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Conservation Act 1987

Specially protected areas

23B: Wildlife management areas

You could also call this:

“Areas that protect New Zealand's native animals and their homes”

When you are in a wildlife management area, it must be managed in a way that protects the animals and their homes. This means protecting the places where animals live and move, as well as the plants and animals that are native to New Zealand. You must also protect the special natural and historic things in these areas.

When people talk about wildlife in these areas, they mean any animals that are native to New Zealand. This is an important part of taking care of these special places, as explained in the Conservation Act 1987 and the Conservation Amendment Act 1996. You can find more information about these laws on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 4 Specially protected areas

23BWildlife management areas

  1. Every wildlife management area shall be so managed—

  2. that its wildlife and wildlife habitat values (including the capacity for the movement of wildlife, genetic material of indigenous plants, and genetic material of wildlife) are protected; and
    1. that its indigenous natural resources and its historic resources are protected.

      1. For the purposes of this section, the term wildlife means any native animal.

      Notes
      • Section 23B: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Conservation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 1).