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“If we can’t do that over the next 20 years, this [kind of protection] is going to be a waste of time.” The sea ice around Thwaites Glacier had been acting as a cork, stopping much larger volumes of land-based ice from sliding off into the sea. David Unwin/Stuff Beef, dairy and sheep farmers need to be encouraged to change their land use to help slash methane emissions, with reductions urgently needed to avoid irreversible tipping points, environmentalist says. If the glacier – which is melting at an alarming rate – collapsed, scientists fear it would cause up to 3m of sea level ...

“Within 12 years we’d pretty much achieved the main objectives, I think.” Forty-six years on, Salmon has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the environment. Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Salmon says one of his proudest achievements is “having encouraged the environment movement, and primary sector organisations into a collaborative governance approach to things”. Over the last half a century he has held various positions as a policy advisor to successive governments and the boards of Crown entities, and membership of the Advisory Group on Green Growt...