Media Statement For immediate release Wednesday, 25 February, 2004
Baldock: No pleasing some folk
Green MP Sue Kedgley's objection to the tagging of the Hector's dolphin does not help with attempts to save the
endangered species, United Future environment and conservation spokesman Larry Baldock said today.
"This paranoia about tagging them is hard to comprehend," Mr Baldock said in Parliament today.
"Surely any discomfort and minimal risk to the dolphin is preferable to ending up in a can of tuna," he said.
"Perhaps Ms Kedgley simply has trouble keeping up with the developments of modern science and is unaware of ongoing
technological improvements that have made the electronic tags far safer than when they were first introduced.
"The Department of Conservation is having a bad day indeed when even its old allies, Forest and Bird and the Greens,
oppose its efforts to save an endangered species," he said.
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