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What alternative protection classifications, if any, is the Minister currently considering for the Denniston Plateau following the decision to decline conservation park status?

Answered Question 3941 (2026)
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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

List MP · Labour Party

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  • What alternative protection classifications, if any, is the Minister currently considering for the Denniston Plateau following the decision to decline conservation park status?

Answered by

Hon Tama Potaka

Member for Hamilton West · National Party · Minister of Conservation

Answer

My current focus is to support the Department to implement the decisions I made to reclassify approximately 500,000ha of stewardship land on the West Coast. Any land that is not proposed for reclassification will remain as stewardship land which is managed and protected under the Conservation Act 1987.