Selwyn Times: December 01, 2021
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Wednesday <strong>December</strong> 1 <strong>2021</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> 33<br />
SELWYN RURAL LIFE<br />
Stewardship land<br />
review raises hopes<br />
Federated Farmers hopes it will become<br />
easier for landowners adjoining the<br />
Department of Conservation (DoC)<br />
estate to make boundary adjustments for<br />
better biodiversity and more economic<br />
land use.<br />
Federated Farmers environment<br />
spokesperson Chris Allen understands<br />
the goal of a DoC review of stewardship<br />
land management is to speed up and<br />
simplify the reclassification process so land<br />
with conservation value is identified and<br />
managed appropriately, while land with<br />
very low or no conservation value can be<br />
made available for other uses.<br />
He hopes the review will result in better<br />
protection of land with high conservation<br />
value, more secure public access to the<br />
outdoors and “greater economic outcomes<br />
for the nation”.<br />
DoC is seeking public feedback as it<br />
considers changes to the legislation. It<br />
wants feedback on a number of existing<br />
processes, including removing the<br />
statutory step to declare all stewardship<br />
land to be held for conservation purposes<br />
before it can be reclassified or disposed of;<br />
enabling the Minister of Conservation to<br />
direct the proceeds of sale of stewardship<br />
land to DOC and clarifying the status of<br />
concessions on reclassified stewardship<br />
land.<br />
The department also wants views on<br />
enabling the national panels to carry out<br />
the public notification and submission<br />
process and clarifying responsibilities for<br />
making recommendations to reclassify<br />
stewardship land to national park.<br />
Federated Farmers’ High Country<br />
Committee has been pressing for changes<br />
to the management of stewardship land for<br />
many years.<br />
Building on this, in August 2020<br />
Federated Farmers asked the Minister<br />
of Conservation to consider a concerted<br />
effort to identify land administered by<br />
DoC that was better suited to private<br />
ownership.<br />
A Federated Farmers paper to the<br />
Minister in 2020 says:<br />
“Some current New Zealand land<br />
ownership arrangements are more an<br />
accident of history than a logical response<br />
based on its best use. A relocation of land<br />
use involving arrange of instruments<br />
including commercial leases, binding<br />
covenants and changes to core ownership<br />
provides an opportunity to achieve both<br />
improved conservation/indigenous<br />
biodiversity outcomes and economic<br />
outcomes…<br />
“It is agreed that some private land<br />
has significant conservation value and<br />
outright purchase of parts of the land, or<br />
purchase of an “interest” in parts of the<br />
land, is considered by landowners as a<br />
more appropriate and equitable process<br />
than through legislatives mechanisms<br />
such as declaration of Significant Natural<br />
Areas, which potentially renders the land<br />
incapable of reasonable productive use.”<br />
High Country Committee Chair<br />
Rob Stokes said he most wanted to see<br />
better conservation outcomes and more<br />
employment through on the ground<br />
work such as new fences for boundary<br />
adjustments and indigenous plantings.<br />
There would also less need for weed<br />
and pest control on low conservation<br />
value land held by the Crown, which<br />
would instead be managed by private land<br />
owners. Even light grazing can reduce<br />
control expenditure on plant pests such as<br />
wilding pines, Stokes said.<br />
Visit the stewardship land reclassification<br />
consultation page for more information<br />
on the discussion document. Submissions<br />
close Friday 18 March 2022.<br />
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