Nation-building or nature-destroying? Why it's time NZ faced up to the environmental damage of its colonial past

Nineteenth-century European settlement is often depicted as a triumphal ‘taming of nature’. But does that collective memory impede more honest appraisals of the environmental risks we face today?

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