epartment of Conservation is axing the jobs of 56 people
scientists and technicians - after the agency overspent its budget by $8 million.
While government departments needed to stay within budgets, any job losses in conservation were of concern "because DOC is already under-funded to carry out its core conservation work", he said.
uch of the $8 million "overspend" was the cost of fighting an unusually high number of fires due to drought conditions in conservation areas, which DOC staff had to put out.
DOC should receive contingency funding for fighting fires
past 20 years the amount of land managed by DOC had doubled, but staffing levels had not increased.
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