✨ Biological Heritage Challenge Details
292 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 12 31 JANUARY 2014
Schedule 4: New Zealand’s Biological Heritage: Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho
1. Objective
1.1 This Challenge will protect and manage our biodiversity, improve our biosecurity and enhance our resilience to harmful organisms.
2. Funding
2.1 The Science Board may allocate no more than $63.7 million (excl GST) for up to 10 years for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage: Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho and no more than $25.8 million (excl GST) for the first five years.
3. Specific eligibility criteria
3.1 To be eligible for funding under this Challenge the applicant must provide a proposal for research, science, and technology, or related activities that:
(a) addresses all or most of the “themes” in the table below; and
(b) is directed towards meeting the “outcome statements” in the table below:
| Themes | Outcome statements |
|---|---|
| Discovery and characterisation | New Zealand’s indigenous and introduced biodiversity are sufficiently understood across a range of scales and knowledge systems to inform the design of a world-leading system for prioritising biosecurity and biodiversity management. |
| Interdependencies, functions, ecosystems and resilience | Management for resilience of our indigenous and introduced ecosystems is supported by understanding the linkages between biodiversity, evolution, ecosystem function and services, mātauranga Māori and environmental and economic pressures. |
| Mitigation and restoration | New Zealand has diverse and vibrant indigenous and introduced ecosystems across a range of scales. Responses to economic and environmental drivers (threats and risks) are balanced to support kaitiakitanga and ensure long-term sustainability. |
| Detection, measurement and assessment | New Zealand has quantitative and qualitative measurement and assessment tools, integrated across the biosecurity and biodiversity domains and consistent with international best practice/standards, to enable the understanding, monitoring and evaluation of status and trends of biodiversity and the impacts of invasive organisms. |
| Social partnerships and licence | Social partnerships with motivated and enabled citizens, scientists, kaitiaki and decision makers are built, providing the basis for a social licence to apply new management methodologies, tools, technologies and solutions. |
3.2 If the applicant can better meet the Challenge objective with different theme(s) and/or outcome(s) it may in its proposal vary a theme or outcome providing it gives reasons for such change. The Science Board will decide whether such change better enables the Challenge objective to be met.
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