Final report of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biodiversity and Private Land

August 2000, Ref. ME380

This is the final report of the Ministerial Advisory Committee appointed to look at the part private land management decisions play in the decline of New Zealand's indigenous biodiversity. It revises the preliminary report, Bio-what?, following extensive public consultation.

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Issue 1: The way forward: continuing progress vs. a final settlement
Issue 2: Goal: targeted vs. comprehensive
Issue 3: Tools: carrots vs. sticks
Issue 4: Funding: ecological prioritisation vs. capacity building
Issue 5: Institutional arrangements: top down vs. bottom up
Issue 6: Property: rights and responsibilities

Part 3: Key preliminary proposals revisited

National Accord(s)
Local accords
National policy statement (NPS)
Non-statutory good practice guidance
Information
Interface between the Forests Act 1949 and RMA

Part 4: New Proposals - A vision of quality biodiversity management

Services: What needs to be done?
Structure: who should be involved?
Style: getting the message across

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Ministerial Advisory Committee consultation meetings

Appendix 2: Towards sizing the problem: Indigenous forest outside Crown conservation lands

Appendix 3: Biodiversity loss - immediate and underlying causes

Appendix 4: Conceptual (regularity risk assessment model)

Appendix 5: Analysis of NPS benefit

Appendix 6: Scope of a National Policy Statement

Appendix 7: Matters to be addressed through non-statutory guidance

Appendix 8: The Policy Development Cycle: Scope of Policy and Guidelines

Appendix 9: Information issues

Appendix 10: Forests Act/Resource Management Act interface

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Final report of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biodiversity and Private Land

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