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The Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park is a provincial park in south-central Ontario, Canada, between Gravenhurst and Minden.The park, named for Elizabeth II, who at the time was Queen of Canada, is 33,505 hectares in size, making it the second largest park south of Algonquin Park (after Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park), but it has a fragmented shape as a result of many private ...
The national parks of New Zealand are protected natural areas administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC). The first national parks established in the country were all focused on mountain scenery. Since the 1980s the focus has been on developing a more diverse representation of New Zealand landscapes. [1]
List of parks in the Canterbury Region; List of parks in the Chatham Islands; List of parks in the Marlborough Region; List of parks in Nelson, New Zealand; List of parks in the Otago Region; List of parks in the Southland Region; List of parks in the Tasman Region; List of parks in the West Coast Region
Mount Richmond Forest Park is a forest park in New Zealand, administered by the Department of Conservation. [1] Established in 1977, the forest park is located between Nelson and Marlborough and consists of 1,659 km 2 (641 sq mi) of conservation estate. [2] [3] Around 80% of the area is covered in bush. The most notable peak in the forest park ...
Nearly 30 percent of New Zealand's land mass is publicly owned with some degree of protection. Most of this land – about 80,000 square kilometres (31,000 sq mi) – is administered by the Department of Conservation. There are 13 national parks, [2] [3] thousands of reserves, [4] 54 conservation parks, [5] and a range of other conservation ...
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Forest parks have a less stringent level of protection than national parks and are used for a wide variety of recreational and commercial activities. [3] Some forest parks have recently been renamed conservation parks, for instance, the former 'Whirinaki Forest Park' which became the Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park in 2010.