Open AccessReinvigorating the vision: conservation boards’ role in 21st-century nature conservation
Author(s) -
Christine Cheyne
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v12i1.4579
Subject(s) - statutory law , stakeholder , conservation psychology , nature conservation , wildlife conservation , business , environmental planning , environmental resource management , political science , public relations , geography , ecology , wildlife , biodiversity , economics , law , biology
Public and stakeholder involvement in nature conservation through conservation boards has been a distinctive feature of New Zealand’s statutory framework for conservation, put in place in 1987. Since their inception, effective boards established for the purpose of ensuring that conservation stakeholders’ voices inform conservation planning have been regarded, at least in official discourse, as a key mechanism for achieving conservation outcomes. They replaced the existing national parks boards and, like their parent body, the New Zealand Conservation Authority, were intended to focus on the entire conservation estate.