Forest & Bird on the Emergency Budget: Friday, the 12th of June

Forest & Bird is calling on Aucklanders to tell their council to reinstate protection for nature in this year’s budget.

The Auckland Council’s ‘Emergency Budget’ more than halves the Environmental Services capital expenditure budget, dropping support for pest control, the kauri dieback programme, and planting, among other things.

Forest & Bird’s Auckland Regional Manager, Nick Beveridge, says “our natural world is in crisis” & “these are things we must act on now”. Producer Louis Laws spoke with him this morning on the Auckland Councils proposal ...