Back From The Brink: Biodiversity Information and Journalism
A Scoop Journalism Deep-dive on Biodiversity and the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.
Contents
Scoop Features:
Ian Llewellyn - A Biodiversity Explainer
Scoop and PEP invite you to help decide how we should protect and restore our biodiversity over the next 50 years using
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Also On Scoop:
New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy Discussion Document Launch:
NZ Govt - Government takes action for nature
Environmental Defence Society - EDS Welcomes NZ Biodiversity Strategy Discussion Document
Forest And Bird - Forest & Bird welcomes biodiversity plan - Giant kokopu hotspot discovered on Waiheke Island - Call for more marine protection around Auckland
Earlier Press Releases
New Zealand Government - New National Biodiversity Strategy needed
New Zealand Government - Forest mast significantly boosts breeding of rare kākāriki
New Zealand Government - One Billion Trees Fund supporting indigenous restoration
New Zealand Government - Councils, iwi and DOC unite for conservation
New Zealand Government - International Declaration on Biodiversity
New Zealand Government - Indigenous Biodiversity report released
United Nations - Preserving biodiversity vital to reverse climate change
Forest And Bird - Biodiversity consensus a game-changer for NZ
Robert McLachlan and Steven Alexander Trewick - NZ biodiversity losses match global crisis
NZ Energy and Environment - Jones speaks in favour of gene editing
BusinessDesk - Govt opts for sweeping review of 'underperforming' RMA
University of Canterbury - Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity
Biodiversity Collaborative Group - Collaborative report a breakthrough for biodiversity
Hawke's Bay Regional Council - Learning the ropes – marine pests
Environment and Rec Fishing Coalition - Fishers join environmentalists to save kauri forests
Biodiversity Collaborative Group - Collaborative report a breakthrough for biodiversity
Papers/Reports
David Hall (The Policy Observatory) - The Interwoven World
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - Weaving Resilience into our Working Lands: recommendations for the future roles of native plants
On The Conversation
Duncan McLaren - Exaggerating how much CO can be absorbed by tree planting risks deterring crucial climate action
Steven Alexander Trewick and Steven Alexander Trewick - NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
David Choquenot - Seeing the wood for the trees: Kiwi lead in biodiversity conservation
Steve Morton, Andy Sheppard and Mark Lonsdale - Explainer: what is biodiversity and why does it matter?
Brian Lovett - Is an ‘insect apocalypse’ happening? How would we know?
Tanya Latty and Timothy Lee - How many species on Earth? Why that’s a simple question but hard to answer
Kat Bolstad and Heather Braid - Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
Stuart Reynolds - What happens to the natural world if all the insects disappear?
Stephanie Anderson - Regenerative agriculture can make farmers stewards of the land again
Michael (Mike) Joy and Sylvie McLean - Despite its green image, NZ has world’s highest proportion of species at risk
Georgia Garrard, Nicholas Williams and Sarah Bekessy - Here’s how to design cities where people and nature can both flourish
Bill Bateman, Dale Nimmo, Don Driscoll, Grant Wardell-Johnson, Noel D Preece and Sarah Luxton - Australia’s draft ‘Strategy for nature’ doesn’t cut it. Here are nine ways to fix it
Stephen Woroniecki - George Monbiot Q + A – How rejuvenating nature could help fight climate change
Dustin Marshall and Liz Morris - No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought
Miguel Lurgi - Habitat loss doesn’t just affect species, it impacts networks of ecological relationships
Derek Lynch - Soil is the key to our planet’s history (and future)
Victor Anderson - Biodiversity loss has finally got political – and this means new thinking on the left and the right
Don Driscoll, Desley Whisson, Euan Ritchie, Mike Weston, Raylene Cooke and Tim Doherty - We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis
Sheila R. Colla and Rachel Nalepa - Give bees a chance: We can’t afford to lose our wild native pollinators