“Show up. Be empowered on that day, and that is ahi.” – Zane Wedding (Ngāti Kurī, Ngāti Pikiao)
Blazing into 2022 we interviewed Zane Wedding, an award-winning arborist, who tells the story of a community “forged in fire” through a lengthy fight to save a precious grove of trees in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ, Aotearoa.
Slashes to the Resource Management Act 2010-2012 has led to numerous non-notifiable consents granted to developers across Aotearoa, NZ, taking away and trespassing communities from their natural green spaces.