Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
The landscape in this park, situated in south-west
New Zealand, has been shaped by successive glaciations into fjords,
rocky coasts, towering cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of the
park is covered with southern beech and podocarps, some of which are
over 800 years old. The kea, the only alpine parrot in the world, lives
in the park, as does the rare and endangered takahe, a large flightless
bird.