DOC's work with Leonohebe cupressoides
Past conservation efforts
These have focussed on:
- Surveying known populations.
- Identifying new populations and trying to protect them.
- Establishing new plants in the wild.
- Research-by-management trials focussing on the effects of grazing annimals, and monitoring natural regeneration.
Recovery Plan in action
While past conservation efforts have helped understand Leonohebe cupressoides' ecology, there are still areas of uncertainty. These include rates of turnover and factors that limit the growth of new plants.
A recovery plan, approved in 2000, sets in place steps to promote recovery of the species.
The long-term vision of this plan is:
"To ensure viable populations of Leonohebe cupressoides are restored in the wild throughout the natural range of this species."