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΢��ҕ�l is committed to improving biodiversity on campus and have a plan to make it happen. The ΢��ҕ�l Biodiversity Plan 2022 - 2025 describes targets and actions to improve biodiversity. These include:

• Improve plant diversity: include a diverse range of plants in new plantings
• Improve bird populations: focus on planting bird-friendly plants and predator control
• Improve stream life: focus is on stormwater treatment to benefit invertebrates and fish
• Improve cryptic biodiversity: microbes, fungi and invertebrates will benefit from unmanaged areas of native plantings
• Improve conditions for Taonga species
• Enhance Ki uta ki tai (connections between mountains and sea)

Learn more about our biodiversity research, teaching and other activities by exploring Goal 15 (Life on Land) in ΢��ҕ�l's committment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Learn more about our biodiversity journey in the ΢��ҕ�l Biodiversity Plan 2022-2025 below. See also a previous iteration here: ΢��ҕ�l Biodiversity Plan 2019 - 2024.

΢��ҕ�l is a signatory of the Nature Positive Universities Pledge and was recently made a finalist in the Green Gown Awards Australasia for our Nature Positive initiatives.

Have you heard the news? A Kārearea/ New Zealand falcon has been seen on campus! As a taonga species and the only remaining endemic bird of prey in ΢��ҕ�l, the Kārearea plays an important role as a top predator. Find out more about this incredible bird with Dr Sara Kross, falcon expert from the School of Biological Sciences.

For any enquiries about biodiversity at ΢��ҕ�l, please contact the Biodiversity Projects Coordinator, Seamus Moran.