Nature Heritage Fund
Encyclopedia
The Nature Heritage Fund is a New Zealand
Government
funding body
set up in 1990 for the purchase of land which has significant ecological
or landscape features.
It is administered by the Department of Conservation
. It was initially called the Forest Heritage Fund but the name was changed in 1998 to reflect the need to protect ecosystem
s other than forests.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
funding body
Funding body
A funding body is an organisation that provides research funding in the form of research grants or scholarships. These include:* Arts councils* Research councils for the funding of science....
set up in 1990 for the purchase of land which has significant ecological
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
or landscape features.
It is administered by the Department of Conservation
New Zealand Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation , commonly known by its acronym, "DOC", is the state sector organisation which deals with the conservation of New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage...
. It was initially called the Forest Heritage Fund but the name was changed in 1998 to reflect the need to protect ecosystem
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
s other than forests.
External links
- Department of Conservation Nature Heritage Fund information on the fund.