Objectives

• Sustain ecosystem services
• Increase indigenous biodiversity
• Restore areas of ecological value.

How we’ll achieve this

We"ll:

• safeguard the life-supporting capacity (mauri) of indigenous and taoka species’ habitats
• protect important ecological areas
• protect areas of importance to Kāi Tahu
• take a landscape-scale approach to protecting ecosystems and increasing biodiversity
• reduce wastewater overflows
• reduce polluting discharges to the land, air and water
• draw on science, mātauraka Māori and good environmental practice
• use the best technology available for managing pests.

Initial actions

Managing Pests

• Develop and implement an integrated landscape-scale pest management plan.

Ecosystem Health Boost

• Identify and protect areas of ecological significance, establish biodiversity and ecosystem health measures and establish integrated planning for key environmental areas including air, water and soil standards.

Productive Landscapes

• Work with landowners to integrate biodiversity into productive environments and to help sustain ecosystem services.

Indicators of change

• Air quality, with performance benchmarked against National Environmental Standards (NES) air standard of PM₁₀
• Soil contamination assessments, with performance benchmarked against the National Environmental Standards (NES) standards
• The water quality of Dunedin’s lakes and rivers, including coastal and recreational risk, using Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) measures
• Dunedin’s natural ecosystems benefitting from pest management (Department of Conservation measure)
• Biodiversity and ecosystem health (new measure).