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National Parks Act 1980

National parks - Principles to be applied in national parks

5: Indigenous plants and animals to be preserved

You could also call this:

"Protect native plants and animals in national parks"

You need to get written permission from the Minister before you can cut, destroy, or take any plant that naturally grows in New Zealand and is found in a national park. You also can't tell someone else to do these things.

You need the same kind of permission from the Minister before you can bother, trap, take, hunt, or kill any animal that naturally lives in New Zealand and is found in a national park. Again, you can't tell someone else to do these things either.

The Minister can only give permission for these actions if they fit with the plan for managing the park.

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Part 1National parks
Principles to be applied in national parks

5Indigenous plants and animals to be preserved

  1. No person shall, without the prior written consent of the Minister, cut, destroy, or take, or purport to authorise any person to cut, destroy, or take, any plant or part of a plant that is indigenous to New Zealand and growing in a national park.

  2. No person shall, without the prior written consent of the Minister, disturb, trap, take, hunt, or kill, or purport to authorise any person to disturb, trap, take, hunt, or kill any animal that is indigenous to New Zealand and found within a national park.

  3. The Minister shall not give his consent under subsection (1) or subsection (2) unless the act consented to is consistent with the management plan for the park.