Manawatu Exhibition: Environment

Our priceless natural heritage

By the late 1960s, there was growing awareness that human activity was inflicting significant damage on the natural environment, and the pace was accelerating in the name of ‘progress’. Prevailing beliefs – that nature was a resource to be exploited for human development, rivers should be dammed to generate electricity and native bush should be felled for timber or cleared to enable mining or pastoral farming – began to be questioned.  

 

Manawatu Photographs