Covid budget big on conservation

June 2020

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The Covid budget will inject more than $1 billion into conservation projects. Photo: Matthew Cattin
Conservation has been a big winner of the government’s Covid-recovery budget – the largest spending package in New Zealand history. The $50 billion relief budget has allocated almost $1.1b to environmental projects, and it’s claimed it will result in 11,000 new environmental jobs.  The spending includes $433m injected into a new regional environmental projects programme, […]

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