Protect Pūtiki Hīkoi to Parliament!

We, Protect Pūtiki are at Pūtiki Bay (Kennedy Point), Waiheke Island. We have been here for 85+ days.

We are raising funds to organise our hīkoi to parliament and present our petition to Minister for the Environment, David Parker.

Two weeks ago on Wednesday the 19th, we started a petition on ActionStation with the goal of reaching at least 10,000 signatures. We have soared to 7,000 in under two weeks and are growing fast. We know we have to act urgently, because our moana is undergoing construction and occupation by the ‘developers’ every day.

We are calling for Minister for the Environment, David Parker and Auckland Council to urgently address a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi regarding a resource consent granted by Auckland council in March 2017. We are asking the Minister for the Environment and Auckland Council to call the resource consent into question for the proposed marina at Kennedy Point so that we can have a voice in the consideration of the resource consent directly relevant to our ancestral moana, Tikapa (Hauraki Gulf).

This fundraising is for a hīkoi condemning colonisation spreading further onto the moana. A hīkoi to protect all of our ancestral connections, our whakapapa - the environments that we are a part of. This is a hīkoi of kotahitanga, coming together and ACTIVELY protecting natural landscapes, wāhi tapu. These are stories we can all tell.