An announcement by government yesterday, 25 January, that it would create a 10 acres Va’epopua National Park in a former Nuku’alofa rubbish dump is yet another controversial decision that government has made during the past weeks - the park excludes the 500-600 year old Va’epopua Sia Heulupe archaeological site, the objective of a conservationist petition last year.
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An important Tongan heritage site at Va'epopua is threatened by a swamp subdivision that government has announced yesterday will be distributed to people today.