New plan for the ‘home of the big tramp’

August 2011

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August 2011

One plus of the MANP management plan is fewer commercial guides will be able to take clients to places like Rabbit Pass. Photo: Yvonne Sprey
A new management plan for Mount Aspiring National Park that is seven years overdue has finally been approved after compromises were reached, some positive, but others uneasy. Last month the New Zealand Conservation Authority formally approved the new plan for the management of the country’s third largest national park. Covering about 355,500ha in Otago and […]
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