{"id":466272,"date":"2026-06-08T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466272\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:29:09","slug":"national-leader-christopher-luxon-promises-major-boost-for-qeii-trust-conservation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466272\/","title":{"rendered":"National leader Christopher Luxon promises major boost for QEII Trust conservation fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The trust did get a temporary funding uplift to $5.8m this year but National\u2019s policy would increase funding from its previous level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The funding increase would be confirmed in next year\u2019s Budget and would not be time-limited, meaning it would be funded through the four-year forecast period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Luxon said the funding would assist the trust in offering what he described as the \u201cbest-value conservation in the country\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEvery dollar the government puts in, farmers match many times over. It\u2019s great bang for buck for both the taxpayer and nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMore funding will support landowners with upfront costs like fencing, surveying and legal work \u2013 costs that can often stop good projects from going ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The announcement will likely feature in National\u2019s pitch at Fieldays later this week, which Luxon will be attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust did get a temporary funding uplift to $5.8m this year but National\u2019s policy would increase funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11231,16426,1389,8609,15559,97190,2082,295,738,13489,16427,661,3556,111,43,139,69,30503,15483,236108,3366,9438],"class_list":["post-466272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-boost","tag-christopher","tag-conservation","tag-double","tag-elected","tag-elizabeth","tag-for","tag-fund","tag-funding","tag-leader","tag-luxon","tag-major","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-promises","tag-promising","tag-qeii","tag-queen","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}