Save the Westland Petrel - stop the Barrytown mine

The Coast Road Resilience Group (CRRG) needs your help in the fight to save this local bird hero, the environment and the community, after consents were granted for mineral sands mining and processing on the Barrytown Flats.

The Barrytown Flats area provides the only nesting site in the world for the unique and precious Westland petrel (tāiko). The Little Blue Penguin (kororā) and a wealth of shore birds could also be endangered by this major industrial operation in a sensitive coastal environment.

State Highway 6 is a cherished coastal drive. Proposed mining threatens the wellbeing of residents and the area's appeal to 500,000 annual visitors, who come for its natural beauty and peaceful environment. Many who live here depend on nature tourism, now jeopardised by industrial activities and our scenic highway becoming a mine haulage route.

The CRRG does not give any social licence or credence to TiGa's claims around economic returns to the Coast, or how they will manage the vast array of consent conditions, which still fall short of adequately protecting local humans, flora and fauna.

This is the wrong place for such a mine.

The CRRG - a group of concerned locals - has appealed to the Environment Court and must engage experts to provide crucial evidence. Your support is essential. Future generations will question what we did while the planet was plundered and our bird populations faced extinction.

Every dollar helps — thank you!

For more info: email coastroadrg@gmail.com.