East Coast Bay of Plenty Conservation Board district
The Board's area of responsibility is the same as the East Coast Bay of Plenty Conservancy boundary.
The East Coast Bay of Plenty Conservancy is a new canvas that encapsulates the western and eastern parts of the Bay of Plenty stretching in a ribbon like flow from west of Tauranga city, back to the Waikato River, embracing Rotorua city down to the East Cape and on through to Gisborne.
The total area of the conservancy is 2.3 m ha's with public conservation lands including 637 k ha's or 27.6% of the region.
Amazing forests such as Te Urewera National Park and Whirinaki Forest Park, Raukumara and Kaimai Mamaku Conservation Parks are enjoyed by a wide range of recreational users from around and beyond our region.
These ancient, generous ranges are connected intimately with significant coastal forest and dune lands that lie at the fringes of the conservancy and continue into the depths of the marine world through to fifty seven off shore islands and beyond.
Wetland features, associated vegetation and the geothermal wonders of the Rotorua Lakes and surrounding reserve network also provide unique features to an area that is as diverse in species as it is in people groups and communities.
The places within the conservancy are novels in their own right, with pages of natural beauty, special stories, historical and cultural and taonga associated with them. An estimated 301,875 people call this conservancy home, together with 15.5% of New Zealand's total Maori population.