QEII National Trust protected areas

QEII National Trust (Ngā Kairauhī Papa) is an independent statutory organisation and a registered charity that partners with private landowners to protect sites on their land with covenants. QEII National Trust was set up in 1977 to 'encourage and promote, for the benefit of New Zealand, the provision, protection, preservation and enhancement of open space'. Open Space (as described in the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Act 1977) means any area of land or body of water that serves to preserve or to facilitate the preservation of any landscape of aesthetic, cultural, recreational, scenic, scientific or social interest or value. QEII National Trust's core objective is to secure long-term protection of natural and cultural features on private land with covenants. A covenant is an agreement between QEII National Trust and a landowner. The landowner continues to own and manage the protected land, and the covenant and protection stays on the land, even when the property is sold to a new owner. QEII acts as the perpetual trustee to ensure the covenant remains protected forever. Our partnerships have created a growing network of over 5,000 protected areas throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, ranging from small backyard patches to huge swathes of high country. These covenants protect more than 180,000 ha of private land and play a hugely critical role as a refuge for some of New Zealand’s rarest and most endangered biodiversity and ecosystems. This dataset shows the extent of QEII National Trust protected areas throughout Aotearoa, updated on a weekly basis. While these are predominantly registered Open Space Covenants, there are a small number with different covenant agreements (Kawenata, Life of Trees and Restoration Agreements). In addition, there are 31 formalised covenants. These comprise 17 Landscape Protection Agreements with a territorial authority (e.g., district council) over land that has no legal title, as well as 14 QEII National Trust properties with no registered covenant established prior to the Trust’s ownership. Each year new covenants are approved by the QEII Board, but each may take, on average, two years to complete the process to registration. In addition, there are a number of changes to existing covenants as a result of subdivisions, changes of ownership, variations and so on. A small number of QEII National Trust protected areas are not included in this publicly available dataset for privacy reasons. In general, QEII National Trust protected areas are over private land with no public access. Where it is known that public access is permitted, either fully, partially or subject to prior approval from the landowner, these areas are featured on the Protected Places to Visit section of the QEII website. Please refer to the specific site information for further details on public access and any restrictions in place. If you would like to notify QEII of a protected area with public access which could be featured on our website, please contact us. It should be noted that the digital boundaries of QEII National Trust protected areas are a graphic representation only and should not be taken as the definitive covenant boundaries. The digital data of QEII National Trust protected area boundaries has originally been compiled from various sources around the country, including regional and district councils, Department of Conservation (DOC) conservancies, surveyors and LandOnline. Funding from the Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (TFBIS) in 2005 enabled QEII to sub-contract the digital capture of covenant boundaries from survey plans for the remaining parts of the country. Since 2005, new covenant boundaries have been supplied directly to QEII by the surveyors who produce the survey plans or have been downloaded from LandOnline. More recently, covenant boundaries are derived from the LINZ Data Service non-primary parcel data, when covenant survey data has been captured as non-primary parcels by LINZ. For whole of parcel covenants, the boundaries are derived from the LINZ Data Service primary parcel data. The NZ primary and non-primary parcel data is under Crown copyright – Land Information New Zealand and licensed for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0).QEII国家信托（QEII National Trust，Ngā Kairauhī Papa）是一家独立法定机构与注册慈善组织，与私人土地所有者合作，通过契约（covenant）保护其土地上的场地。QEII国家信托成立于1977年，宗旨为“为新西兰的福祉，鼓励并推动开放空间（Open Space）的提供、保护、保存与提升”。根据1977年《伊丽莎白二世国家信托法案》定义的开放空间（Open Space），指任何用于保存或助力保存具有美学、文化、娱乐、景观、科学或社会价值或意义的景观的土地或水域区域。QEII国家信托的核心目标是通过契约长期保护私人土地上的自然与文化特征。契约是QEII国家信托与土地所有者之间签订的协议，土地所有者仍拥有并管理受保护土地，且契约及保护措施将随土地流转，即便产权易主。QEII作为永久受托人，确保契约得到永久保护。通过合作，我们在奥特亚罗瓦（Aotearoa）新西兰境内构建了不断壮大的受保护区域网络，目前已超过5000处，范围从小型后院地块到广袤的高地区域均有覆盖。这些契约保护了超过18万公顷的私人土地，作为新西兰部分珍稀濒危生物多样性与生态系统的庇护所，发挥着至关重要的作用。本数据集展示了QEII国家信托在奥特亚罗瓦新西兰境内的受保护区域范围，每周更新一次。其中绝大多数为已注册的开放空间契约（Open Space Covenant），但也包含少量其他类型的契约协议（包括Kawenata、生命之树协议与修复协议）。此外，本数据集还涵盖31项正式契约：其中17项是与区域主管机构（如地区议会）签订的景观保护协议，涉及无合法产权的土地；另有14项为QEII国家信托在获得所有权前未完成注册契约的自有物业。每年QEII董事会都会批准新的契约，但平均需要两年时间才能完成全部注册流程。此外，现有契约还会因土地细分、产权变更、条款修订等情形发生诸多变更。出于隐私保护考量，少量QEII国家信托的受保护区域未纳入本公开数据集。通常而言，QEII国家信托的受保护区域位于私人土地上，不对外开放。若已知某区域允许完全、部分开放，或需经土地所有者事先批准方可进入，则该区域会在QEII官网的“可参观的受保护场所”板块展示。如需了解公共开放权限及相关限制的详细信息，请查阅具体场地的说明。若您希望告知QEII一处可对外开放的受保护区域并将其纳入官网展示，请与我们联系。需要注意的是，QEII国家信托受保护区域的数字边界仅为图形示意，不应被视为具有法律效力的契约边界。本数据集的受保护区域边界数字数据最初由全国多地的各类来源汇编而成，包括大区与地区议会、新西兰保育部（Department of Conservation, DOC）辖区办公室、测量师以及LandOnline。2005年，陆地与淡水生物多样性信息系统（Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System, TFBIS）提供的资助使得QEII得以分包开展全国剩余区域的契约边界从测量图纸的数字化采集工作。2005年以来，新的契约边界数据均由出具测量图纸的测量师直接提供给QEII，或从LandOnline下载获取。近期，当契约测量数据被新西兰土地信息局（Land Information New Zealand, LINZ）作为非主宗地数据采集时，契约边界数据将源自LINZ数据服务的非主宗地数据集。对于整宗地契约，其边界则源自LINZ数据服务的主宗地数据集。新西兰主宗地与非主宗地数据受新西兰王室版权保护——由新西兰土地信息局（Land Information New Zealand）所有，并采用知识共享署名4.0国际许可协议（Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, CC-BY-4.0）授权再使用。