New Zealand Recreation Summit
At the 2006 New Zealand Recreation Summit interest groups discussed challenges and opportunities for the future of outdoor recreation on public conservation lands, and reported back on priorities for the government to consider.

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Summary

The New Zealand Outdoor Recreation Summit 2006 was convened by DOC, in collaboration with some national conservation and recreation partners.

It allowed interest groups to use a workshop format to discuss challenges and opportunities for their ‘sector’ for the future of outdoor recreation on public conservation lands, with a report back on priorities for the government to consider.

The resulting 13 recommendations provide a useful touchstone for the values the interest groups held for public conservation lands, and ideas for protecting those various values in to the future.

Summit programme:

  • Keynote speakers discussed known management issues, societal trends, global issues and a Maori perspective.
  • ‘Interest’ groups representing hunters and gatherers, frontcountry and commercial, backcountry, manage and serve, and health and education were represented by speakers who gave a short overview of their view on the challenges for the future.
  • Interest groups used workshop format to discuss challenges and opportunities for their ‘sector’ for the future of outdoor recreation on public conservation lands, with a report back on priorities for the Government to consider.
  • Mixed groups used workshop format to reconsider the recommendations from day one, to develop agreement or identify disagreement, reported back to theplenary and discussed.

New Zealand Recreation Summit: Mountains to Sea, putting Kiwis in touch with their country

Strategies for the Future: 16 – 17 September 2006, Te Papa, Wellington

Notes compiled by Steve Sutton, Department of Conservation