You are invited to pop by our stall (Site 20-11) at the Newtown fair on Sunday 8 March from 9:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It is on Green Street, located on the left as you walk up Green Street.
Why are we acting to save Denniston Plateau?
Denniston Plateau is a unique lost world on the West Coast, under threat from a massive coal mining operation.
Scientists rate Denniston’s unique ecological patterns. Commissioners reviewing the last application for mining admitted experiencing “considerable reservations and anguish”.
It is a biodiversity hotspot with unique reptiles, including the West Coast green gecko, iconic fauna including the carnivorous land snail, and avatar moth, and ancient flora including bonsai-like forests with knee-high southern rata and pygmy pines.
Many of the life forms found here exist nowhere else in New Zealand. Open cast mining will destroy this ecosystem. You cannot destroy an entire complex food web that has taken millions of years to develop and expect that these treasures will survive. Moreover, acid mine damage will perist and become a long term toxic legacy.
How you can help?
1. Become more knowledgable and share that knowledge https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/save-denniston-qa
2. Write to your MP and write to the Conservation Minister to reclassify Denniston Plateau as a Scientific Reserve. 3. Sign the petition on our website: Forest & Bird website 4. Join your local Forest and Bird branch. Forest & Bird website
Your support is appreciated.