Story: National parks

More links and websites

• Journeys in national parks

  An award-winning five-part TV series about New Zealand's national parks, produced in 1987 and available on the NZ On Screen website.

• National parks: parks and recreation

  This section of the Department of Conservation website has information about New Zealand’s national parks.

• New Zealand National Parks & Conservation Foundation

  This foundation works to raise funds in support of the conservation estate.

More suggestions and sources

• Homer, Lloyd, and Les Molloy. The fold of the land: New Zealand’s national parks from the air. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1988.
• McClure, Margaret. The wonder country: making New Zealand tourism. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.
• Muench, David, and Kennedy Warne. New Zealand national parks. Auckland: David Bateman, 2006.
• Thom, David. Heritage: the parks of the people. Auckland: Lansdowne, 1987.
• Young, David. Our islands, our selves: a history of conservation in New Zealand. Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 2004.