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The New Zealand
Department of conservation
FACTS AND
TERRITORIAL ORGANISATION

The department manages approximately a third of mainland New Zealand (about 7 million hectares or over 17 million acres), including:

  • the 13 national parks
  • the 20 forest parks
  • the reserves (about 3500)
  • 61.760 hectares (152.609 acres) of private land protected in covenants
  • the offshore islands of groups of islands
  • the marine reserves (about 1.093.788 hectares or 2.702.750 acres)
  • the track, huts and structures on that land
  • the 40 visitor centres
  • the department is responsible for over 500 actively managed historic reserves

 

  • The department has about 1400 permanent staff and up to 450 temporary and seasonal staff. It has 14 regional conservancies and 79 field centres and bases.

Conservancies:

  • Northland
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
  • Bay of Plenty
  • East Coast/Hawkes Bay
  • Tongariro/Taupo
  • Wanganui
  • Wellington
  • Nelson/Marlborough
  • Canterbury
  • West Coast
  • Otago
  • Southland

Refer to the Department of conservation's web site for further information about:


Reference material:

GREENPRINT - Conservation in New Zealand - a guide to the department. Department of Conservation. Volume 2, October 1996.

RESTORING THE DAWN CHORUS, Department of Conservation Strategic Business Plan, 1998-2002. Department of conservation, 1998.

 
 
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