New Plymouth: New Zealand's city of amazing free activities. Yea right:
This mornings Daily News head-- line is so typical of what I am always on about. "FREE", the reporter is either that naïve that she walks around with blinkers on, listening to all the spin doctored chatter at the Purple Palace head quarters! Or maybe she is the new breed that believes in myths and Fairy tales . These facilities cost the individual district's rate payers millions and millions of hard earned, tax paid plus GST, dollars.
Can she please rewrite this fairy tale without blinkered or Spin Doctored, using her own, independent looking eyes. Just imagine if she can, if that money being paid to those "FREE" facilities; that border on Fraudulent how they were obtained, was either left where it belonged legally, the rate payer pocket, or was only used for the core facilities that the NZ Local Govt Act states. It beggars belief that the local Daily Rag even printed it, little alone gave it front page. This is the biases dribble that the public are being forced to read, and to be taken as truth! Fake News!!!!!! think a bit about what Im saying please!
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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