Environment Canterbury asked to take urgent action to protec

But she said submissions to Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) short and long term plans for more funding or district plan changes to protect their homes had fallen on “deaf ears”, so she had taken the next step.
Robinson’s Resource Management Act lawyer penned a letter of legal opinion to ECan, requesting it take urgent steps to protect the dolphins or face further legal action.
Genevieve Robinson/Supplied
There are an estimated 15,000 Hector's dolphins left nationwide.
The letter stated that under the New Zealand coastal policy statement, ECan had a legal obligation to “protect indigenous biological diversity in the coastal environment”.

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