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| | Regional Perspective |
 | | DoC is responsible for the management of almost one-third of New Zealand's land area, including 250 campsites, over 100 picnic areas, 960 back country huts, more than 40 visitor centres, 10,000 kilometers of walking tracks, numerous roads, and some airstrips and jetties. |
 | | The 1993 National tahr Control Plan of the New Zealand's Department of Conservation sets objectives that are widely appreciated by farmers and hunters, but it is still opposed by factions in the conservation lobby. |
 | | It vigorously moves into a new paradigm in the concept of forestry; forestry is not an exclusive science but a multidisciplinary and multisectoral field that focusses on integrated community-based, people-oriented, and participatory programmes to attain sustainable forest and environmental resource conservation, management, and development. |
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