Biodiversity
The
"multi-word" biodiversity means the overall diversity of our native ecosystems
and species. It comes from the words
- biological meaning anything that has life and
- diversity meaning the number of different types of things.
 Biodiversity means the overall diversity of our native ecosystems, such as forests |
It could be the number of insects on a tree, the number of trees in a forest or the number of forests in the world or the number of worlds in the universe - who knows!
The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy aims
- to maintain and restore a full range of natural habitats and ecosystems in a healthy functioning state
- to maintain and restore viable populations of all indigenous species across their natural range
- to maintain the genetic resources of introduced species that are important to New Zealand for economic, biological and cultural reasons.
This is a national strategy with a 20-year time frame and nearly 150 recommended actions. It has been developed so that all people in New Zealand can work together on maintaining our biodiversity.