In an email to colleagues, Doc invertebrate ecologist Warren Chinn said, in his opinion, the Environment Protection Authority should look carefully at "the invertebrate issue". "There are several threatened moths and ... a rediscovered beetle and many other community-level matters of significance on the land," he wrote. The Doc invertebrate specialist did not attend that session." The proposed effects management package did not adequately address expected impacts, Doc said. "Given the scale of impacts, proposed effects management interventions are considered inadequate from a conservation perspective and unlikely to achieve the anticipated outcomes."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 08, 2026 15:34 UTC