A sweeping audit has revealed our environment is under attack from virtually every direction – with climate change now also adding to the pressure.
The Government's Environment Aotearoa 2019 report gives a largely bleak stocktake of our natural heritage.
Problems range from polluted waterways in farming areas and our myriad under-threat species, to our dismally high per-capita emissions and the emerging hand of climate change.
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