Develop DoC’s core capacity by improving funding for human resources, including scientific staff, field workers, educational officers, and locally based volunteer initiatives
Increasing funding to the Nature Heritage Fund to $15 million/year to enable the purchase of special places that are threatened
Conserve existing protected natural areas (PNA) and establish new ones (National parks and reserves)
Ensure that the Sustainable Development Programme of Action for Freshwater aims to manage all fresh water at a quality and quantity that will sustain indigenous species and ecosystems such as wetlands
Require local authorities to develop and use conservation plans

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We believe the next step forward for conserving our unique flora and fauna is to encourage the initiatives of thousands of volunteers and dozens of organisations in community conservation projects
We must also remove disincentives to landowners seeking to improve their land management
Ten of New Zealand’s national parks are in the South Island and the remaining four are in the lower and eastern North Island. Yet 50% of the population lives north of Taupo. It is time to advance two new national parks in the north
The Waitakere Ranges in Auckland are iconic. The prospect of these public lands becoming a new national park is worthy of proper investigation by the Department of Conservation

Enhance and protect the rights of all New Zealanders to access their cultural heritage sites and clarify and amend legislation associated with protecting these heritage sites
Ensure the conservation of indigenous biodiversity
Provide conservation authorities with the necessary resources and legislative framework
Investigate fully the baseline costs needed to maintain the expanding conservation estate being built up by the current government
Develop further co-management plans and structures to increase conservation gains on a wider scale

Amend the Conservation Act to ensure that the interests of all conservation estate stakeholders are taken into account when decisions are made
Establish transparent Department of Conservation public application and decision-making procedures for making decisions regarding use of the conservation estate
Provide additional funding for pest control measures that target the most noxious and destructive pests once thorough consultation has taken place with relevant local community and recreational groups
Although we are supportive of most current pest control methods, United Future is generally opposed to the aerial application of 1080