Rotorua residents want council to build natural burial site

A group of Rotorua residents wants the council to create a natural burial site, so people can be interred simply without coffins or embalming, decomposing naturally under a tree. Other regions including Whakatane and Taupo already have designated natural burial sites. Te Atawhai Aroha Trust has presented an almost 400 signature petition to the Rotorua Lakes Council designate land for a public natural burial site, Richard Bird speaks to Lisa Owen