Crown reaches $170M settlement with Ngai Tuhoe, reaches compromise on Urewera park

Crown reaches $170M settlement with Ngai Tuhoe, reaches compromise on Urewera park
Sept. 11 (BusinessDesk) - Ngai Tuhoe negotiators have agreed to settle the tribe’s historic grievances with the Crown in a $170 million deal that includes shared management of Te Urewera National Park. The deal is among the biggest to date, and includes Tuhoe's share of the $400 million Central North Island forestry settlement, known as Treelord, where the East Cape iwi received some $67.3 million and a quarter of the 176,000 hectares of land. The settlement also includes the implementation of the social services management plan where govern...