Camping, climbing trees and marching to Parliament: spatial dimensions of environmental protest in New Zealand

Figures & data

Figure 1 Annual protest events by scale.

Table 1 Percentage of protest event by issue group and scale (1997–2013).

Issue	Local	National	International
Animal rights	52.9 (9)	41.2 (7)	5.9 (1)
Climate change	22.2 (6)	40.7 (11)	37.0 (10)
Development	91.2 (31)	8.8 (3)	0.0 (0)
GE	8.5 (5)	84.7 (50)	6.8 (4)
Mining/Oil/Gas	28.2 (22)	65.4 (51)	6.4 (5)
Pollution/Waste/Water	78.9 (45)	14.0 (8)	7.0 (4)
Forestry/Fishery/Conservation	55.3 (47)	28.2 (24)	16.5 (14)
Total	100 (165)	100 (154)	100 (38)

Actual number of events in brackets.

Figure 2 Forms of protest. The figure considers the combined actions at the local, national and international scales, as there was no significant difference between them.

Figure 3 GE protest events by scale.

Figure 4 Mineral exploration protest events by scale.

Table

Source	Start	End	Circulation (2012)*
The New Zealand Herald	Apr-94		162,181
The Evening Post†	Dec-95	Jul-02	n/a
The Dominion†	Dec-95	Jul-02	n/a
Waikato Times	Jul-96		34,843
Sunday Star Times	Jul-96		131,196
Taranaki Daily News	Jan-97		21,511
The Press	Jan-97		75,034
The Timaru Herald	Jan-97		13,147
Manawatu Standard	Feb-97		17,000
The Southland Times	Mar-97		26,765
NZPA‡	May-97	Aug-11	n/a
Nelson Mail	Jul-97		14,197
The Dominion-Post	Jul-02		79,438
Otago Daily Times	Aug-02		38,064
Marlborough Express	Jan-05		7969
Bay of Plenty Times	Jun-05		18,504
The Daily Post	Jun-05		9343
Hawke's Bay Today	Jun-05		23,161
The Northern Advocate	Jun-05		12,777

* http://newspaper.abc.org.nz/audit.html?org=npa&publicationid=%25&mode=embargo&npa_admin=1&publicationtype=19&memberid=%25&type=%25 (accessed 17 May 2013).

^† Replaced by Dominion-Post in 2002.

^‡ New Zealand Press Association, closed August 2011.

n/a, not applicable.