International Year of Biodiversity factsheet (PDF, 497K)
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity which celebrates life on Earth and the value of biodiversity for everyone’s lives.
DOC, in partnership with UNESCO, NIWA, and Forest & Bird, ran a photo competition to celebrate biodiversity. Winners will be announced during Conservation Week 2010 (12-19 September).
Tell world leaders why biodiversity matters to you, what you want them to do about its loss, and what you are doing to enhance biodiversity.
All life on Earth depends upon species, ecosystems and natural resources. But the world is facing a global extinction crisis which threatens not only the natural environment but mankind itself.
Biodiversity is the diversity of life on Earth. Find out about the different elements of biodiversity - ecological, species and genetic.
New Zealand was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans. This remarkable isolation meant plants and animals have evolved into distinctive species, found nowhere else in the world.
New Zealand’s natural living space is New Zealand’s biological wealth.
Our natural living space is core to who we are as New Zealanders. Protecting the environment our unique animals and plants live in is an investment in every New Zealander's future.
Find out where to find more information.
Find out about events taking place for the International Year of Biodiversity.
Students at South Westland Area School have shown the world how important biodiversity is to them by entering outstanding posters in DOC’s biodiversity poster competition. View the winning entries.
Sirocco the kakapo - Spokesbird website
Annie Wheeler - awheeler@doc.govt.nz
Shelly Biswell - sbiswell@doc.govt.nz