Save Waipoua Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- This short film explores the impacts of a possum plague on Waipoua, the most iconic forest in Aotearoa. It presents solutions and an opportunity for the public to encourage our Department of Conservation to take action.
This forest is in a state of crisis!
Sign the petition here - www.SaveWaipouaForest.com
onefornature.org.nz/petitions...
DOC is a decade overdue in delivering essential work to keep this forest alive. Under poor management and lack of leadership we are witnessing thousands of centuries old trees die.
We can turn this around we have the tools we just need the will.
Please let me know what you think of this film in the comments.
Produced by Timothy Firkin and Geoff Reid
www.SaveWaipouaForest.com
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Keep on educating the world and creating awareness Geoff and crew. The world needs more people like you. Aluta Continua to save our planet🌏🌊🙏💙
This documentary is up there above national geographic.. david attenborough and his team needs to find this.
Kia Kaha, brother, change must come from D.O.C!! This mahi is fantastic.
Thank you Josh. Yes, and it is needed urgently. Systemic change! Public should be able to rely on DOC to deliver their basic conservation duties.
Oh my heart 😢 Thank you for what you are doing, I love our forests . Please step up Doc. Totora not just for our birds but insects too . Ours are full of ngarara rakau (stick insects) it’s a whole world in just one tree. 🥰Don’t want to see them disappear.
Well done Geoff for getting the message out.
Thank you. Have you signed the petition
@@GeoffReidNZ Sure have :)
Thank you brother,you make a difference,your videos are good ,good work.here from me to you an reading✋♥️💜💜🌈🙏
Bloody great work, lets save Waipoua
Thank Shaun. Time we got serious.
8 years mahi overdue Waipoua. imagine if we held back the operational manger's pay check for 8 year...?
Thankyou for bringing awareness to this and providing us with education about our own country. Sad to see the amount of forest that has been deforested over the years... poor animals
Kia ora Levi
Thank you for spreading awareness
Good on you mate, the voice of reason!
Thank you Guy. Wish it didnt have to come to this.
this is extremely powerful and educational mate, love your work
🙌 thank you brother. Team effort this one.
Worth saving!
kiaora Geof Reid NZ thank you for pushing this mahi all the time. You are so right a damn disgrace NZ Government. In my opinion, it appears to me that all you politicians worry about is your wages. Kia kaha Geof & supporters I applaud you all. Stay safe & travel well.
Nice work on this.. solid man 👍
Appreciate it! We got a result . About 20000ha treated. Chuur
Very very powerful mate, thanks for your work
Great work and message mate.
Thanks brother
The funny thing is you thought Labour and the Greens were gonna help 🤣🤣🤣
Really?
@@GeoffReidNZ Over in the states they do similar things now with green promises by the blue side.. the red side is antigreen in ignorance...
Unless they can get brownie points or it does not cost more than it makes, they shy away because it draws away middleminded voters when a vote comes near...
politicians are after inside deals like our leaders having contracts with lithium company in korea, while being son for speaker of the house 🤐
This is very upsetting I wish people did more I'm out filming poisoning and traping all day and to think that just a change of diet can save kilometers of forest ❤
Yes, spot on !! The best change of diet is from Kohekohe, Totara and Rata to 1080 pellets !!! That really saves the forest !!
It's a national disgrace that our Department of Conservation has no sense of priority or commitment to protecting our rare and iconic Northland Kauri forests. Would Te Papa or the Auckland Art Gallery let rats run riot in national collections and do nothing for 10 years???? The Northland Regional Manager is out of her depth and needs to be replaced by someone worthy of the position, someone the public can trust to actually do the job of protecting the forest. DOC needs to be held accountable for the state of our forests with each being given an annual WOF by an independent group of ecologists and DOC judged on timely delivery of control.
It's not DOC in charge there so stop calling them out.
@@kiwiwriter You are totally misinformed on this point. The Waipoua Forest , like all DOC managed forests in Northland are owned by the people of New Zealand and DOC is legally responsible for their protection and management. There are special relationship/consultation agreements with several iwi in some of these forests, including Waipoua, but this is in place to foster co operation between iwi and the crown. It does not exist to stop basic conservation work or remove DOC's responsibility to deliver protection for NZ. But at Waipoua, the local iwi do understand the issues and sound conservation management and there is already support there for aerial 1080. Elders there have seen the benefits from previous operations and the cost of doing nothing.
There is NO excuse for DOC leaving the forest abandoned for 8 years and being 10 years overdue with serious iwi consultation and effective possum control. DOC needs to be called out because our forests need professional competent management and work done on time. The skeletons and dying trees in the forest are testament to DOC's failure to deliver on fundamental duty. DOC is absolutely responsible for the protection of our public conservation lands. They are the only government agency charged with this duty. The regional manager needs to do her job.
DOC needs to get that shit done
You are dead right Ruben!
There appears to be no comprehension of basic priorities or sense of national duty within our Conservation Department... systemic change needed from within sonthey deliver predator contorl and in time. Otherwise.. whats the point in haveing DOC?
@@GeoffReidNZ Kylie set you straight yesterday. Did you choose deliberately to ignore her and carry on some vendetta against DOC?
@@kiwiwriter Kylie is misinformed. Waipoua Forest is public land and its management is DOC's responsibility on behalf of the nation. The legal situation is clear and simple.
Well over 90% of Waipoua Forest is owned by the Crown and managed by DOC and the balance by local iwi or conservation trusts. Both the iwi and conservation trusts support the wise use of 1080 so currently DOC is the hold up. Dragging the chain and letting the ancient Totara and thousands of kohekohe suffer another winter of browse and trees being pushed into premature old age, never to recover, or dying is totally irresponsible. DOC should have been ready years ago and should work to timeframes that work for the forest and deliver on their national duty. The forest and NZ can't be let down by DOC any longer. What has happened to the forest through bureaucratic ineptitude borders on criminal negligence. It certainly is nothing like competence, nothing to be proud of. We need DOC managers who are proud of their responsibility and competent to deliver.
Our conservation department must be held accountable for letting this national treasure get into such a poor state from lack of management.
Know what you're talking about before spouting this garbage - 'must be held accountable'. DOC are not the caretakers of this forest.
@@kiwiwriter DOC are the primary caretakers of this forest. They have the legal responsibility of protecting Waipoua. Both iwi and community play a role, but it's DOC's responsibility to deliver on behalf of the nation.
Lack of Compassion Aroha and Respect 4 Forests like these is just as Destructive as having no Educational Understanding about the Entirety of caring and looking after them ✋🥺🤚
wouldnt 1080 affect the water?
After the drop there is less detected in the water than in a cup of tea
The biggest destroyer of NZ’s forests are the timber and agricultural industries, replacing diverse native forests for mono cropped pine trees, and clearing for farming practices like dairy grazing and maze crops to feed said animal agriculture. We can drop eco friendly possum rat and stote bait like 1080 but it’s not really the most effective in terms of what life remains, it could be the reason why life that is just holding on can tip over the edge and die. The only thing I personally can think of is if we humans get out there and clean it up, effective and efficient possum trapping and hunting. It’s a lot of mahi though.
You are right about historical destruction. However, the biggest destroyer of the forests that remain and are legally protected under DOC, is pests like deer, possums, goats, wallabies and stoats, rats. Our forests are being hollowed out and becoming empty supermarkets as deer and possums wreck the canopy, stop regeneration and systematically remove the most nutrient rich species in the forest. We need to strengthen DOC and make it ore accountable to provide a safer future for our forests and provide public confidence that DOC is able to deliver regular protection work on time. We need a major change.
All for saving the bush not 1080 other methods trapping currently looking after our whenua your right it’s not easy an there is not much help either fur recovery is good just need more kai mahi
Why not 1080?
Shit yeah man
Just devastating mate. Same thing happening here in Australia being caused by bulldozer and chainsaws. But we just got rid of our extreme right government and hoping for better environment conservation now. Keep fighting brother 👍
I think we have the man power i dont think we need synthetic poison
Same toxin occurs naturally in plants..
No we don't have the man power to achieve this other wise we wouldn't be talking here..
You are doing a good job and getting nowhere as you are ignoring who actually owns land. All your outrage means nothing when you address the wrong people, or the right people wrongly.
While I understand your frustration perfectly, it could be considerably less if you made allies of local Iwi.
We are NOT ignoring who owns the land. Take a look at the maps. Waipoua Forest is owned by the crown and managed by the Department of Conservation for the benefit of the people of New Zealand. Some parts of Waipoua are owned by the local iwi, Te Roroa and other parts are privately owned by conservation Trusts, but 90% of the forest is public land for which the Conservation Department is totally responsible. Our Department of Conservation is the front door for the people of NZ to take their concerns over the management of our national heritage on Conservation land.
When it comes to forest health... are the public not free to communicate publicly or to our department/the minister as Te Roroa management are?
Much of Waipoua is in co-management.. my aim is to hold DOC accountable. 11 overdue possum control!
Nothing can cover up the failure to protect the forest over the last decade. The state of the trees speak for themselves. The Regional manager needs to get over her embarrassment and realise that the forest does not exist just to prop up her job. Her job exists as a service to the forest and after years of inaction, it's time to deliver.
I have allies in Te Roroa who are equally concerned for the forest, thank you for your recommendation. I offered advocacy material to Te Roroa 'management' long before going public with the state of the forest. I was given the cold shoulder. Always willing to work together and the door is still open... if the cause is for a positive outcome for the forest of course.
Current thumb twiddling isn't helping the state of the forest. We need urgent action now.
Geoff Ngati Hine Taiao specialist is using Maori rongoa to save kauri die back. Poisons and chemical pesticides are killing all native forest so stop spreading the bullshit about possoms and the use of aerial 1080!
You are going to have to take a lot more effort to convince me. I have seen first hand the damage these hungry mammals are doing to our taiao. If you deny this is an issue you are completely out of touch with Te Whenua. Quit spreading lies about such pesticides killing forests. This is no the case. Do you enjoy having pest animals in our forests to hunt?