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Tama Potaka: Conservation Minister on the conservation law reform, plans to charge overseas visitors for access to certain sites
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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The Conservation Minister says there's huge opportunity for conservation land to generate the country more money.
A bill's been lodged, promising major reforms aimed at speeding up the DOC sign-off process for concessions on conservation land.
It would also see overseas visitors charged to visit certain sites – estimated to raise around $60 million a year to go to conservation.
Tama Potaka told Mike Hosking he's confident visitors are prepared to pay.
He says they've just started charging for a few carparks and made about $1.5 million for DOC.
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