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Waitaki District Council's message on farm forest conversions 17 Feb, 2021 11:45 PM 2 minutes to read Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher. Photo / Supplied Otago Daily Times The Waitaki District Council has sent a clear message to the carbon forestry industry after hearing farmers concerns about large forestry conversions. At a council meeting on Tuesday, North Otago farmers Murray Simpson, Jane Smith and Paul Ruddenklau told councillors they feared the environmental impacts carbon forestry developments could have on their properties. Councillors then unanimously agreed to ask council staff to begin d...

Share Wole Soyinka, last week, wrote about mad cows and madder narratives. Where else do cows, what they eat, how they eat, and where they eat dominate discourses in the 21st century if not in a kingdom of fools? And, again, last week in Ibadan, Nigeria, rotten tomatoes and how they were disposed of claimed lives and properties in horrendous proportions. Things that rule Nigeria’s nights and our days are incredible. They occur daily, and they are many. They sound unbelievably dark – like the sad tales from D.O. Fagunwa’s Irinkerindo. Foolishness and idiocy are synonyms. Idiocy and madne...