Story: Protected areas

More links and websites

• Department of Conservation

  The Department of Conservation’s website has extensive information on New Zealand’s protected areas.

• Environments of New Zealand – Biodiversity

  This page on the government’s biodiversity website links to information on New Zealand environmental classifications.

More suggestions and sources

• MacEwen, W. M. Ecological regions and districts of New Zealand. 3rd ed. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 1987.
• Pawson, Eric, and Tom Brooking, eds. Environmental histories of New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Simpson, Philip, ed. Ecological regions and districts of New Zealand: a natural subdivision. Wellington: Biological Resources Centre, 1982.
• Young, David. Our islands, our selves: a history of conservation in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.