Ax akariki (parakeet) celebrates the end of clearfelling in Mokihinui State Forest, Buller County. Young members of the Buller Conservation Group recently dressed up as native birds for a tea party among the blackened stumps of last summer’s firestorm. For many years conservationists have been pressing the Forest Service to plant exotics on the plentiful areas of derelict land on the West Coast, but the clearfelling of publicly-owned land has continued in violation of the Government’s 1975 Indigenous Forest Policy. In the last two years, 2500 hectares of native forest has been clearfelled on the Coast. After a barrage of criticism, the Forest Service has agreed to implement the 10-year-old policy, and clearfellings for exotic conversion will cease later this year. we
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Forest and Bird, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 1985, Unnumbered Page
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