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Proposed ETS changes miss opportunity to restore our native ecosystems

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) needs to financially incentivise restoring native ecosystems to simultaneously sequester carbon, provide habitats for our endangered species and improve resilience to climate change. The currently proposed changes are narrowly restricted to removing exotic forest plantations.  This is a significant missed opportunity.

Nature-based solutions as the centrepiece of New Zealand’s climate change response.

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on
Nature-based solutions to climate change will deliver multiple benefits by sequestering carbon, building resilience to changes in sea level and weather patterns and restoring our degraded terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems.  We need to urgently develop ways to incentive nature-based solutions.  Without inextricably linking this high priority work to our climate change response we are risking our future economic and personal wellbeing.

Changing our collision course: Conservation Week 2021 reflections

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on
It's Conservation Week (4th to the 12th September) and there are some excellent events to acknowledge, celebrate and allow you to participate in some of the wonderful mahi that is occurring across Aotearoa in the ongoing battle to protect and restore our precious natural environment. 

Sadly this mahi is largely a rearguard effort,  which will make a positive difference, but not be enough to change the overall path. We are currently on a collision course - destroying the natural ecosystems that our economy relies on. 

 

Tragedies of the Horizon

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on

More action to reverse climate change is excellent but let’s also act fast to restore nature – last weeks launch of the Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures  (TNFD) is a potential accelerant.  The objective is to shift future global financial flows away from nature-negative outcomes to nature-positive outcomes.   The TNFD estimates that more than half of the world's economic output is moderately or highly dependent on nature.  The health of our ecosystems on which we, and our economies, depend on is deteriorating more rapidly than ever.  The time to act is now. 

 

Planetary Biodiversity loss

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on

The World Economic Forum estimates that more than 50% of the world's economy is moderately or highly dependent on nature. Yet nature loss is now a planetary emergency.  Humanity has already wiped out 83% of...

Forest Ringlet Butterfly / Pepe Pouri

Posted by Gael Ogilvie on

Learn about the lesser-known endangered geckos, skinks, moths, butterflies and plants featured on our products.   Forest Ringlet Butterfly Pepe Pouri The beautiful native forest ringlet butterfly Dodonidia helmsii is rare and found only in...