Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
2 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: New Zealand (14)
National programme paying contractors to eliminate invasive wilding conifers from ~180,000 ha/year; wilding conifers remove up to 40% of catchment water. NZD …
DOC manages the 10,201 ha Kopuatai Peat Dome, New Zealand's largest unmodified restiad bog and a Ramsar site since 1989, whose peat …
New Zealand's ETS has included post-1989 forests since 2008; ~349,000 ha registered (2021) earn NZUs for carbon sequestration. In 2024, 11.5 M …
After the 2010–11 Canterbury earthquakes, the Crown bought out roughly 8,000 liquefaction-hit properties along the Ōtākaro/Avon River and is converting the 600-hectare …
Facing rising nitrogen from pastoral farms, Waikato Regional Council capped and allocated tradeable nitrogen-discharge allowances across Lake Taupō's catchment, backed by an …
Since 2008, the Rowallan Alton Māori Incorporation has kept 738 ha of temperate rainforest near Fiordland National Park standing, financed by Plan …
A 10-year, NZ$20 million partnership (2013-2023) between dairy co-operative Fonterra and New Zealand's Department of Conservation enhanced 5,213 ha across 5 priority …
New Zealand’s NZD 1.185 billion pandemic-recovery conservation programme (2020–2025): 225 DOC-led projects employed 11,000+ workers for invasive species control and habitat restoration. …
A Wellington City Council-backed programme eliminated ship rats, Norway rats, stoats and weasels from the 1,086 ha Miramar Peninsula by November 2023, …
Auckland Council's 2019 Urban Ngahere (urban forest) Strategy targets 30% average canopy across urban Auckland by 2050, with every local board above …
Since 2015 a NZ$40M council/government scheme has bought nitrogen reductions from Lake Rotorua landowners toward a 320 t/yr cut; the lake is …
Since 1977, New Zealand's QEII National Trust has registered voluntary, perpetual covenants protecting over 187,000 hectares of private land — forest, wetland …
Auckland's water utility Watercare is regenerating 2,000+ hectares of native forest in the Hūnua and Waitākere Ranges — source of ~84% of …
Since 2014 New Zealand's national biodiversity-offsetting guidance has let developers offset unavoidable habitat loss through resource consents aiming for 'no net loss' …
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