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Strong message from sand defenders u by Andy Bryenton
Eighteen months on from its first awareness-raising line in the sand protest, the Save Our Sands group in Mangawhai has gathered an even bigger crowd of supporters for a major protest.
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p Mayor Jason Smith addressed a receptive and numerous crowd, which had gathered to oppose sand mining resource consents being handed down by Auckland Council
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At 10am last Sunday, families, individuals and their dogs met at Mangawhai Heads beach, forming a gigantic SOS symbol on the sand. They voiced their determination to oppose resource consents for further extensive sand mining from the seabed and foreshore of the east coast, Mangawhai to Pākiri. “Thirty-one years ago, during the big dig, Mangawhai found its pride,” said event organiser Ken Rayward. “What people did then, they did for future generations. What we are doing here today is also for future generations.” As well as Ken, other speakers addressing the crowd included representatives of Friends of Pākiri and Greenpeace Aotearoa, alongside
Kaipara mayor Jason Smith and television personality and actor Jacqui Brown. Mayor Smith highlighted the importance of curbing erosion along the east coast and preserving the habitat of the fairy tern, the rarest bird in New Zealand. He drew attention to the fact that the Kaipara District Council would make a formal submission against granting the two remaining resource consents sought by McCallum Brothers to mine sand from the embayment. “In a climate change future, if the distal spit protecting the harbour disappears, then that ocean will be in Mangawhai. That is hugely problematic,” said the mayor. He has worked with the council during the past term to formalise climate change response strategies across the district.
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One resource consent has been denied already, with two more to be heard in the coming weeks by an Auckland Council committee. The current situation sees sand mining operators utilising an Auckland-based resource consent, as the border with the super city lies just two kilometres from the site of Sunday’s protest. However, the environmental impact of extensive sand mining is felt along the entire east coast embayment, with visible erosion behind protestors at the heads on Sunday. Ken Rayward, Mayor Smith and supporters of an end to sand mining there say that ‘people power’ and a wider awareness of the ecological issues caused by extensive sand mining are key to a more ecologically sustainable future for the eastern shore. ¢
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