The New Zealand government wants to increase its collection and publication of environmental research data over the next four years as part of an updated national plan to protect the country’s biodiversity.
The Biodiversity Action Plan 2016-2020 also aims to develop “an agreed 20-year conservation and environmental science roadmap” of research needed to shape government policies.
Launching the plan, conservation minister Maggie Barry said it was “a targeted update” of a national strategy published in 2000 that outlined NZ’s commitment to meet global targets set by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
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