Legal protection of land

If you are planning to do conservation work on your property, consider some form of legal protection to protect your work in perpetuity. This will ensure that your conservation achievements continue, regardless of who owns the land in the future.

With 30 per cent of Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland's remaining native vegetation found on private land, the most effective tools for ensuring these biodiversity values are protected into the future are:

• legal protection through a private land covenant;
• gifting land to a public agency or non-governmental organisation; and
• creating a binding land management agreement with the Auckland Council or the Department of Conservation.

See our Guide to the legal protection of land.