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WCC 2016 Rec 102 - Activity Report

Submitted by Catherine.Wallace on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 04:04
Information générale
Les aires protégées et autres zones importantes pour la biodiversité dans le contexte d’activités industrielles et du développement d´infrastructures portant préjudice à l’environnement
Constituant de l’UICN: 
Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand
Type de Constituant de l’UICN: 
IUCN Member
Période d’activité: 
2019
Zone géographique: 
Océanie
Pays/Territoire: 
New Zealand
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
Quels autres Membres de l’UICN sont impliqués –ou ont été impliqués- dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution ?: 
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand / New Zealand
Department of Conservation / New Zealand
Le Secrétariat de l’UICN, est-il impliqué dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution ?: 
No
Veuillez indiquer quels autres acteurs (non-membres de l’UICN) sont impliqués dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
A variety of New Zealand environmental NGOs, scientists, community members. In opposition to the New Zealand Petroleum and Mining division and other sections of the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Implémentation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Education/Communication/SensibilisationECO has used not only formal mechanisms but also a variety of communication and awareness raising mechanisms to allow civil society and the public and scientific community to present the case for the achieving the operative paragraphs of WCC-2016-Rec-102-EN.On-going
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesECO, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Organisation of NZ, and numerous other groups have worked together to achieve a policy announced in late 2017 and reaffirmed in 2019 by the New Zealand government of "no new mines on Conservation land". This has yet to be implemented. There is a stalemate with the Minister of Conservation wanting the policy implemented, and the Minister of Energy and Resources and her industry lobbyists opposed. Instead they want to re-classify much of the conservation land out of that status, and to allow new industrial mining on conservation land and to allow mining where the permit holders already hold exploration permits or have an expectation of renewal of permits. We have pressed for the policy to be implemented, and we have submitted against the stalling of the policy implementation and its undermining with delays, suggestions that you can mining under but not on conservation land, and other devices. We have also filed objections to coal and other mining on conservation land. On infrastructure, we are contesting policy and draft law that would exempt national infrastructure projects from rules for water and aquatic ecosystem protections. We have also objected to proposals for industrial scale recreation and tourism facilities on protected areas. In the marine realm, we have few protected areas so we press instead for the creation of these and the exclusion of incompatible activities in areas of significant biodiversity. These include industrial fishing and seabed mining.On-going
Veuillez indiquer quels ont été les résultats obtenus dans le cadre des activités entreprises pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
The "no new mines on conservation land" policies have been announced but are not implemented because of pressure from some Ministers and some others in the NZ government to reclassify and re-gazette conservation land out of conservation status. Vocal mining and petroleum interests and a few localised communities with a history of mining and of resentment of the creation of protected areas are pressuring the government. Even though the New Zealand Prime Minister and the Conservation minister announced the policy it is being blocked. Some major damaging infrastructure projects, particularly for tourism, have been averted due to public pressure and due process, but others have proceeded, even in very sensitive ecological areas. Some areas of sensitive and important biodiversity, especially in the marine environment, have been consistently blocked by pressure from the fishing industry. Most egregious, is that a quid pro quo for a fake set of "Benthic Protected Areas", now mostly known as Bogus Protected Areas in New Zealand's EEZ, has continued to deny New Zealand MPAs in the EEZ. An agreement by a new fisheries minister and the NZ Fishing industry promised that there would be
Quelles mesures ont été prises afin de surmonter ces obstacles ?: 
Well heeled and influential extractive interests and the agencies of government who should regulate them, combining to block protection and to dismantle protections. Until recently the government was happy to pretend that the Bogus Protected Areas were genuine. This has changed. The Conservation Minister faces an uphill battle to prevail over vested interests.
Veuillez indiquer et décrire brièvement les activités planifiées par la suite pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
Activité FutureDescription
Rassembler des parties prenantes/R�seautageNetworking and convening environmental organisations is central to our DNA and we will continue to do this.
Education/Communication/SensibilisationPublic campaigning and educating officials and the public on the vital benefits of protected areas, of wilderness, of the benefits of a non-industrialised environment and of the alternatives to mining, industrial scale tourism and infrastructure.
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesWe will continue to press for a resource policy for resource substitution (eg planation timber not steel and concrete buildings); for reuse, recovery and recycling; for public and active transport rather than roads; and the need to shift to a low impact, biodiversity-friendly and sustainable life-styles. When formal methods fail, our members are likely to occupy and block sites that should be protected.