Under the Conservation Act 1987, the Minister of Conservation declares that the land described in the Schedule is held for the purposes of an ecological area, shall be managed as part of the Ngakawau Ecological Area and shall be known as the Ngakawau Ecological Area Extension.
Schedule
Nelson Land District-Buller District
13,255.0000 hectares, being area "A" on S.O. Plan 307286.
Dated at Wellington this 29th day of July 2003.
CHRIS CARTER, Minister of Conservation.
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Explanatory Note
Ecological areas are held for conservation purposes to protect indigenous intrinsic natural values and resources, ecological and evolutionary systems, and in particular to protect values of scientific interest.
Protected area status for this land will protect a large, compact altitudinal sequence of coastal, plateau and mountain land forms and little modified vegetation associations from near sea-level to the tops of the Glasgow Range, a key site for two species of large native land
snails Powelliphanta lignaria johnstoni and P.l. rotella, the stronghold of a locally endemic daisy Celmisia morganii and good populations of forest birds.
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