Biodiversity
Tōī mountain cabbage tree (Cordyline indivisa)
National Outcome: Improved measurement, management and protection of New Zealand’s terrestrial biodiversity, including in the conservation estate.
This National Outcome can only be achieved through the concerted actions of many agencies principally DOC, regional councils, the Sanctuaries of New Zealand network, NGOs and community groups, and also private landowners, Māori and primary sector businesses. All of these agencies need cost-effective consistent biodiversity management and monitoring tools that encompass the diversity of species and habitats within and outside the conservation estate. Consistency across diverse agencies supports a shared understanding of priorities for conservation management, and provides a more robust co-ordinated framework for assessing the effectiveness of management actions targeting these priorities.
Landcare Research’s role is to work closely with stakeholders to develop and apply monitoring and management systems across New Zealand, and to build and share knowledge about how to protect and enhance New Zealand’s valued biodiversity. This is also reflected in our role as the host agency for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, which involves 17 collaborating parties focused on reversing the decline in New Zealand’s biodiversity.
Impact 1.1
Trends in national and regional biodiversity on public and private land are known and understood, based on best available definitions and descriptions for species and indices of ecological integrity.
Impact 1.2
Frameworks are in place to ensure the most threatened ecosystems, habitats and species are managed to reduce the risk of decline in native biodiversity.
