Reinvigorating the vision: conservation boards’ role in 21st-century nature conservation

Authors

  • Christine Cheyne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v12i1.4579

Keywords:

stakeholder involvement, statutory framework for conservation, New Zealand Conservation Authority, Department of Conservation, National Parks Acts, Tukituki Catchment Proposal, Conservation Act, Māori, community and public interests

Abstract

Public and stakeholder involvement in nature conservation through conservation boards has been a distinctive feature of New Zealand’s statutory framework for conservation, put in place in 1987. Since their inception, effective boards established for the purpose of ensuring that conservation stakeholders’ voices inform conservation planning have been regarded, at least in official discourse, as a key mechanism for achieving conservation outcomes. They replaced the existing national parks boards and, like their parent body, the New Zealand Conservation Authority, were intended to focus on the entire conservation estate. 

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Published

2016-02-01