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Article: Greenpeace's dairy farming protest gets the chop.
- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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More than 1000 trees planted by Greenpeace in a protest against dairy conversions in a central North Island block of private land have been pulled out.
The 30 Greenpeace volunteers early yesterday morning starting to "reforest" about 1600sq m of land cleared for dairy farming and leased by the state-owned enterprise Landcorp.
Greenpeace climate campaigner Simon Boxer said the replanting campaign was aimed at drawing more attention to the large amounts of forestry land in the Tahorakuri Forest, northeast of Taupo, being converted to dairy farming.
Bunny McDiarmid, executive director of Greenpeace, said dairy conversion was at an all time high ...