Biodiversity is an overarching term used to describe the different plants and animals you find in the environment. In New Zealand it is generally used to describe native plants and animals.
Waikato Regional Council supports landowners, community groups, iwi, and individuals to maintain, protect and restore native plants, animals and ecosystems across the Waikato region.
Every little bit helps – you can help by participating in a local restoration project, joining a community group, trapping pests in your backyard or farm, planting plants in your garden to attract native birds and/or adopting land use practices that promote ecological resilience and biodiversity.
Waikato Regional Council can help with your restoration project by providing advice and/or funding. We work with lots of different individuals, landowners, iwi entities and community groups to provide the help and support best suited for your project or property.
The Waikato region is highly valued for its ecosystems and indigenous biodiversity. In fact, there are some that can only be found in our region.
The Waikato Regional Biodiversity Strategy offers an opportunity to bring people together under a shared vision, with clear goals and coordinated action to protect and restore biodiversity in the region at a landscape scale.
Waikato Regional Council regularly monitors and reports on our region's coastal, freshwater and terrestrial (growing on the land and in the ground) biodiversity.
Our biosecurity activities are a vital component of the national biosecurity system. This system is designed to prevent, mitigate or minimise the impacts of pest species, which can have environmental, social, cultural and economic impacts.
