I may not be an ecologist, but that stat certainly set my ecology / environment alarm bells ringing. And if the response to a new report, Environment Aotearoa 2019, is anything to go by, it seems that I’m not alone in worrying about this paradox. Environment Aotearoa 2019 (EA2019) was released jointly by two government bodies – the Ministry for the Environment and StatsNZ – on 18th April 2019. It follows on from a previous report (published in 2015), and aims to paint a picture of the overall state of NZ’s environment. Disclaimer: Between December 2018 and March 2019, I was contracted by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) to support the writing and editing of EA2019.

Source: Forbes April 18, 2019 08:03 UTC