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Systematic, transparent and repeatable species prioritisation
(Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand., 2009-08)
New Zealand has a very large number of threatened and endangered species. The resources available to tackle the challenges of managing biodiversity are limited. The efforts applied, have to date proved insufficient to ...
Are we failing on weeds?
(Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand., 2009-02)
New Zealand has several systems in place to prevent entry, eradicate, contain,
provide surveillance of weeds. The success of those efforts is far less than some of
us hope for and the numbers of naturalised weedy plants, ...
Public perceptions of New Zealand's environment: 2016
(EOS Ecology, 2016)
The eighth survey (the series having begun in 2000) of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken over February–March 2016. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model ...
Conservation and sustainable use of New Zealand flora: on non-conservation land
(Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation. Lincoln University, 2001-03)
Costs, effectiveness, evaluation of biodiversity projects
Conservation requires hard choices.‘We cannot preserve everything ... The laws of economics apply todiversity’ Weitzman 1992.Failure to use economic analyses will result in less conservationgains than are potentially ...
Success and cost effectiveness of multi-species projects
Species loss is widely recognised as one of the most seriousenvironmental problems nations face. Of 142 nations compared against a wide variety of indicatorsNew Zealand is considered to be performing worst in terms ...
Vegetation protection: some economic analysis
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 1992-08)
Possums, a native of Australia, were first liberated in New Zealand in 1858 to provide a
source of fur. Today they number about 70 million and few parts of the country have not
been invaded by possums. Possums have well ...
Perceptions of conservation and the Department of Conservation: interim findings from the 2008 Environmental Perceptions Survey
(Lincoln University. Environment Society and Design Division, 2008-06)
Measuring the success and cost effectiveness of New Zealand multiple-species projects to the conservation of threatened species
(Elsevier, 2005-05)
Much attention is focused on conservation efforts to protect and recover threatened species. As part of these efforts, many projects attempt to manage sites containing populations of more than one threatened species. ...
Are predator-proof fences the answer to New Zealand's terrestrial faunal biodiversity crisis?
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2011)
A review of pest-exclusion fences throughout New Zealand shows that the goals of fence projects are frequently not achieved and cost-benefit analyses often do not adequately quantify ongoing costs. The creation of these ...