DOC's selective consultation
Wendy Pond made this Official Information request to Department of Conservation
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From: Wendy Pond
Dear Department of Conservation,
Attention Director of Operations for Hauraki
"Consultation is the process of extending a genuine invitation to interested and affected parties to express their views, and provide a means of addressing their concerns.”
Q1. Given that DOC is subject to this definition of consultation when applying for permission to carry out aerial poisoning of forest ecosystems, please provide documentation of consultation with the Society during planning for wholesale poisoning of the Moehau and Papakai Public Conservation forests in 2013, 2017, and 2022, and note that notification is not consultation.
Q2. Given that the Society is well known to DOC managers — from our participation in Environment Court proceedings, our submissions on resource consents, our comprehensive publication on the Whangarahi catchment, our critical analysis of DOC's predator control policy, and our concern to live in a poison-free landscape -- as a materially interested and affected local group in the matter of protecting ecosystems, please explain (a.) why consultation in 2013, 2017, and 2021/22 was selective (some conservation groups were consulted when Manu Waiata Restoration & Protection Society was not) and (b.) why DOC officers did not provide a means of addressing our concerns, and note that DOC officers could not presume to know or address our concerns without consulting us.
Wendy Pond, Secretary
Manu Waiata Restoration & Protection Society
Coromandel
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