Comments on: Extreme gardening

By: Croydon

Croydon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:28:00 +0000

I’m not a Greenpeace activist. Just a tree planter looking for disposable natives.

By: jojo

jojo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:19:29 +0000

Great idea Croydon - Go for it!

By: Croydon

Croydon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:05:26 +0000

Oh Susannah … many thanks for the follow-up.
I’m guessing there would be more community groups wanting the natives than the couple of thousand eucalypts. Not to worry. We don’t want the Australian natives either

As a matter of interest are you planning on disposing of any Aotearoa natives in the South Island any time soon? A good tree planting protest on the Waitaki Plains would suit well (closer to our native planting area). Surely the 50+litres of water it takes to produce 1 litre of milk would be worthy of protest on the Waitaki Plains? Or the “contamination of our land and waterways” (ref: your YouTube piece). Protest at will.

By: Susannah

Susannah — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:38 +0000

Croydon - unfortunately Greenpeace has no say over who the trees are donated to. Landcorp stated that the owners of the land would donate the trees to a community group but haven’t yet announced which community group.

By: jojo

jojo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:17:08 +0000

Hi Anna,
Have you considered why some farmers might be struggling? - That drought-prone land (a condition which will be worsened by increased climate change) is in fact unsuitable for dairy farming in the first place?
We’d be better off with trees!
jojo

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:11:10 +0000

Wondering if greenpeace are pleased with the very minimal level of publicity this unfortunate stunk has raised, forget about the struggling farming community in which you have damaged precious winter feed, as local papers already state farmers are having to destroy their own stock due to severe drought conditions (Taupo Times), the worst since 1969, at least you can go back to Auckland and sleep at night

By: Croydon

Croydon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:10:15 +0000

Just wondering which community group the natives were donated to. We’re replanting a native block on our home farm and would love some Greenpeace throwaway totara and other natives … that’s Aotearoa natives not the Aussie natives planted in the demonstration planting …

Look forward to your call.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:07:50 +0000

A great effort to draw more attention to the hypocrisy of the New Zealand Government which is claiming to be clean and green whilst acting in the completely opposite manner. I wonder what will happen to our tourism and agricultural exports when the rest of the world realizes the real state things in ‘clean, green’ New Zealand? If only the commercial and business world would realize the huge potential profit in New Zealand being TRULY clean, green, GE Free and organic.

By: christine rose

christine rose — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:34:39 +0000

Fantastic effort in a highly symbolic way to draw attention to the hugely unsustainable removal of forest with massive indirect and direct environmental effects, with benefits to a few “Auckland businessmen”. Keep up the great work.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:58:54 +0000

Thank you - it is an important issue and you bring attention to it successfully.

There have been far too many dairy conversions recently and they are unsustainable from an environmental and therefore also from an economic perspective. The boom in dairy will pass and we will be left with a yet more damaged environment to contend with.

Thank you.