Summary
The primary purpose of this report is to assist the Nature Heritage Fund in assessing priorities for legal protection or restoration of indigenous ecosystems in the Auckland Conservancy which are currently on private land.
A secondary purpose is to provide information to DOC staff and other organisations to assist them in making decisions about values and priorities for protecting biodiversity in the Auckland Conservancy. It is noted however that this is a report based on analysis of very broad scale vegetation classes across the conservancy and the best available data at the time of collation. The results of more detailed ecological field surveys and assessment must be used to identify the value of specific sites.
An important result of the work undertaken to produce this report has been the development of a comprehensive GIS system combining ecological survey data from DOC, ARC and district and city councils. The underlying data and GIS Layers will be valuable in providing information which can be used by government agencies, regional and district councils and organisations such as the QE II Trust to develop a co-ordinated approach to biodiversity management and to establish a representative and sustainable protected natural areas system in the Auckland region. To assist this process the aim is to have the data available via a web mapping service from an updateable database. The information can then be kept transparent, current, secure and easily accessible to relevant users.
This report assesses the original extent of terrestrial indigenous ecosystems in each Ecological District (ED) in the Auckland Conservancy, the present extent of those ecosystems, and the extent to which they are protected. It also lists the threatened species and naturally rare ecosystems which are present in each ED. The report also identifies criteria against which all proposals for protection on private land in the Auckland Conservancy can be compared and prioritised and sets out a scoring system with which proposals can be assessed against these criteria. It is however only intended to be a guide to the potential value of a site or to alert staff to potential opportunities. It is not intended to replace site inspections and expert knowledge.
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