Environmental advocate lays down challenge to councils over flood mitigation
Nature-based solutions - the words flash up in bold on a Gisborne District Council screen.
It is late March, and Forest & Bird freshwater advocate Tom Kay is presenting to 13 councillors, the mayor, a selection of council managers, and a handful of onlookers about the importance of rethinking natural disaster mitigation.
Kay wasted no time, and pulled no punches.
The message was sobering - more frequent and intense rainfall should be expected across the country due to climate change, more communities will be caught in harm's way and more lives will be lost.
Then he delivered the knockout blow.
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