2020 Intensive Winter Grazing Campaign.
Help us eliminate the pollution and animal welfare problems from poorly managed Intensive Winter Grazing! (IWG)
We would love your help to support this year's campaign to protect our rivers, lakes, groundwater and estuaries from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most destructive and cruel industrial agricultural practices. Click here to help.
Intensive Winter Grazing!
In 2019 we showed the public what was going on and got a powerful response from the industry, the government and the wider public which has resulted in a genuine effort from Southland to improve.
Together we have made industry and government completely review how winter grazing is done and begun the changes that we desperately need to solve these issues.
2020 Campaign Goals:
To be achieved by raising public awareness, proposing solutions which we know are workable, then asking concerned people to help us change how Central and Local governments deal with these very serious issues.
- Push for the introduction of an animal welfare system for production animals.
New Zealand has no animal welfare system for chronic problems such as lying in mud, lameness, broken tails, heat stress, starvation, for production animals on-farm. Hard to believe, but true.
- Push the Government to empower the Ministry for the Environment to be an effective and strong regulator.
Few people know that the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) has no ability to enforce national policies and rules for freshwater. MfE is effectively useless, and government policies and laws are no more than hot air until there is the power to compel Regional Councils to implement them. MfE must be given the power to firmly deliver the water policies that the NZ public have demanded.
- Otago Regional Council and Environment Canterbury must resolve pollution problems in their regions.
These councils appear to have made no attempt to resolve the pollution problems from industrial agriculture. The environmental and Animal welfare problems in these regions must be shown so that action can be taken. Otago effectively has no enforceable rules, and Canterbury has some rules but does not enforce them to protect freshwater. We must also ensure Environment Southland keeps their promises.
Your support would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Geoff Reid, Matt Coffey, & Angus Robson
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Below is some documentation from 2019 in Southland and Otago Region
Feed laid out on dryer ground next to an electric fence.
Run off pluming into the precious Waiau River, Te Anau.
A herd of mothers on maternity leave waiting for there next break of crop nowhere to rest but cold mud.
1500+ cow winter grazing site next to the Oreti River.
Same paddock as above months later. Oreti River flowing brown full of sediment, bacteria and other farm waste.
Click here to help demand change.