Blazes on Auckland Mountains
December 11, 2019
By NZB3
Cattle and sheep grazing on Auckland’s mountains have been a familiar sight for decades. For the sake of expanding the State’s hegemony, Mangere Mountain was stripped of ‘exotic’ trees and its cattle a few months ago. This was overseen by the new Boss, ‘Tūpuna Maunga Authority’.
Now all that built-up and summer-dried fodder has been the fuel for fire on the mountain! The fire risk was previously handled by feeding the fodder to cows. The Government always achieves the opposite to what they set out to do. Try to “conserve” the landscape, end up torching it.
“A huge fire on Māngere Mountain, in South Auckland, early this morning has been extinguished. The fire left much of the city shrouded in smoke.
“Up to 25 firefighters were at the scene of the large vegetation fire, which started just before 2am.”- Fire on Auckland’s Māngere Mountain extinguished; NZ Herald
After all, what would a organization trying to do things ‘the Maori’ way know about how grazing animals effect ecology anyway? And what would they know about managing grasslands?
Shouldn’t ‘Te Ao Maori’ be confined to an understanding of the Stone Age and not scale-upwards to the way New Zealand works now?
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Image ref. Jon Baulcomb; NZ Herald; ibid
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