The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy (NZBS) funded programmes for land and freshwater include:

Nine programmes for protecting indigenous biodiversity on land and freshwater, on both private land and conservation land.

Two biosecurity programmes to protect indigenous and valuable introduced biodiversity.

One programme to support Matauranga Maori (traditional Maori knowledge about biodiversity) and increase Maori participation in biodiversity conservation.

One programme to increase awareness of and access to data and information about New Zealand's terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity, the Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (TFBIS) Programme.