Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki are looking forward to working with the Department of Conservation, who have decided that an application by Fullers Group Limited to operate guided tours in the Hauraki Gulf should have been declined.

The chair of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki says the Department of Conservation’s admission it was wrong to offer ferry company Fullers a concession to run guided tours on Rangitoto and Motutapu islands has set a platform for better cooperation between the iwi and DOC.

The Department of Conservation has admitted it was wrong to grant a tourism company permission to operate tours on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf islands without mana whenua consultation.

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