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Browse the Toolbox
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Information/motivation
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The country’s first comprehensive toolkit for those interested in their local estuary is now available.
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Bush Vitality Assessment, Growing Common Futures
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Ever struggled trying to identify birds from the confusion of tweets and screeches in the bush? Well, some on line help is now here.
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The final report on ABC is now available. It sets out what happened over the 3 years, what was learned and the way forward.
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Aim: Council has established a firm political and policy commitment towards achieving Biodiversity Conservation.
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Aim: using information and data from the Toolbox, councils can establish their baseline position and focus efforts on pertinent actions.
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Aim: Future actions aimed at conserving biodiversity need to be identified, prioritised and included in some form of strategic direction for councils to progress. One of the most effective ways of doing this involves the production of a Biodiversity Strategy or Local Biodiversity Action Plan. The purpose of this benchmark then is to outline immediate actions to be commenced, and to plan for the longer term changes to council activities and responsibilities.
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Aim: Once the objectives and priorities have been identified in an action plan, Council must implement activities and monitor their outcomes using previously selected performance indicators. This benchmark will be attained once a council can indicate achievement of on-ground changes in accordance with the action plan.
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Aim: The final benchmark offers the opportunity to evaluate the progress achieved so far, and to ensure that this staged system evolves into a self-perpetuating process understood and enthusiastically adopted by council staff, elected representatives and the community. This chance to reflect also allows the amendment of objectives and actions from lessons learnt to ensure the most successful outcomes for biodiversity.
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Dr Bill Lee from Landcare Research presented a key address at the recent Biodiversity Summit, entitled "Ecological reality – maintaining indigenous biodiversity through the 21st century"
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Information can powerfully set the council to manage its biodiversity assets. If focused, they take in the work quickly. An unfocussed approach to information can be a killer financially, of time, and of enthusiasm.
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Paul Champion from NIWA provided useful guidance at the recent 'Restoring Wetlands Forum'.
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Development of a "community of practice" for freshwater biodiversity information was the focus of a small workshop in Wellington in December 2003. The next step...
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A new information management toolkit is now available on line - and it's not bad even if it was built by the Aussies!
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A National Workshop on managing biodiversity information has raised important issues for Local Government
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 David Bellamy - seen here with kiwi chick - was a keynote speaker at the LGNZ conference.
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