Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 17 March
19:30
Location
M101, Murphy Building, VUW
Speaker: John Leathwick, DSc, Conservation Science Consultant. In two recent science papers John worked with co-authors to raise fundamental questions about how best to achieve New Zealand’s biodiversity goals. In his first paper he explored the current emphasis on eradicating just four introduced predators (Predator Free 2050), highlighting both the considerable technical challenges that this poses, and the need to also consider the impacts of other major biodiversity pressures including browsers and weeds. In his second paper he demonstrated how a systematic ecosystem-focused approach to biodiversity management, first proposed by NZ’s Geoff Kelly in 1980, could be efficiently implemented using contemporary conservation planning tools. He argued that such an approach would be much more likely to achieve NZ’s biodiversity goals than current predator-focused management. His talk will explore various aspects of these two papers.
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