What does (SNA FNDC) Stand for exactly. Well it stands for
“Significant natural areas far north district council”
The (SNA FNDC) is an organisation that is out to take people's land to stop the “Ecological” areas from native plants and habitats.
Add if you were wondering here is what “ecological” means
adjective
relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
"pollution is posing a serious threat to the ecological balance of the oceans"
So what the (SNA) are doing they are taking maori peoples lands so they can work on this project of theirs to prevent the 43 percent of the ecological gasses being released from these native plants and habitats.. And this was mapped 30 percent from the 1999’s.
From this week, around 9000 Far North property owners with Significant Natural Areas on their land will receive a letter from the Council. A Significant Natural Area (SNA)
has high ecological value due to the native plants and habitat there. Many Far North property owners will already know they have an area like this on their land and will also know about District Plan rules designed to manage and protect these areas.
We are now working on a new District Plan and the Government requires that these areas are identified and managed more specifically. We also have a responsibility under the Resource Management Act to protect significant indigenous vegetation and habitats. To comply with this, we worked with other Northland Councils last year to map SNAs in the region. This was undertaken by ecologists, Wildland Consultants. They used a combination of existing information, new aerial photography, and site visits to identify SNAs. This work has increased the accuracy and knowledge of natural areas and we now know that approximately 42 per cent of our district contains potentially sensitive environments. Half of this is within Department of Conservation land. When last mapped in the 1990s, SNAs accounted for just under a third of the district so many property owners will be unaware that their land includes an SNA.
Locations that the (SNA FNDC) are taking map
