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biodiversity

Tim Orlando-Reep

Are Biodiversity Credits an Opportunity for Sheep and Beef Farmers?

Farmers show strong interest in biodiversity credits, but high administrative costs and unclear financial incentives remain challenges. This report by Tim Orlando-Reep recommends simplifying measurement and updating carbon sequestration tables.
  • December 2025
  • Kellogg 54
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Nick Vernon

Enhancing Biodiversity on Canterbury Dairy Farms to Improve Our Social License to Operate

This report by Nick Vernon, examines how biodiversity actions, community expectations, and stakeholder involvement intersect to build trust, improve environmental results, and support long-term sustainability.
  • December 2025
  • Kellogg 54
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Cam Walker

Cameron Walker

Evaluating the Potential of Increased Carbon Stocks and Biodiversity Outcomes to Fund Native Vegetation Management on NZ Properties

Cameron’s report examines whether monetised benefits from increased carbon sequestration or positive biodiversity outcomes could offset the costs of pest management and protection of native vegetation in NZ. The findings inform policy development for achieving national climate and biodiversity commitments.
  • July 2025
  • Kellogg 53
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Anita Fleming

Foraging New Horizons: Levers of Sustainable Innovation in the NZ Food and Fibre Sector

This report aims to identify key inflexion points for New Zealand agriculture to adopt sustainable practices, enhance market opportunities, and drive systemic transformation through collaborative value chains.
  • 2024
  • Kellogg 52
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Jeremy Lawson

Jeremy Lawson

A review of wetlands and other methods of reducing P and N loss into waterways.

In the last 30 years New Zealand agriculture has increased nitrogen use by over 600% from 62,000t to 452,000tonnes and cracks are starting to appear. Anthropogenic inputs from intensive agriculture and poor practices can be harmful to the health of our waterways, precious wetlands rich in biodiversity and known for their many environmental benefits including filtering nutrients and carbon sequestration have been degraded or drained over time.
  • 2021
  • Kellogg 44
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Catherine Dickson

National Treasure: Native biodiversity on-farm

Sheep and beef farms are home to a quarter of New Zealand’s total national native vegetation. This means that sheep and beef property owners make up the second largest native biodiversity land holders, second only to Public Conservation land. As such, a large part of New Zealand’s conservation effort is in their hands. Many landowners have already taken steps to protect and enhance their slice of native bush. With appreciation for what has already been achieved it encourages more progress to be made by that person and those around them.
  • 2020
  • Kellogg 41
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Dwayne Cowin

Is it possible to enhance environmental protection on a farm without sacrificing all your farm profits.

Environment protection to some degree is something that every sheep and beef farmer in the country is going to have to either deal with currently, or sometime in the near future. The degree of environmental protection will depend on the regions location and also the issues relevant to every individual farm, but it would be … Read more

  • 2017
  • Kellogg 34
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Stu Kneebone

Maintaining and enhancing biodiversity on the land and the opportunities this poses for farmers.

Firstly, when I talk about indigenous biodiversity, I am referring to biodiversity that is native to NZ, much of which is found nowhere else in the world.  Despite some views to the contrary, biodiversity is very much a part of all of our lives. It is in our back yards, our farms and our native … Read more

  • 2015
  • Kellogg 31
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Southgate Paula, A

Cities and biodiversity

The project has three related parts: 1. A global perspective: an overview, based on current global literature, of the importance of cities and the land around them in preserving and enhancing biodiversity worldwide. 2. The New Zealand situation: an investigation of some of the current thinking, research and practice to enhance biodiversity in urban areas … Read more

  • 2007
  • Kellogg 23
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Hunter, James

Native bush in Central Hawke’s Bay: is there a future without rules?

The protection of New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity of New Zealand is a significant national issue. Central Hawke’s Bay (CHB) has not escaped comments about the continuing loss and degradation of native bush, and apparently slow rate of protection. At the same time there is an increasing awareness within farming circles of the value of these … Read more

  • 2001
  • Kellogg 17
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Lynch Wendy

Restoring small wetlands on private farms

This paper has been researched by the author as part of the 1995 Kellogg Scholarship. The aim is to encourage anyone who has any remaining wet patches of land to consider creating a wetland or pond for indigenous flora and fauna. Restoring habitats for our native plants and animals and plants is a better alternative … Read more

  • 1995
  • Kellogg 11
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Sandra Goudie

Wildfowl versus indigenous species

Is there a conflict? Ask around and nobody knows. In no other time of New Zealand's history is the paucity of information so highlighted as at the present. The need for such information is predominantly to satisfy the demands of the Resource Management Act (RMA), with one such example being a water right application for Swamp Restoration. This was a joint application by the Department of Conservation (DOC) and Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Council.
  • 1994
  • Kellogg 12
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Brophy, Patrick J.

A national conservation order on Lake Wairarapa: a farmer’s view point

This report is a response to the proposal of a National Conservation Order on the waters of Lake Wairarapa. The opinions and requirements of the farming community of the region have been researched and are reflected in this manuscript. This report will review some parts of the pertinent legislation and commentaries on these by others … Read more

  • 1986
  • Kellogg 7
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