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The Community Wildlife Management Areas Consortium (CWMAC) is an umbrella organization for all other organizations in Tanzania. [3] As of 2016 there are 22 WMAs that have received "Authorized Association" (AA) status out of a total of 38 that have been established or gazetted.
Protected areas of New Zealand are areas that are in some way protected to preserve their environmental, scientific, scenic, historical, cultural or recreational value. There are about 10,000 protected areas, covering about a third of the country. The method and aims of protection vary according to the importance of the resource and whether it ...
A government purpose reserve is a type of New Zealand protected area. [1] ... Sawmill Wildlife Management Area; Serpentine Wildlife Management Reserve;
Kaweka Forest Park in New Zealand. Conservation park is a type of specially protected land status held by the Crown in New Zealand for conservation purposes. [1] The status is established under the Conservation Act 1987 and the parks are administered by the Department of Conservation (DoC).
New Zealand has thirteen national parks, forty four marine reserves and many other protected areas for the conservation of biodiversity.The introduction of many invasive species is threatening the indigenous biodiversity, since the geographical isolation of New Zealand led to the evolution of plants and animals that did not have traits to protect against predation.
This is about 30% of New Zealand's land area or about 8 million hectares of native forests, tussocklands, alpine areas, wetlands, dunelands, estuaries, lakes and islands, national forests, maritime parks, marine reserves, nearly 4000 reserves, river margins, some coastline, and many offshore islands.
The area centred on Waipoua Forest, north of Dargaville, has been proposed as a possible Kauri National Park. The area contains most of New Zealand's remaining kauri, including the largest known kauri, Tāne Mahuta. These stands of kauri are also valuable as havens for endangered species including the North Island brown kiwi. [11]
An important role in conservation advocacy in New Zealand is ensuring that these three separate considerations are maintained, rather than blurred. National Parks retain a separate Act of Parliament, which sets up a similar, but more stringent planning regime. The Conservation Act also sets out a number of Specially protected areas: [1]