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Whakapapa Village public parking areas and restrictions
Forgotten Lands forgotten no longer? Government speeds up stewardship land reclassification
Federated Mountain Clubs welcomes Acting Conservation Minister Ayesha Verrall’s 28 May 2021 announcement that the Government is accelerating the reclassification of stewardship land to […]
High Court judgment on the Paparoa National Park Management Plan
FMC welcomes the recent High Court judgment supporting FMC’s and Forest & Bird’s stance against the Department of Conservation’s and the New Zealand Conservation […]
Tenure review agreements expand conservation land in Mackenzie Basin
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has announced in a press release that around 18,000 hectares will be added to conservation land […]
The tale of Griffin Creek – a timeline
Background
Griffin Creek, in the 96,249 hectare Wanganui-Otira Catchments Conservation Area, flows into the Taramakau River near Highway 73 in Westland. A conservation and recreation gem […]
Why is DOC considering a quarry application in the South Westland World Heritage Area after promising UNESCO it would look after the land?
In early January 2021, Kokiri Lime Company Ltd (Kokiri) lodged an application for an access arrangement, to quarry rock for river engineering works in Westland. […]