Weekly Catchup w/ The Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez March: 19 February, 2025

The government recently announced a new fund of $30 million dollars towards biodiversity and tourism infrastructure projects. 

The $19 million in this fund going towards biodiversity funding would be invested in: Stopping the spread of wallabies and managing pest populations in National Parks, targeted predator control to protect native bird species and wilding pine removal.

Just before this announcement, members of Destiny Church held disruptions at multiple pride events over the weekend, including one at Te Atatū library in West Auckland which resulted in a number of library staff and bystanders getting injured in the confrontation.

Additionally, a deportation notice was given to Daman Kumar - an 18 year old of Indian origin who was born and raised in Aotearoa, telling him to leave the country and migrate to India by Monday this week. 

For his weekly catchup with the Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez-March, Oto discussed all of these recent events with him for the Green Party’s take on the issue