Nearly 1 million ha of far western Southland and Otago was set aside as a national reserve.
National Parks
Events In History
23 September 1887
In February 1887 newspapers reported Ngāti Tūwharetoa’s proposal to ‘gift’ the British Crown the mountaintops of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu to form the basis of a national park.
Main image: Perrine Moncrieff
For nearly 50 years Perrine Moncrieff was this country's foremost female conservationist. Born into an upper-class British family, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1921, settled in Nelson and bought land on the shores of Tasman Bay which became a scenic reserve in the 1930s.
