Waikato Protection Strategy
- Author
- Harding, M
- Year
- 1997
- Journal / Source
- A report to the Forest Heritage Fund committee
- Publisher / Organisation
- Forest Heritage Fund
- Month
- March
- Pages
- 101 pp.
- Summary
- This report has arisen from the need to identify clearer priorities for indigenous forest protection in the Waikato Conservancy. Applications to the Forest Heritage Fund seeking financial assistance for forest protection far exceed the Fund’s present resources. The wide range of forest types proposed for protection, and the serious depletion of indigenous ecosystems in parts of the Conservancy, mean that funding decisions are difficult. Furthermore, the consideration of funding applications is hampered by limited information about the extent of indigenous ecosystems and the extent to which they are protected. The ecological districts that are fully or partly covered by the Waikato Conservancy are listed below, and illustrated in Figure 1. Coromandel Ecological Region .....................Colville ED ............................................................................Mercury Islands ED ............................................................................Thames ED ............................................................................Tairua ED ............................................................................Waihi ED* Waikato Ecological Region............................Meremere ED ............................................................................Hapuakohe ED ............................................................................Hauraki ED ............................................................................Hamilton ED ............................................................................Hinuera ED* ............................................................................Maungatautari ED ............................................................................Waipa ED Tainui Ecological Region................................Raglan ED ............................................................................Kawhia ED ............................................................................Herangi ED Taranaki Ecological Region...........................North Taranaki ED* King Country Ecological Region...................Waitomo ED ............................................................................Taumarunui ED* Western Volcanic Plateau ER........................Ranginui ED ............................................................................Pureora ED ............................................................................Tokoroa ED* Central Volcanic Plateau ER.........................Atiamuri ED* ............................................................................Taupo ED