Wellington, New Zealand Biodiversity Action Plan
Type: Policy
Status: Initiated in 2007
Source File: http://www.wellington.govt.nz/plans/policies/biodiversity/pdfs/07action.pdf
Description:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
What is a biodiversity action plan?
This action plan coordinates Wellington City Council’s biodiversity activities and
identifies local priorities and actions to protect and restore biodiversity. These
biodiversity activities include pest control, revegetation planting, and partnerships
with other organisations and groups. Wellington’s biodiversity action plan ensures
that the national targets set by the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy (2000) are
translated into local action.
The vision statement for this action plan is:
Wellington is a city that protects and restores biodiversity
and proudly showcases its natural areas. It is a city
renowned for its kaitiakitanga, its environmental
guardianship.
This document describes what biodiversity is, why it’s important, what mechanisms we have in place for its protection and what we are doing to manage our biodiversity assets. It also gives a profile of Wellington’s biodiversity, focusing on main ecosystems or habitats.
The action plan identifies the programmes designed to achieve the vision of this plan, and the corresponding responsibilities, funding sources and timeframes.
The emphasis of this strategy is on Wellington’s indigenous biodiversity. The term ‘Wellington’s biodiversity’ means the indigenous biodiversity that occurs naturally in Wellington.
