular Ninety Mile Beach - to stop vehicles damaging the local environment.
Te Takiwa o Ahipara spokesman Haami Piripi said several hundred hectares of land was returned to iwi during a Treaty settlement three years ago, and they recently received title for it.
About 5kms would be fenced off, to protect "ecological and cultural values" that are wahi tapu [sacred places], he said.
"They will close off access to the sand hills to the extent we can control and restrict the four-wheel drives and motorbikes," Piripi said.
"We have been trying to do this for a while but haven't had the authority....now the land has been returned to us, it allows us, the landowner, to call the shots.".....
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/105508500/iwi-to-build-fences-on-ninety-mile-beach
Far North iwi are proposing to build fences along beaches - including New Zealand's popular Ninety Mile Beach - to stop vehicles damaging the local environment.
Te Takiwa o Ahipara spokesman Haami Piripi said several hundred hectares of land was returned to iwi during a Treaty settlement three years ago, and they recently received title for it.
About 5kms would be fenced off, to protect "ecological and cultural values" that are wahi tapu [sacred places], he said.
"They will close off access to the sand hills to the extent we can control and restrict the four-wheel drives and motorbikes," Piripi said.
"We have been trying to do this for a while but haven't had the authority....now the land has been returned to us, it allows us, the landowner, to call the shots.".....
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/105508500/iwi-to-build-fences-on-ninety-mile-beach