Editing Nelson, New Zealand (section)

===Parks and zoo===
[[File:Founders Heritage Park main street.jpg|thumb|Founders Heritage Park]]
Nelson has a large number and variety of [[public parks]] and reserves maintained at public expense by Nelson City Council.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reserves and Parks|url=http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/parks-and-reserves-3/|publisher=Nelson City Council|access-date=7 February 2010|archive-date=19 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219210204/http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/parks-and-reserves-3|url-status=live}}</ref> Major reserves include Grampians Reserve, close to the suburb of [[Braemar, New Zealand|Braemar]], and the botanical Reserve in the east of Nelson, close to [[The Wood, New Zealand|The Wood]].

Natureland Wildlife Trust (formerly Natureland Zoological Park) is a small zoological facility close to Tāhunanui Beach. The facility is popular with children, where they can closely approach: monkeys (black-capped capuchins, cotton-top tamarins and pygmy marmosets), lemurs, meerkats, agoutis, porcupines, llamas and alpacas, [[Kunekune|Kune Kune pigs]] and peacocks. There are also green iguanas, tropical fish, [[Kākā|kākās]], [[kea]]s and other birds including in a walk through aviary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Natureland Zoo, Nelson, New Zealand|url=http://www.natureland.co.nz/|publisher=Natureland.co.nz|access-date=24 August 2007|archive-date=6 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906021336/http://www.natureland.co.nz/|url-status=live}}</ref> Although the zoo nearly closed in 2008, the Orana Wildlife Trust took over its running instead.<ref>{{Cite web|title=They bought a zoo – Natureland|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9202547/They-bought-a-zoo-Natureland|access-date=3 September 2018|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=25 September 2013|language=en|archive-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903182937/http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9202547/They-bought-a-zoo-Natureland|url-status=live}}</ref> It looked like{{to whom?|date=December 2012}} a bright future ahead for Natureland and its staff, but since the repeated earthquakes in [[2011 Christchurch earthquake|Christchurch in 2011]] and the damage to Orana Park, Orana Wildlife Trust are uncertain of the future of Natureland.<ref>{{cite news|author=Tracy Neal|date=30 June 2011|title=Future of Natureland again in doubt|work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]]|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/5213206/Future-of-Natureland-again-in-doubt|access-date=7 November 2011|archive-date=13 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113083512/http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/5213206/Future-of-Natureland-again-in-doubt|url-status=live}}</ref>
Orana Wildlife Trust have since pulled out of Natureland, which is now run independently.