Outdoor Recreation
1 November 2011
UnitedFuture believes that all New Zealanders have a birthright to enjoy our unique, diverse landscape. Our strong outdoor heritage is central to what it means to be a Kiwi.
Our key policies to achieve this are:
- Enshrining public access to all public resources, including game, waterways and coastline, in law.
- Establishing a robust National Environmental Standard for all freshwater waterways.
- Curtailing the application of 1080 poison and replacing it with new and more environmentally friendly forms of pest-control.
- Imposing a moratorium on new hydro and irrigation schemes for rivers without existing dams and still regarded to be ‘wild’.
- Prohibit heli-hunting, herding or hazing from helicopters except for legitimate animal management operations when numbers warrant it.
- Make sure the Game Animal Council Bill, currently before Parliament is passed, and the Game Animal Council is established as a statutory body.
- Work with the recreational fishing sector to establish a public consultation process regarding the future of inshore fisheries management. This will include whether a statutory management organisation 'run by fishers for fishers' should be established.