With 20,000 members, Federated Mountain Clubs, has a keen interest in the management of our conservation estate. Its president Peter Wilson offers a tramper’s perspective on tourism growth Throughout New Zealand’s short history, our wilderness and conservation estate has repelled many threats from commercial interests. Existential threats such as logging, damming for hydroelectricity, mining, and […]
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Tourism from a tramper’s perspective
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May 2017
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Alistair Hall
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