Catlins forests
Sir,—While public concern is being expressed on the possible fate of the Waitutu Forest, another part of New Zealand’s southern heritage is threatened with destruction. The point of concern here is the unique Catlins coastal forest. The threat to this beautiful area on Southland’s rugged and remote south-east coast is the Japanese pulp market. A combined New Zealand-Japanese consortium has recently established a woodchip mill at Awarua and now the “cancer of clear-felling” seems almost certain to strike the Catlins. The fact that a load of woodchips in the hull of a Japanese ship is equivalent to 350 hectares of native forests and symbolises the death of 2500 native birds should horrify all New Zealanders. After all, why should we sacrifice our heritage for Japanese paper and cardboard? Let us not save Waitutu at the expense of forgetting the Catlins.—Yours, etc WAYNE D. McCALLUM. June 22, 1983.
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