Nature Heritage Fund
The Nature Heritage Fund protects ecosystems that represent the full range of natural diversity originally present in the New Zealand landscape by providing incentives for voluntary conservation on private land.
The Nature Heritage Fund helps meet the cost of protecting areas of high ecological value on private land by providing contestable finance for projects that protect ecosystems either by direct purchase, or covenant.
Applications can be made to the Nature Heritage 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, and
- non-government organisations (NGOs),
- central government departments and agencies
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Applications must be on the Fund's application form accompanied by the supporting material specified on the form.
SILNA forest owners
SILNA forests are indigenous forests on land allocated to Maori under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906.
SILNA forest owners can apply to protect forests on SILNA lands by way of a conservation covenant. Application can be made by writing to the Nature Heritage Fund at the address below, to register an interest.
Contact
The Executive Officer
Nature Heritage Fund
PO Box 10-420
Wellington
Tel: +64 4 471 0726 or Fax +64 4 471-3018
Email NHF-Admin@doc.govt.nz
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