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2.1 Protected Natural Areas
Authors: J D M Galilee, updated D Hunt 2004Publication: NZIF Forestry Handbook, Volume Section 2 – Indigenous forests, pp 1, Dec 2023
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: There have been major changes in the composition and administration of New Zealand’s protected natural areas (PNA) network since the restructuring of the Government’s environmental agencies in the mid-1980s. Among the outcomes of restructuring was the establishment in April 1987 of a single Governmentagency, which for the first time had a responsibility to undertake and foster conservation of New Zealand’s natural and historic resources. The Department of Conservation brought together the environmental functions and responsibilities of the former New Zealand Forest Service, Department of Lands and Survey, and New Zealand Wildlife Service.