Map showing network of protected areas
Protected Areas Network – New Zealand (PAN-NZ) Database
The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy established a framework for action for the sustainable conservation and management of New Zealand’s biodiversity. Goal 3 of the Strategy aims to help halt the decline of indigenous biodiversity by maintaining and restoring a full range of remaining natural habitats and ecosystems to a healthy functioning state, enhancing critically scarce habitats, sustaining modified ecosystems in production and urban environments, and maintaining and restoring viable populations of all indigenous species and subspecies across their natural range and maintaining their genetic diversity.
Setting aside places where native ecosystems, habitats, and species can function and evolve with little interference or disturbance is a key mechanism for contributing to Goal 3 of the Biodiversity Strategy. Protected areas, usually legally protected areas such as parks or reserves, establish areas – either large or small – where native species and ecosystems remain dominant. Within New Zealand formally protected areas include the Crown Conservation Estate, regional parks, and a range of covenant schemes: Nga Whenua Rahui, Nature Heritage Fund, Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, or local council reserves via the Reserves Act).
TFBIS recently funded a Landcare Research project to progress the next stage of PAN-NZ development.
Visit the project web page for further information.
Presentations
Rutledge, D.; Briggs, C.; Price, R. 2007: Using Scenarios to Estimate the Condition and Trend of Coastal Environments. Feathers to Fur, NZES Annual Conference, University of Canterbury, 21 Nov 2007. 
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Rutledge, D.; Price, R.; Briggs, C.; Hoffmann, N.; Walker, S.; Stephens, S.; Johnston, K. 2007: Development & Application of the Protected Areas Network (PAN-NZ) Database. Feathers to Fur, NZES Annual Conference, University of Canterbury, 21 Nov 2007 (2.1Mb)
Contact:
 | Daniel Rutledge Email  |
Landcare Research | |
Phone: +64 7 859 3700 |