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GENERAL

The Claim

Pourewa Creek Reserve is located within the Tāmaki Ecological District.

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The Short Version

Available evidence supports the claim. Local restoration and reserve planning documents place the Pourewa area in Ōrākei and explicitly describe the project area as within the Tāmaki Ecological District, matching wider descriptions of that district’s Auckland isthmus coverage. The main limitation is that the cited record does not show a direct DOC GIS overlay of the reserve’s exact legal boundary.

Caveats

  • The cited support relies mainly on project and reserve documents rather than a displayed DOC boundary overlay of the reserve’s exact legal footprint.
  • Some supporting sources are stakeholder or advocacy-adjacent; they are useful corroboration but not stronger than official DOC spatial data.
  • If legal, regulatory, or mapping precision is required, the reserve boundary should be checked directly against the DOC ecological-district GIS layer.

The Receipts

  1. Ecological Districts

    Department of Conservation Open Spatial Data

  2. Ecological regions and districts of New Zealand

    Department of Conservation (DOC) New Zealand

  3. Pourewa Valley Integrated Plan Restoration Plan

    Pourewa.nz

  4. Tāmaki Ecological District Wetlands

    Tiaki Tamaki Makaurau

  5. Combined Reserve Management Plan

    Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei

  6. Ecological regions and districts of New Zealand

    DigitalNZ

  7. Conservation map

    Tiaki Tamaki Makaurau

  8. Pourewa Creek Recreation Reserve

    Pourewa.nz

  9. Pourewa - Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei

    Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei

  10. The Pourewa Valley Integrated Plan

    Pourewa Valley Integrated Plan

+ 8 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

Filed Under

Pourewa Creek ReserveTāmaki Ecological District