![]() Take the forest cover away, strip Papatuanuku, strip her korowai off her, lay her bare, and wham, that’s when it all started moving. Our people went from forest people to farm people in a generation. “They cleared 80 percent of the virgin forest. “We did not cause this, but we’re the ones who are suffering for it. “As the land is being stripped and eroding, so are we as a people, and we’re fighting to survive,” she said. In Tairāwhiti they’re vital for survival.”įarming had to be done differently, with greater care taken with the way land is used, and emissions have to come down, Warmenhoven said. Both mitigation and adaptation to climate change are not just nice ideas. “With the increased destruction of transport routes and disrupted access to the outside world, also comes a realisation that transformation to a different way of working with the land is vital. “The two recent cyclones Gabrielle, and Hale before it, have had a profound effect on this already isolated region. “Repeatedly cut off from the outside world, without power and electricity, and running out of food, medical supplies and other essentials, Tairāwhiti is facing the brunt of the climate crisis in Aotearoa. Over 130 years of damage by pastoral farming and, more recently, pine plantations have left vivid scars on the area,” a Greenpeace statement said. “It’s a moving story of floods and slips taking away homes and livelihoods, of vital communication lines and transport routes cut, and of the harm that forestry slash and farming continue to do. ![]()
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