Push for 52,000 signatures on NZ horse-access petition

Organisers of a petition seeking greater recognition of horses equally a means of carry inward New Zealand accept a newspaper chase on their hands, only they are determined to press on toward their target of 52,000 signatures.

Unlike countries such equally United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with the United States, which accept formal structures inward house for online petitions to lawmakers, the organisers require to choke supporters to position pen to newspaper inward back upwardly of the cause.

They accept 8000 signatures to appointment for the petition, which volition eventually live on presented to parliament past times the National MP for Rangitiikei, Ian McKelvie.

The petition, started past times January Mossman inward May, has the backing of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand.

It calls on MPs to recognise horses equally an option means of travel, together with compels the New Zealand Transport Agency to include ridden together with driven horses inward their planning together with facilitation process. It wants the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand to live on included inward all discussions regarding walking, cycling together with combined-access recreational trails.

Mossman said the petitition was sparked because horses were instantly beingness excluded from some recreational trails, fifty-fifty roads that were 1 time purpose-built for horse-drawn vehicles together with the ridden horse.

She offered several recent examples:

• The 160km Motu Trails Cycle means on Old Motu Coach Road, opened on May twenty this year
• The 10km Ohakune Coach Road, opened inward 2010.
• The 100km Waikato River Trails, opened belatedly inward 2009.
• The 110km Queenstown Trail, which used $5.4 meg of populace funding. It was opened lately past times Prime Minister John Key.

“It is good overdue for us to grapple for inclusion inward planning to a greater extent than or less recreational facilities,” Mossman said.

“Riders operate the gauntlet betwixt the faster traffic together with diminishing verges.

“Legislation does non recognise ridden together with driven horses equally an option means of carry to cars, walkers together with cyclists.”

Getting the tidings out is crucial for petition organisers, equally New Zealand lacks whatever umbrella grouping for all facets of the Equus caballus industry.

Copies of the petition tin flame live on downloaded from www.nzsporthorse.org

 

The petition’s Facebook page is here.

 

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