Biodiversity

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Search Ministry for the Environment publications 

• Biosecurity
  • Caught in the Headlights: New Zealanders' Reflections on Possums, Control Options and Genetic Engineering (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; October 2000)
  • New Zealand Under Siege: A Review of the Management of Biosecurity Risks to the Environment (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; November 2000)
  • Possum Management in New Zealand: Critical Issues in 1998 (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; November 1998)
  • Potential Direct Effects on Biosecurity from Subdivision Development Activities (New Zealand Planning Institute; March 2006)
  • Space Invaders – A Summary of the Department of Conservation’s Strategic Plan for Managing Invasive Weeds (Department of Conservation; 2000)
  • The Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD) Saga, A Biosecurity/Bio-Control Fiasco (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment; September 1998)

• Indigenous Biodiversity
  • Biodiversity offsetting (Department of Conservation; August 2014)
  • Guidance on Good Practice Biodiversity Offsetting in New Zealand (New Zealand Government; August 2014)
  • Biodiversity on Private Land (New Zealand Planning Institute; January 2002)
  • Biodiversity Planning with 50/50 Vision (New Zealand Planning Institute; May 2003)
  • Biodiversity Protection Provisions (New Zealand Planning Institute; September 1997)
  • Biodiversity - What Does it Mean, and Who is the Enemy? (Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc; October 2001)
  • City of Manningham – Biodiversity Initiatives Programme (New Zealand Planning Institute; July 2002)
  • Classifying species according to threat of extinction: A system for New Zealand (Department of Conservation; October 2002)
  • Conserving Biodiversity – Institutions, Policies and Incentives (The Treasury; November 2000)
  • Encouraging Private Biodiversity: Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation on Private Land (The Treasury; June 2000)
  • Land: Bioinvasions, Biodiversity, Biotic Holocaust (Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc; October 2001)
  • Linkages Between Climate Change and Biodiversity in New Zealand (Ministry for the Environment; September 2001)
  • New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy (New Zealand Government; February 2000)
  • A National Policy Statement on “significance” in s.6(c) – The Best Practicable Option (Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc; January 1998)
  • Progress Toward Achievement of Environment Waikato's Regional Policy Statement Objectives: Biodiversity and Natural Heritage (Environment Waikato; May 2007)
  • Weaving resilience into our working lands: future roles for native plants on private land (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, June 2001)
  • Weaving Resilience into our Working Lands: Recommendations for the future roles of native plants (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, June 2002)
  • Weaving resilience into our working lands: Summary of submissions (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, June 2002)