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I/V w/ Tree Council Chair Sean Freeman: November 13, 2019

I/V w/ Tree Council Chair Sean Freeman: November 13, 2019

I/V w/ Tree Council Chair Sean Freeman: November 13, 2019 I/V w/ Tree Council Chair Sean Freeman: November 13, 2019, 6.6 MB
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Tree Council is a community based organisation that has been advocating for the values and protection of trees for more than thirty years. They announced this week their full support for the Tupuna Maunga Authority’s restoration plan for Owairaka maunga following protests against the removal of 345 exotic trees on the mountain. Lillian Hanly spoke with Chair of the Tree Council Sean Freeman who explained the restoration plan, saying it is part of the integrated management plan that applies to all the maunga of Tāmaki Makaurau. Part of that plan is to remove the exotic vegetation and reestablish native ecology as a way of bringing back native fauna to those maunga, and restore, repair and reinstate the relationship between mana whenua and these sacred areas. Lillian then started by asking what the Tree Council’s response was to the protests.