Biodiversity
Managing New Zealand's unique biodiversity ...
- Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources
1st January 1997
For each major plant type issues like conservation activities and threats to conservation and sustainable use are discussed. National programmes and policies (regarding conservation and sustainable use of resources), and the legislation underpinning them, is also discussed. The paper ends by briefly dealing with the issues of international co-operation, national needs and opportunities, and proposals for a global plan of action. - New Zealand Country Report for the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture [523K PDF]
2007
This is the second country report on the state of plant genetic resources in New Zealand. The report has been prepared for the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a division of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. - Convention on Biological Diversity Resources
2nd July 2001
New Zealand has ratified the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). To meet CBD case study requirements and assess where New Zealand is at with regard to the CBD agriculture and forestry work plan, MAF commissioned Ecosystems Ltd. to compile:- a database of 6,720 relevant research abstracts (predominately New Zealand) on the key subjects above; and
- a report titled "Towards Safeguarding New Zealand's Agricultural Biodiversity: Research gaps, Priorities and Potential Case Studies."
- Regional Implementation of the Biosecurity Act 1993
3rd February 1995
Five regions were examined in this study, which aimed to show some of the different approaches to Regional Pest Management Strategies are implemented and funded, the rationale behind these different approaches and the variations between councils (from the perspective of what the Biosecurity Act intends). - Towards Safeguarding New Zealand's Agricultural Biodiversity: Research Gaps, Priorities and Potential Case Studies
23rd February 2002
Maintaining productivity is essential to minimise conversion of 'natural' habitats to agricultural land, but there is also an important emphasis on integrating use with biodiversity protection within agricultural landscapes so that a genuinely ecologically sustainable but highly productive harvest is taken.
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