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Greenpeace volunteers take on climate change with spades and shovels
Posted by tracy on 9 April 2008.
Our office in New Zealand has turned their hands to extreme gardening. The island nation is well known for its burgeoning agricultural industry and now the government is converting 25,000 hectares of forest into large-scale intensive dairy farms.
They are currently clearing in Tahorakuri forest on the central north island and the Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry estimates that 445,000 hectares of forest are at risk of being destroyed and converted primarily for dairy farms. So our office there got their spades out.
Volunteers are currently replanting over 1000 trees on cleared land.
New Zealand's agricultural sector is already responsible for nearly half of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions and the clearly of forest primarily for more dairy farming these emissions will increase. Our kiwi colleagues are calling on the New Zealand government to bring agricultural emissions into the Emissions Trading Scheme within the next two year.
You can read all about their gardening and the Rainbow Warrior visit in New Zealand on their blog.
