Aotearoa based Restoration/Applied Ecologist.
Skateboarding, punk rock and plants.
iNaturalist enthusiast https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&user_id=andymckay&verifiable=any
Andy McKay
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The nationally critical Pimelea cryptica.
Known from a handful of sites from coastal Wellington Region.
Aotearoa New Zealand's conservation system means that unlike wildlife, plants have no formal protection status here.
There are over 4,000 AoNZ species threatened or at risk with extinction.
Steve Irwin: "Every single cent I get goes straight into conservation. And guess what, Charles? I don't give a rip whose money it is, mate. I'll use it and I'll spend it on buying land."
Can't say I agree with that. I guess everyone has a different line.
I was looking at a fund yesterday for some serious money that ticked a lot of boxes, that we could probably get, but then looked a little deeper and it's funded by Qatar.
I don't think you can take a principled approach to conservation and fund it by a government known for human rights abuses.
I have no idea who Jim E Brown is but this poster rules.
An infuriating lack of leadership.
"It said there was no national plan for reducing risk, no plan for how the costs of doing so would be shared, and no framework for how communities would be relocated from high-risk areas."
