Trees remain unprotected after Government rejects plea from Auckland

I am very disappointed to see that the Government has blocked the long awaited and urgently needed tree protections for Auckland.

174 new individual trees and 29 new groups of trees were due to be added to the list of protected trees. But the Government has put a halt to all plan changes, rejecting Auckland Council's request to continue with this important work. Massive amounts of staff as well as volunteer and other public time has been out into getting to this point, all wasted. Ironic given all the talk about reducing waste.

Many of these trees have been waiting since 2012 when the Government removed blanket protection. Now they're all at risk again without any protection.

Some.of these are local and I hope we don't loose them before action can be taken.