Stewart Island/Rakiura conservation management planning

Hearings

A total of nine hearings have been scheduled for the draft planning documents, these have been scheduled from late June through to late August. 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. 

Stewart Island robin 

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.   

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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