Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands
National say they will "unleash growth". That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with "high ecological value" - representing 2/3 of the entire estate.
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National want to open up ~2/31 of our entire conservation estate for sale / commercialisation and exchange.
And, at the same time they are in the process of eliminating substantive protections from foreigners2 and corporations snapping up our land and assets3
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