Environmental groups fear the Government’s reduction in funding for conservation is a ecological and economic misstep.
Thursdays’ Budget showed conservation funding would decrease from $423 million in the 2008/09 financial year to $419 million next year and $380 million in 2010/11.
Under Labour, funding for conservation had increased from $280 million in the 2004/05 financial year to $423 million in 2008/09.
Conservationists expressed concern that a reduction in funding would strain New Zealand’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and undermine the protection of native species and forest.
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World carbon emissions must start to decline in only six years if humanity is to stand a chance of preventing dangerous global warming, a group of 20 Nobel prize-winning scientists, economists and writers declared today.
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