This bill fails to recognise the history of forest clearance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Forest once covered 85 percent of our country, some 23 million hectares, and yet in 25 to 30 generations, we have reduced the extent of that forest cover to around 20 percent of our land area. We've converted it to pasture. We need to protect what remains. We need to protect these magnificent forests on conservation lands and the homes that they provide for our distinctive indigenous plants and wildlife, yet this bill goes back to the 19th century with its desire to see logging on conservation land, authorised by the Director-General of Conservation, which would see the Department of Conservation collect fees for that logging. 