Learn about being nominated and appointed to a conservation board.

On this page:

When do nominations get invited?
How do you get nominated?
Conservation board vacancies
Nomination forms
Where do you forward completed nomination forms?
How are appointments made?

When do nominations get invited?

Nominations will next be invited in 2013.

Auckland Conservation Board visit to
South Kaipara Head

How do you get nominated?

Anybody can be nominated for membership of a conservation board.

You can be nominated by a friend, an organisation, trust, committee, club, or by an iwi, hapu or runanga, or you can nominate yourself.

If you wish to nominate someone else you need to check first that that person is interested and has the time to undertake the role.

Please fill in the nomination form carefully. If you are selected this information will be drawn upon when seeking the endorsement of Cabinet to your appointment. Additional papers (including letters of support), may be added but these should be kept to a minimum.

You can be nominated for more than one board but a separate nomination form will need to be completed for each board. However, you will not be appointed to more than one board.

Conservation Board Vacancies

When making appointments to each board, the Minister will have regard to the particular features of land administered by the Department of Conservation within a Board's area and the interests of nature conservation, natural earth and marine sciences, recreation, tourism and the local community including the tangata whenua of the area.

Generally, appointments will be for a three year term.

Nomination forms

Download the nomination form:

(PDF, 128K) or Microsoft Word (67K)

Nomination forms are also available from all conservancy offices of the Department of Conservation or from the Department's National Office (P.O. Box 10-420, Wellington).

Where do you forward completed nomination forms?

Once completed, please send your nomination form to the local Department of Conservation Conservancy Office for the conservation board as listed below:

Northland Conservation Board
Send to Northland Conservancy, PO Box 842, Whangarei 0104

Auckland Conservation Board
Send to Auckland Conservancy, Private Bag 68908, Auckland 1145

Waikato Conservation Board
Send to Waikato Conservancy, Private Bag 3072, Hamilton 3240

East Coast/Bay of Plenty Conservation Board
Send to East Coast/Bay of Plenty Conservancy, PO Box 1146, Rotorua 3040

Tongariro/Taupo Conservation Board
Send to Tongariro/Whanganui/Taranaki Conservancy, Private Bag 3016, Whanganui 4540

Taranaki/Whanganui Conservation Board
Send to Tongariro/Whanganui/Taranaki Conservancy, Private Bag 3016, Whanganui 4540

Wellington/Hawke's Bay Conservation Board
Send to Wellington/Hawke's Bay Conservancy, PO Box 5086, Wellington 6145

Chatham Islands Conservation Board
Send to Chatham Islands Area Office, PO Box 114, Waitangi, Chathams 8942

Nelson/Marlborough Conservation Board
Send to Nelson/Marlborough Conservancy, Private Bag 5, Nelson 7040

West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation Board
Send to West Coast Tai Poutini Conservancy, Private Bag 701, Hokitika 7842

Canterbury Aoraki Conservation Board
Send to Canterbury Conservancy, Private Bag 4715, Christchurch 8140

Otago Conservation Board
Send to Otago Conservancy, PO Box 5244, Moray Place, Dunedin 9058

Southland Conservation Board
Send to Southland Conservancy, PO Box 743, Invercargill 9840

How are appointments made?

Option A
(Most common)

Annual public notice
With effect 1st September

Option B
(Replacement due to resignation or death etc)

Either:

• i. leave vacant until Option A round
• ii. select from previous year's list
• iii. public notice
• iv. per Option C

Option C
(Not common - Iwi specific)

Statutory provision - timing per Option A or B

Option D
(One case only)

Individual specified in legislation - Paramount Chief Ngati Tuwharetoa

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