Biodiversity Strategy

Although this document has been developed by the Council and contains actions for the Council, to achieve good biodiversity outcomes the help of the community is also needed. We will have to all work together if we are to successfully maintain and protect the native biodiversity of the City.

Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan

Biodiversity Report 2007

Local Biodiversity Action Plan 2008

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Documents - Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

	Front cover (Size 127K)
	Contents - pg 1-2 (Size 137K)
	Introduction - pg 3-6 (Size 232K)
	Policy and Legislation - pg 7-12 (Size 1282K)
	Vision - pg 13 (Size 105K)
	Goals for Waitakere's Biodiversity - pg 14 (Size 128K)
	Waitakere's Biodiversity - pg 15 - 20 (Size 246K)
	Threats to Biodiversity - pg 21 (Size 140K)
	Analysis of current Biodiversity Management - pg 22 - 23 (Size 228K)
	Roles of Agencies in Managing Biodiversity - pg 24 - 25 (Size 126K)
	Action Plan - pg 26 - 32 (Size 270K)
	Photographic References (Size 24K)
	Back Cover (Size 101K)

Biodiversity Report 2007

This report provides a status quo assessment of Waitakere's biodiversity and highlights the current biodiversity management programmes. The report has been prepared as part of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives project for biodiversity known as the Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) project www.iclei.org/lab.

Waitakere is one of 20 cities worldwide to join this pilot project. Other city councils participating in the project are:

Barcelona City Council (Spain)
City of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
City of Bonn (Germany)
City of Cape Town (South Africa)
City of Edmonton (Canada)
City of Johannesburg (South Africa)
City of Joondalup (Australia)
City of Nagoya (Japan)
City of Tilburg (Netherlands)
City of Zagreb (Croatia)
eThekwini Municipality (South Africa)
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (South Africa)
lle de France (France)
King County (U.S.A)
Leicester City Council (England)
Liverpool City Council (Australia)
Municipality of Walvis Bay (Namibia)
Sao Paulo City Hall (Brazil)
Seoul Metropolitan Government (South Korea)
Waitakere City Council (New Zealand)

To download the report click on the link below.

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Biodiversity Report 2007 (Size 2592K)

Local Biodiversity Action Plan 2008

This Action Plan, adopted in December 2008, reports on and updates the 2006 Action Plan attached to the Biodiversity Strategy above.

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Local Biodiversity Action Plan 2008 (Size 1810K)