The Department of Conservation is coordinating implementation of the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.

Enquiries about the Strategy should be made to the Conservation Policy Division, Department of Conservation:

Phone: 64 4 471 3061
Fax: 64 4 471 3130
Email: info@biodiversity.govt.nz

Copies of the Strategy can be obtained by emailing: science.publications@doc.govt.nz

If you are from another Party to the Convention and are seeking information to assist in your country's implementation of the CBD, and the information you are seeking is not here, please send an email with specific questions to the CHM focal point, who will be able to either provide the information or direct you to another source for the information.

Seven other government agencies are implementing parts of the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy:

Ministry for the Environment

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Ministry of Fisheries

Ministry of Research, Science and Technology

Foundation for Research, Science and Technology

Te Puni Kokiri/Ministry of Maori Development

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

To find out about the Ministerial Advisory Committee's report - "Bio-what?" - on addressing the effects of private land management on indigenous biodiversity see:

Bio-what? report

For information on the Convention on Biological Diversity see:

The Secretariat of the CBD