# The wild ledger

The district plan’s ecological significance schedules, 130 mapped sites covering 20,400 hectares. Schedule A sites are protected; Schedule B sites are recorded on private land for information only while protection is worked through with the landowners.

## The schedules

- Schedule A Sites of Ecological Significance: 65 sites, 14,692 ha
- Schedule B Information only – Ecological sites on private land that require further collaboration with landowners: 65 sites, 5,708 ha

## The suburbs the schedules touch
By share of outline inside the scheduled sites, a sampled join, so a sliver still counts.

- Brooklands: 61% inside scheduled sites
- Bromley: 54% inside scheduled sites
- Southshore: 46% inside scheduled sites
- Ferrymead: 45% inside scheduled sites
- Spencerville: 41% inside scheduled sites
- South New Brighton: 28% inside scheduled sites
- Burwood: 28% inside scheduled sites
- Bexley: 26% inside scheduled sites
- Kainga: 13% inside scheduled sites
- Waimairi Beach: 12% inside scheduled sites
- Northwood: 12% inside scheduled sites
- New Brighton: 10% inside scheduled sites
- Little River: 10% inside scheduled sites, 4% identified only
- Bottle Lake: 10% inside scheduled sites
- McLeans Island: 10% inside scheduled sites

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Christchurch City Council open data, the DistrictPlanB service’s DPEcologicalSignificance layer, the operative plan’s ecological significance schedules. A recognition overlay, not a survey of every living place: Schedule B sites are identified, not yet protected. A point’s own answer: https://www.chch.live/before · the cultural landscape: https://www.chch.live/cultural · the waterways: https://www.chch.live/water. The files: https://www.chch.live/ecology.json · https://www.chch.live/ecology.geojson · by suburb: https://www.chch.live/suburb-ecology.json