Is Banning Mining the Best thing for Conservation Land?

Mining on conservation land may not sound like a great idea - but is simply banning mining on all conservation land the right way to go?

If you want to know a bit more, or check some of the claims made in this video, check the link below:

[dasgunt]

I wonder if it’s possible to mine and conserve?! I realise it’s not straight forward, but if it was easy, there wouldn’t be a problem…

[ppoad]

Coming from one of the countries with many of he biggest mining operations of world and working in there, definitely I’m glad that is ban in NZ!

[whaleudder]

Some good arguments. Not sure if I’m convinced but i think this should be part of a wider conversation. The issue I see is that a lot of peoples reactions are more emotional than rational. I would like to see more funding for pest control, however I think what is also important is agreements of how the land should be left and what standard the immediate environment surrounding the mine should be maintained at. Mines are ugly, can we make them less ugly, leave something other than a wasteland around the area and also increase pest control? Maybe with all of this together then a serious conversation can take place.

[sixthsenseamelia]

What? Mining conservation land? This is total bull$hat (Bathurst - AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY)

[gandalfandferg]

Yeah nah. There's good reason to ban mining. We don't need more endless growth at the cost of species and habitat. You lot showed the damage you could do after destroying the entire habitat of a species of giant land snails. The point of conservation land is to conserve life, not for you to profit.

[bennichols]

If you want minors to help with pests give them their guns back.