Stewart Island/Rakiura conservation management planning
Updates on the Rakiura Planning process
Hearings
Submissions
Background
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Updates on the Rakiura Planning process
May 2010
The revised Draft Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and Draft Rakiura National Park Management Plan were presented to the New Zealand Conservation Authority (NZCA) on 14 April 2010.
Please note that these documents are still in draft form and are subject to change as a result of the NZCA's consideration process.
If you would like to receive a electronic (CD) copy of the revised draft planning documents or if you have any questions regarding the Rakiura Planning process please contact Rebecca Heenan on +64 3 211 2400.
February 2010
In February 2010, the Southland Conservation Board considered the Draft Stewart Island / Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and Draft Rakiura National Park Management Plan and subject to agreed amendments recommended to send the draft documents to the New Zealand Conservation Authority for approval. A summary of the changes made to the documents has now been completed.
View the summary of submissions and changes made, February 2010 (PDF, 594K)
If you would like to receive a electronic (CD) copy of the revised draft planning documents or if you have any questions regarding the Rakiura Planning Process please contact Rebecca Heenan on +64 3 211 2400.
Hearings
A total of nine hearings were held between late June through to late August 2009.
View the hearing schedule (PDF, 42K).
Submissions
The summary of submissions received on the two draft planning documents has now been completed. Hearings are scheduled to take place from the 22nd of June 2009 to the 24th of August 2009. View the summary of submissions (PDF, 259K). (Please note that this is an amended version as the previously published version did not contain the full list of submitters.)
On Saturday 22 November 2008, the Department of Conservation notified the first draft Rakiura National Park Management Plan and revised Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy.
While these are legally separate planning documents, for ease of use they have been printed as one document. View the draft Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and draft Rakiura National Park Management Plan online.
Alternatively, copies are available on CD from the Rakiura planning team; or you can view printed hard copies at all Department of Conservation Conservancy offices throughout New Zealand.
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The submission period for the draft Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy and draft Rakiura National Park Management Plan was open until 5pm, 11 March 2009.
This submission period was longer than the two months required by legislation due to it running over a busy time of the year.
Viewing these documents
These documents are currently only available on this website as PDFs. If you can't view PDFs please get in touch with the listed contact to request another format or hard copies.
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Background
In September 2006, the Department of Conservation advertised its intent to prepare the first management plan for Rakiura National Park and review the existing Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy. The decision was made to run both planning processes together in order to address conservation management on Stewart Island/Rakiura as a whole.
A discussion document was released, asking key questions and requesting feedback on what people value about Stewart Island/Rakiura as well as feedback on key management issues. The summary of feedback responses document summarises the feedback responses received from the discussion document.
Feedback indicated that there were important places on the island that needed to be discussed more fully. As a result, a series of public workshops were organised during 2007 and early 2008 to discuss the following subjects:
- Ulva Island
- Mason Bay
- Port Pegasus
- Hunting / hunter huts
- The northern / southern / Halfmoon Bay / Oban parts of the island
The summary of public workshops document summarises the discussions that took place as part of these workshops.
The Rakiura Planning Team has provided regular updates to interested people and organisations through newsletters.
If you have any questions about this planning process or the public notification of the draft Rakiura National Park Management plan and draft Stewart Island/Rakiura Conservation Management Strategy, please do not hesitate to contact the Rakiura planning team.
Contact
Rebecca Heenan
Rakiura planning team
Department of Conservation
PO Box 743
Invercargill
Ph: +64 3 211 2400
Fax: +63 3 214 4486 (Attention: Rakiura planning team)
Email: rakiura@doc.govt.nz
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