Biodiversity Management

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Online Life Sciences Encyclopedia

New full text access to this publication from ScienceDirect.

Information from Auckland Council's environment teams, including biodiversity and biosecurity.

Geospatial maps for the Auckland region. Add map layers to access different property data.

Australian and New Zealand herbaria house over eight million plant, algae and fungi specimens. Herbarium specimens are an important resource for research on the Australasian flora and provide a permanent record of the occurrence of a species at a particular place and time. The AVH provides access to the collecting data associated with these specimens.

The wonders of nature made available by the BBC's vast archive of wildlife footage online.

Information about the Department of Conservation's work in biological diversity.

Biodiversity site from Australia's Dept. of the Environment & Energy. Includes links to reports.

Information about Biosecurity legislation in New Zealand

An introduction to the principles of taxonomy. Online tutorial.

This site contains every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts. All told there are more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images.

Information about the protection of New Zealand's natural and historic heritage, how and where you can enjoy public conservation places and how to get involved in conservation.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) was established on 1 October 2009 through the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2009. It is a statutory office that is housed within the Ministry for the Environment, under the Secretary for the Environment.

The official website of Forest and Bird New Zealand.

Managed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, this database aims to increase awareness about invasive alien species and to facilitate effective prevention and management activities.

A place where you can share what you see in nature, set up citizen science and community-based monitoring projects and meet other nature watchers.

North American site but very useful for looking at the characteristics of invasive plants and animals.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species.
To access the publications and species statistics use the drop-down box under About.

State-of-the-art scientific appraisal of the condition and trends in the world’s ecosystems and the services they provide, as well as the scientific basis for action to conserve and use them sustainably.

Guidelines, consultation documents, information papers, reports, pamphlets and information sheets.

The home page of the publishers of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology plus other useful links.

This website provides information about native plants and their conservation in New Zealand. The Network's main focus is the nationally threatened plants and plant communities that require conservation management for their continued survival.

Reports available online.

Australian site that offers high-quality colour diagnostic images and information on pests and diseases along with a number of comparative native species.

The official website of this society that seeks to protect and conserve the natural environment in the Waitakere Ranges as a remarkable place of high value, for its ecosystems, for the beauty of its rugged landscape, its ocean and harbour shores and for its native plant and animal life, for its own sake, for its value to people and for the generations to come

Information on the current initiatives that the World Wildlife Fund are engaged in.