When you are managing wildlife in New Zealand, you need to have a plan called a conservation management strategy. This plan sets goals for how to manage wildlife, including specific species and special areas like wildlife sanctuaries, refuges, and reserves. You will use this plan to decide how to take care of these areas and the animals that live there.

You cannot start any new work in a wildlife sanctuary, refuge, or reserve until you have a approved conservation management strategy or plan for that area. However, you can still do the everyday work that is necessary to manage these areas.

If you want to know more about how these plans were created, you can look at the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990, which is the law that helped establish these rules.