Bird hide opened at last
THE Thames/Hauraki (formerly Coromandel) branch’s bird hide in the Thames estuary, opposed by miners and the district council (see Branching Out May 1992), has finally been finished. Forest and Bird field officer Ann Graeme formally opened the hide and the connecting 70-metre boardwalk across the mangrove swamp in November. The hide, almost alongside the Thames Pak’n Save, will provide access to view and study the 30 or so bird species which frequent the estuary. However, a recent threat to the wetland has arisen. Against the advice of his department, the Minister of Conservation has given the go-ahead to a prospecting licence over 800 hectares of the estuary including the area of the hide. Local conservationists, the Maori
trust board and the Thames District Council have filed for a judicial review of the Minister’s decision.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FORBI19930201.2.10.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
139Bird hide opened at last Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
For material that is still in copyright, Forest & Bird have made it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This periodical is not available for commercial use without the consent of Forest & Bird. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this magazine please refer to our copyright guide.
Forest & Bird has made best efforts to contact all third-party copyright holders. If you are the rights holder of any material published in Forest & Bird's magazine and would like to discuss this, please contact Forest & Bird at editor@forestandbird.org.nz
Log in