QEII National Trust

QEII Trust helps private landowners in New Zealand to protect significant natural and cultural features on their land through open space covenants in perpetuity.

Features protected include landscapes, forest remnants, wetlands, grasslands, threatened species habitats, and cultural and archaeological sites.

A QEII open space covenant can help safeguard forever a place that is special to you.

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Mangawhai, Northland
This fence protecting semi-
coastal forest and wetland
was funded by QEII, the
landowners and Northland
Regional Council. For
more stories about
QEII covenants ...

Farm management improved by protecting wetlands with QEII covenants

Landcorp Sweetwater Station
July 2008

Over fifty landowners in the Far North were acknowledged by QEII Trust on Wednesday 23 July for their commitment to protecting natural features on their land with QEII covenants.

Along with council staff and others involved with QEII Trust, Far North covenantors were invited to Landcorp’s Sweetwater Station west of Kaitaia for a tour of protected wetlands on the property.

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Wetlands protected: Yvonne Sharp, Acting QEII Trust Chairperson, and Gerry Soanes, Landcorp National Manager Property, open the Sweetwater Station QEII covenants.