CORANZ

The Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of New Zealand (CORANZ) is an advocate for the common interests of the "million or more" New Zealanders who fish, shoot, tramp, ski, climb, walk, mountain bike, botanise, photograph or relax in New Zealand's great outdoors. The combined direct membership of CORANZ member bodies is some 18,000 with a wider support base of approximately 200,000 individuals. The latter are represented by CORANZ member groups constituent organisations who have pledged support for our objectives.

CORANZ member associations include:

• New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (Inc).
• Public Access New Zealand.
• New Zealand Salmon Anglers Association.
• Option4 - Recreational Sea Fishers Trust.
• Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust
• Jet Boating New Zealand.
• New Zealand Bowhunters Society.
• Marlborough Recreational (Sea) Fishers.

What We Do

The Council commonly called CORANZ was formed to be an advocate for and promote the common interests of outdoor recreation participants at the national level. This was because of concern among many outdoor users that, although the outdoors and recreation are very important components of the New Zealand psyche, this has frequently not been reflected by political and official decision-making or by national sports/ recreation administrators.

 Latest News! 

An opinion piece on the current Canada Geese shambles has been produced by SHOT. See the CORANZ News Page for more.

What model should be used to represent saltwater anglers? See the CORANZ News Page for comment.

The NZFFA AGM was held in Dunedin April 28th and 29th, 2012. See the CORANZ News page for more details.

An address to the Walking Access Commission on the loss of recreational access to and through Crown Forests has been added to the current issues page.

Material from the Coastal Coalition on the Marine and Coastal Areas Act has been added to the Foreshore and Seabed page.

The CORANZ 2011 Election Strategy has received widespread support. Read more about it and why it is important on our Election 2011 page

The CORANZ AGM was held on Sunday 18th September in Wellington. More information and documentation is available in the Resources Page.

The 2011 CORANZ Election Charter is now online. See our Resources Page for details, or to download..

The Marlborough Recreational Fishers Association has a new website. See our CORANZ Members page for the link.

See the Foreshore and Seabed page for information on this topic, and 'The Gathering Storm over the Foreshore and Seabed', an informative 110 page book by Dr Hugh Barr.

For more news items from CORANZ and its member organisations, click on the arrow besides HOME (above) and select News, or click here...

Also, see the Current Issues page for more information on:

• Exclusive Access to public resources 
• Foreshore & Seabed 
• Access Issues
• The Troutfarming debate
• Mining on Public Lands
• Wild Rivers Campaign

Obituary -

John Henderson

CORANZ Resources.

See our Resources page for information on other material from CORANZ and its members.

See our Foreshore and Seabed page for information on this topic. 

Call Us Today!

Please contact us anytime! We look forward to hearing from you.

See who we are,

our Contact Page, or contact:

Dr Hugh Barr

Secretary

PO Box 1876

Wellington

Tel&Fax +64 4 934 2244

hugh@infosmart.co.nz