Tarnbrae moraines complex, Ohau
Image: Gilbert van Reenen ©

Nature Heritage Fund

Introduction

This fund helps private landowners, local government, community groups and others protect high value ecosystems.

NHF logo.

Who can apply

Applications can be made to the fund by:

  • private landowners
  • local and regional government bodies, and local authority trading enterprises
  • professional and community-based organisations
  • local, regional, and national “umbrella” organisations
  • non-government organisations (NGOs)
  • central government departments and agencies.

SILNA forest owners can also apply to the Nature Heritage Fund to protect SILNA forests. 

About the Nature Heritage Fund

South Chatham swamp.

Information about the history, vision, methods and criteria of the Nature Heritage Fund.

How to apply

Banded dotterel.

For your application to be considered at the next Nature Heritage Fund Committee meeting, it must be submitted by 5 pm on Monday, 19 March 2018. Those submitted after this date will be reviewed at the following Committee meeting.

SILNA forests

Waitutu Forest.

SILNA forests are indigenous forests on land allocated to Māori under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906.

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