About the Trust
The Lake Taupō Protection Trust was set up in February 2007 to administer the $81.5 million fund to protect Lake Taupō's excellent water quality, which is under threat from the effects of past and current land use activities.
The trust was charged with developing a programme of work that would reduce the amount of manageable nitrogen leaching into the lake by 20 per cent.
The trust used the funds to encourage and assist land use change, to purchase land/nitrogen in the Lake Taupō catchment and to fund any other initiatives that assisted landowners to reduce the nitrogen impact of their activities on Lake Taupō.
All nitrogen purchases have been completed and the project is now within a monitoring phase.
Taupō District Council was appointed as the sole trustee of the trust on 30 June 2023.
