You’ll find links to all documents that we have available regarding Auckland’s volcanic cones, or maunga. In particular, heaps of documents relating to the Tūpuna Maunga Authority obtained through LGOIMA requests or used with permission. If you have any information you’d like to share, please contact us.
Justice Tahana sets aside consent to fell trees on Ōtāhuhu (June 2024). An important decision, well reasoned: worth a read!
Important updates from Honour The Maunga: Concerning Developments. And The Truth about TMA’s planting at Ōtāhuhu.
Slips on One Tree Hill 2023: a paper by the distinguished geologist Bruce Hayward was kindly supplied for public access.
One Tree Hill slips: the geology behind the recent slips
The Amended Integrated Management Plan has been made public. Passed at the Hui 80 of 11 November. We received ours on 13 February 2023. It’s here for your convenience:
Tupuna-Maunga-Integrated-Management-Plan-Amended-2022
Judgements relating to TMA
High Court Judgment of Gwyn J relating to review of consent December 2020
Appeal is allowed, setting aside decision to fell Ōwairaka trees March 2022
Supreme Court dismisses TMA application to appeal June 2022
Documents for consultation on TMA’s management plan
Tupuna Maunga Integrated Management Plan
Proposed amendment to Integrated Management Plan 2022
Tupuna Maunga Integrated Management Plan Strategies
TMA-Operational-Plan-2022-to-2023-FINAL
Summary TMA Operational Plan 2020-21 FINAL
TMA Hui agenda and minutes (from 2014)
Individual maunga (volcanic cones) documents:
A great deal of information, particularly on Ōwairaka, is available from Honour The Maunga.
No copyright or other rights asserted regarding these public documents that are provided here as a public service. In case of any infringements of rights, or queries please inform us.
The TMA creeps: documents showing TMA extending its reach beyond their title areas
UNESCO application
Text of the ‘Tentative listing’ for UNESCO World Heritage listing
See the document on the UNESCO Fifth ‘C’
It was proposed by New Zealand at the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee in Christchurch in 20o7 to add a fifth ‘C’ to the four strategic objectives of UNESCO (Credibility, Conservation, Capacity-building, Communication). Ironically, the fifth ‘C’ is Community – the very thing the TMA has ridden rough-shod over and trampled into the ground.