EDS says High Country at risk as Government opens door to development and disposal

The Government has introduced a new law that could result in intensive development, and even sale, of South Island High Country.

The Environmental Defence Society says the Bill provides for disposal of High Country land when the public benefits of the disposal outweigh the negative effects on the land’s values.

They say there are some sensible constraints around that, but the Bill still provides for disposals even when the land has high landscape and indigenous biodiversity values.