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July 10, 2016 03:52 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eDZ6M7KOOqw/new-zealanders-raise-millions.html
New Zealanders raise millions to buy beach and donate it to the public
Awaroa beach -- which was open to all -- in New Zealand's Abel Tasman National Park was privately held by Michael Spackman (a businessman embroiled in complex financial shenanigans) who had decided to sell it; two New Zealanders, fearing that the new owners would use it as a private beach, started a crowdfunding campaign that raised about NZ$2.3m from some 40,000 people to buy it and donate it to the country's national parks system. (more…)
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