Wine companies and Marlborough iwi Rangitane partner to protect waahi tapu sites

Protecting historically important sites does not need to come at the expense of commercial development, members of a Marlborough iwi say. Last week two Rangitane o Wairau members, wine company owner Haysley MacDonald and his father Phillip MacDonald, reached an out-of-court settlement with Heritage New Zealand after facing charges for clearing scrub and constructing a fence near a historic pa site without permission.