FMC Encouraged to see Ahuriri reclassifications
FMC is very supportive of DOC’s proposal to add 4808 hectares of stewardship land adjacent to the Ahuriri Conservation Park to the Park. The Ahuriri Conservation Park is one of a network of highcountry parks that FMC, along with Forest and Bird, successfully campaigned for in the 2000’s.
The larger blocks to be reclassified are the Ohau Moraines Wetland Complex and the Ribbonwood Conservation Area, the former especially has significance as it increases the representativeness of the local habitats within the Park
FMC has been campaigning for further protection of stewardship land since 2014, and with the near completion of an intensive process (by DOC and Conservation Boards) of likely land parcel identification and prioritisation, we will be pushing for a dramatic increase in activity over the next several years.
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We’re excited to share the new FMC Executive Committee, taking office on June 1 2026.
For over ten years, FMC has been involved in efforts to protect the Waitaha River. FMC made its first submission opposing the scheme in 2016, celebrated it being declined in 2019, and has spent the past 12 months fighting for a voice through the Fast-Track process. Throughout it all, FMC has been advocating for the Waitaha, publicly and behind the scenes.
FMC has submitted on a proposed land exchange that would see 29.7 hectares of conservation land in the eastern Ruahine Forest Park swapped for 170 hectares of private land, to enable the construction of a dam and reservoir on the Makaroro River.
