2050 Ecological Vision for Banks Peninsula/Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū
In 2050 native biodiversity is thriving across Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula. Native ecosystems underpin our resilient communities, recognising that when nature thrives, people thrive.
Ka ora whenua, ka ora te tāngata.
We have created an “ecological road map” to realise this vision. It comprises 10 interconnected ecological goals, which have been developed with the community and are underpinned by science. Together, these will result in landscape transformation for both the native ecosystems across Banks Peninsula and the communities who live, work, visit, play, and recreate here.
These goals are aspirational but achievable, and great progress is already being made.
- Protect all remaining old-growth forest remnants
- Protect the full range of rare and naturally uncommon ecosystems
- Protect streams and coastal seas through better land management
- Establish four large biodiversity hubs of indigenous vegetation
- Enhance native biodiversity within the rural environment
- Increase the abundance of rare and uncommon native species
- Re-establish populations of locally extinct plant and animal species
- Eliminate or control pest animals to protect native biodiversity
- Eliminate or control ‘transformer’ ecological weeds
- Improve biodiversity habitat corridors between the peninsula, urban Christchurch and the rest of Canterbury
‘Our Vision for Banks Peninsula is an invitation to dream big, and to work tirelessly for a future where our actions today foster the thriving biodiversity of tomorrow.
It is a call to unite in creating a better future. '
Penny Carnaby, former BPCT Chair