An environmental organisation is seeking support ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme.
Today environmental organisation Forest & Bird released a video showing "some of the public conservation land which will be destroyed if a land swap allowing New Zealand's largest irrigation dam goes ahead".
The land in question is 22ha of the Ruahine Forest Park, which has been subject to a legal battle over a proposed land swap.
In September the Court of Appeal upheld a Forest and Bird appeal which argued the land swap of the 22 hectares of the Ruahine Forest Park, for 170ha of land the Hawke's Bay Regional Investment Company (HBRIC) would potentially buy from Smedley Station, was unlawful.
This would have downgraded the protected conservation status of the Ruahine Forest land to allow it to be flooded as part of the water storage scheme.