Find out about New Zealand's first marine reserve -Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve. Located north of Auckland, the reserve is also known as Goat Island or Leigh marine reserve.
The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park was established by special legislation in February 2000. The marine park protects important areas within a lived in, worked in environment, and includes land managed by different agencies.
New Zealand's largest marine reserve, Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve, extends 12 nautical miles from the cliffs and boulder beaches of the various Kermadec Islands and rocks out to the edge of the territorial sea.
The Long Bay-Okura Marine Reserve protects a stretch of coastline just north of Auckland.
The Motu Manawa Marine Reserve protects 500 hectares of the inner reaches of Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
The Tāwharanui Marine Reserve protects approximately 400 hectares on the northern coast of the Tawharanui Peninsula, 90 kilometres from Auckland City.
The 690-hectare Te Matuku Marine Reserve protects one of Waiheke Island's largest and least disturbed estuaries and an area outside Te Matuku Bay in the Waiheke Channel.
The boundaries of the West Coast North Island marine mammal sanctuary extend from Maunganui Bluff in Northland to Oakura Beach, Taranaki, in the south.
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