The Conservation Minister is removing a controversial clause in a proposed law that would allow more conservation land to be sold.Tama Potaka told the Environmental Defence Society conference the country's understanding of the Conservation Amendment Bill differed to his intention.He blamed himself for that, saying he wasn't clear enough when he was explaining how land would be protected.Potaka had previously described the bill as the biggest change to conservation management in decades, saying it removed red tape and modernised how public conservation was managed.One of the proposed changes - that is now being clawed back - would have allowed for the sale of an extra 2.8 million hectares of conservation land to be sold, on top of the 2.4 million hectares of stewardship land that was already eligible for sale.It expected to raise about $60 million annually which would be reinvested back into conservation and biodiversity work.Potaka said the bill did not include a plan to sell great swathes of conservation land, insisting it would only be "bits and bobs" - repeatedly pointing to examples like the MetService building in Wellington, and a gravel reserve surrounded by farmland on the West Coast.But conservation groups and opposition parties said he was missing the point, because the bill creates a legal framework that could allow big chunks to be sold.On Wednesday, Potaka accused Forest and Bird of frightening people by spreading "deceitful" messages.But he also told reporters he was prepared to make changes to the bill having listening "very carefully and cautiously" to the community reaction."Absolutely, that's what democracy is all about," he said."If you think Tama's omniscient and omnipotent, you're probably not on the right planet. You're probably on Planet Tama."The minister also told the EDS conference there was more work to be done on elements in the bill relating to an emphasis on economic development.The proposed law would require the Department of Conservation to put economic opportunities front and centre when it made decisions about its land.Greenpeace Aotearoa campaigner Gen Toop said Potaka's announcement did not go far enough, and called for the bill to be scrapped entirely."From start to finish this bill is rotten to its core. It must be thrown out immediately," she said."Even if National manages to convince its coalition partners to pull the land sales parts out - this bill would still make it easier for open cast mines, private resorts, gondolas, and shopping malls to degrade the wild places we all treasure."That was as bad as selling the land, Toop said.Nearly 50,000 had signed a Greenpeace petition calling for the bill to be abandoned, she said.Submissions on the bill close on 2 July.