The Decline of New Zealand Wetlands
The Decline of New Zealand Wetlands
‘Yeah, people talk about the deforestation in Brasil and Indonesia, which certainly is terrible and needs to be curtailed, but practically every country has been guilty of the destruction of valuable native wildlands in the pursuit of greater croplands or farms, or for building material or some valuable resource.
For instance, the British Isles were once thickly covered in oak trees, and wouldn’t that make a useful caron sink right now, but no-one is suggesting we reforest the farmlands of Kent or Surrey.
If the richer countries, including Britain and New Zealand, don’t want to be the worst kind of hypocrites they should be doing much more to aid those countries that have developed slower to hold on to the undisturbed forests, wetlands and savana that they have left, and that should include financial incentives’