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RMA changes to protect significant natural areas - Minister
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Councils will have to work more closely with tangata whenua, landowners and communities to protect native plants and animals on private and public land under a new government proposal.
The proposal makes changes to the Resource Management Act and means every council would have to have a strategy to identify and protect indigenous biodiversity.
It's the the third attempt in 20 years to set such rules.
Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage, speaks to Susie Ferguson.