Nature and Biodiversity Action & Investment Plan

Together we can value, protect and enhance our natural environment. To achieve this, we have developed a Nature and Biodiversity Action and Investment Plan.

The Nature and Biodiversity AIP helps to deliver on our city vision and the Tauranga Taurikura 2022-2032 draft Environment Strategy. This plan focuses on the Tauranga Taurikura goal to have: Thriving nature and biodiversity at the heart of our communities.

We live in a beautiful city with many opportunities to explore nature in our own backyard. Sadly, that backyard is under pressure, with only 3% of land cover remaining in native vegetation.

We know that looking after our natural environment is important to our communities, and we’re listening.

We want to harness the love of nature within our community and turn it into action, where people are positively engaged with the natural environment and working together to celebrate, protect and enhance our natural environment.

We’re working with our mana whenua partners and others to seek new and innovative ways to take action to protect and enhance our natural environment including:

• Incorporating more tree planting in our designs for roads, stormwater and public areas.
• Protecting mature and maturing trees.
• Undertaking pest management on council land.
• Enhancing how we look after areas in our city that are recognised as being special ecological areas and Significant Natural Areas.
• Looking to international best practice to ensure we are enabling nature to flourish throughout the city, including having healthy, diverse, connected and accessible greenspace.