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"Biodiversity continues to decline globally, but nowhere is the loss more
pronounced than in Aotearoa New Zealand, which has the highest proportion of
threatened indigenous species in the world.
We hope our Eco-index initiative, which today launches an online ecosystem
restoration map for New Zealand, will help change the story for nature.
Planning large-scale biodiversity restoration projects – whether they’re run by
NGOs, governments or Indigenous groups – requires high-quality data.
Despite the rising demand, however, accessible biodiversity data have not been
collected regularly or consistently. There are also challenges around the
standardisation, storage and sharing of such data.
This means it has been difficult to quantify native ecosystems and biodiversity
at scale. Cost-benefit analyses often have information gaps, meaning
prioritising the various options for restoration projects can become
guesswork."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
