This report<\/a> should be a serious wake-up call,” says Greenpeace sustainable agriculture campaigner, Gen Toop.<\/p>\n“There are too many cows. We urgently need to diversify and transition away from intensive dairying.”The report found that the “intensification of farming is increasing pressure on the environment”.<\/p>\n
It states: “Farming is considered to be intensifying when the amount of agricultural inputs going into the farm are increasing per hectare of land. Inputs include water, feed, agri-chemicals, and livestock numbers.”<\/p>\n
The report also found that NZ is losing 192 million tonnes of soil a year into our waterways and into the ocean. 44% of this, 84 million tonnes, is coming from pastoral farming.<\/p>\n
“Healthy soil is the key to healthy rivers, healthy people and a healthy planet” says Toop.”The industrial way are farming is literally squandering soil, which we ultimately depend on to grow food and sustain life”<\/p>\n
Other key finding include: 83% of our indigenous land vertebrates are threatened with extinction and rare wetlands and other rare indigenous ecosystems continue to be destroyed.<\/p>\n
“NZ is in a worsening freshwater crisis, our soils are degrading, our emissions increasing and we are continuing to lose our precious wetlands, native forests and tussock lands. 8 out of ten of our indigenous land vertebrates are now threatened with extinction.”<\/p>\n
“This Government must take urgent action to curb cow numbers and shift New Zealand agriculture away from destructive industrial practices and towards regenerative farming.”<\/p>\n
“Regenerative farming is the future for farming in NZ and it is already being practiced by innovative farmers around the country.”<\/p>\n
Just recently Patagonia released an international regenerative organic certification, although this has yet to be adopted in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
“Regenerative farming is a way of farming that treats a farm like a healthy ecosystem rather than a factory. It does away with environmentally damaging inputs and has been shown to be able to rebuild healthy soil, reduce pollution, sequester the carbon that causes climate change and protect biodiversity.”<\/p>\n
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