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# Luddites of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/fac/
- Published: 2025-07-10T18:30:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-10T18:30:04.000Z
- Description: The Green Party believes that funding would be better off going towards “ensuring the survival of our present-day taonga species”.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> The Greens have reacted to plans to bring the South Island giant moa back from the dead, saying that the money would be better spent trying to save endangered species.  
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> It was [revealed today](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/south-island-giant-moa-de-extinction-plans-sir-peter-jackson-teams-up-with-colossal-biosciences/5M5QPE2VWVBYRAXPWH6OWOO4DY/?ref=goodoil.news) that United States-based Colossal Biosciences, which is also behind de-extinction projects for the woolly mammoth and dodo, is already working on the return of the moa, which died out six centuries ago.  
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> Kiwi film director Sir Peter Jackson is backing the move, along with the principal southern iwi, Ngāi Tahu.  
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> However, the Green Party believes that funding would be better off going towards “ensuring the survival of our present-day taonga species”.  
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> Green Party co-leader and conservation spokesperson, Marama Davidson said there are currently more than 4000 native species at risk of extinction.  
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> “This Government is pushing our taonga species over the edge with legislation that enables killing of native animals, more mining, thoughtless fast-track projects, and significant underfunding of the Department of Conservation.  
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> “New Zealand sea lions were officially declared endangered just a few months ago,” she said.  
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> “There is huge value in innovative, blue-skies research happening in Aotearoa.  
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> “Our science system should be led for the public good, not left to be decided by the interests of those with money.  
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> “Bringing moa back would be nice, but at a time when we are battling to keep thousands of other taonga species alive, it hardly seems a priority.”  
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> NZ Herald

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