My initial reaction was that the businesses that destroyed the habitat should be paying for this — but it turns out that is the case. I'd say the headline's careless / provocative.
DOC spends hundreds of thousands to care for snails after mining destroys home | RNZ News:
Not all of the cost of the species' survival had been shouldered by DOC.
"The majority of the money to keep the captive population going came as part of the permitting permissions for Solid Energy when they were first set up," Aikman said.
"That was part of the agreement - if you remove the habitat, this is what we need to do."
And most of the revegetation work was being undertaken by Bathurst, which now ran the mine.