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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04300640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><B>Outdoor Recreation New Zealand</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>    |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Outdoor Recreation New Zealand"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U>History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Outdoors Policy"><U>Outdoors Policy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hot Topics"><U>Hot Topics</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Media Releases"><U>Media Releases</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Membership Form"><U>Membership Form</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications Library"><U>Publications Library</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gallery"><U>Gallery</U></A>   |   <B>Contact Us</B>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>POLICIES of </B></div> <div> <B>OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure unrestricted Public Access to Public Land.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure government agencies and local bodies fulfill their statutory obligations with aspect to Queen's chain, legal roads, marginal strips, easements and other legal mechanisms.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Restrict foreign and other ownership of New Zealand land where access to public land is not fully protected.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure Government departments involved in the implementation of the Crown Tenure Review negotiations fully realise their obligations to New Zealanders in regards access to the resulting public lands.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Appoint an Access Ombudsman.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote legislation that ensures a priority legal right for all New Zealanders to gather seafood and have access to quality marine food resources. Following discussions with major salt water fishing groups our policies have been amended and authorised by the Council</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that all New Zealanders have a priority right over commercial fishers, to a reasonable daily bag limit, and have the ability to exclude commercial methods that may deplete recreationally important areas.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure no licensing of salt-water recreational fishing and no licensing for the gathering of seafood for non-commercial purposes.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that recreational fishing and seafood gathering opportunities are not disadvantaged by the establishment of Marine Reserves. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Consult with all agencies and groups to plan for future generations to enjoy their legal right to take fish, while preventing fish conserved for recreational use being allocated to the commercial sector. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote the improvement of water quality in rivers, lakes, streams and the marine environment</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Support environmental agencies in implementing water quality standards.</B></div> <div> <B>Require government agencies and local bodies to consider the rights of outdoor sportspeople in their decisions pursuant to the RMA.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the rights of all affected parties are considered in any water resource usage approval that may be detrimental to one or more user of that resource.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Restrict the use of toxins that have the potential to harm the health, economic well being and recreational requirements of New Zealanders.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure full accountability to the NZ public by those who use and apply poisons, toxins, or any modified biological agents or organisms in the NZ environment.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Protect local community interests and the New Zealand clean green image.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Consider alternative methods of control for pests such as possums, stoats, ferrets and weasels e.g. bounty.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Support recreational hunting and harvesting of  game animals</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Game animals to be recognised and managed as a valuable, sustainable resource.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that the ownership of all game animals remains vested in the Crown until lawfully taken.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the retention of the prohibition on the sale of shooting rights on public land.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure that recreational hunters have equal rights with commercial operators (including safari operators) to the access and harvest of game animals on public lands.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promote responsible firearm  ownership</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ensure the maintenance of a system of lawful private ownership of firearms by fit and proper persons without undue cost and formality.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regularly seek counsel from New Zealand's outdoor recreational organisations, lobby groups and users</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gain information and advice on policy and issues of concern.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Strive to reach consensus between outdoor recreation groups.</B></div> <div> <B>Advocate in Parliament and elsewhere on behalf of NZ outdoor recreational users.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Review and reform legislation to reflect the policies of OUTDOOR RECREATION NZ,  including but not necessarily limited to:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Overseas Investment Act 1973, </B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Biosecurity Act 1993,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">National Parks  Act  1980,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Land Act 1948,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fisheries Act 1983 and 1996,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Wild Animal Control Act 1977,</B></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marine Reserves Act 1971,</B></div> <div> <B>Arms Act 1983</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Contact Us</I></div> <div> Let us know what you think! </div> <bR> <div> For general enquiries, get in touch via email at <A HREF="mailto:info@outdoorrecreation.co.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@outdoorrecreation.co.nz"><U>info@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> To contact specific people, see below</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>ORNZ e-mail address list</U></B> </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="624" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Phil Hoare</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Chairman</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:chairman@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:chairman@ornz.org.nz"><U>chairman@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Dick Tyson</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Secretary</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:sec@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:sec@ornz.org.nz"><U>sec@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Sue Smart</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Treasurer</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:treasurer@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:treasurer@ornz.org.nz"><U>treasurer@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Phil Hoare</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Hunting</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:hunting@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:hunting@ornz.org.nz"><U>hunting@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Tony Smart</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> 1080</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:1080@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:1080@ornz.org.nz"><U>1080@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div>   "        "</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Pest Control</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:pestcontr@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:pestcontr@ornz.org.nz"><U>pestcontr@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Dick Tyson</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Wetlands</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:wetlands@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:wetlands@ornz.org.nz"><U>wetlands@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Bob Roper</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Marine</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:marine@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:marine@ornz.org.nz"><U>marine@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Peter Vahry</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Access</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:access@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:access@ornz.org.nz"><U>access@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Marc Alexander</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="152"><div> Environment</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:environment@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:environment@ornz.org.nz"><U>environment@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="152"><div> Beth Stone</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Urban Environment</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> <A HREF="mailto:envirornz@ornz.org.nz" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:envirornz@ornz.org.nz"><U>envirornz@ornz.org.nz</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>