New Zealand Proposes to Expand Mining Access to Publicly Owned Protected Areas

摘要

The New Zealand government March 22 laid out plans to make it easier to prospect for and to mine minerals on publicly owned conservation land.rnMuch of the country's mineral potential is concentrated in public conservation areas that so far have been off-limits to most commercial activities.rnThe government first announced plans to open up the country's conservation estate, or Crown land managed by the Department of Conservation, in August 2009 (32 INER 799, 9/2/09).