BRIEF: Ecosystem Restoration guide

Eco-index: Providing new information to guide Ecosystem Restoration

November 2023

We know we need to do more to protect, restore and connect Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity, but where do we start?

Land managers, decision-makers, community environmentalists, and policy-makers are all wrestling with questions such as: where do we start, what do we prioritise, where do we get good data, and whose information do we trust? In the vacuum of information on ecosystem restoration planning at landscape scale, the Eco-index programme is delivering a new ecosystem restoration information service to level up biodiversity decision-making , monitoring and verification across the motu.